The International Workshop on Disease Mapping in Low-Resource Settings, held at Lancaster University on 14-15 September 2017, has brought together world-leading experts in epidemiology and statistics to discuss public health challenges in developing countries. The event was organized by Emanuele Giorgi, a CHICAS member, and funded by his MRC Fellowship in Biostatistics. <\/p>\n
The workshop saw researchers from 28 international research institutes – also featuring the World Health Organization – based in 10 different countries, including Ethiopia, Indonesia and South Africa. Eleven invited talks, a networking session, twenty rapid-fire talks and a poster session took place over the two days. The themes covered during the event were: effectively conveying uncertainty to policy makers; how to make maps of disease risk useful for decision making; cutting-edge methods for downscaling of prevalence; ecological mapping; spatio-temporal modelling of disease risk using data from surveillance systems. <\/p>\n
The participants have shown enthusiasm and provided strong positive feedback for this event. This was especially thanks to the well chosen speakers and to the fact that, being on a small scale, it also allowed all participants to better know each other in a more informal context than most conferences. <\/p>\n
Emanuele has now plans to run a second edition of the workshop which he hopes will become an annual regular event under the CHICAS brand. <\/p>\n
Emanuele also acknowledges support from the Lancaster Medical School which significantly contributed to make this event a remarkable success. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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