CFP for GEOMED 2015 in Florence, Italy

The meeting will be held on September 10-12, 2015 in Florence, Italy.

GEOMED 2015 is the IX international, interdisciplinary conference on
spatial statistics, geographical epidemiology and the geographical aspects
of public health. The conference brings together statisticians,
geographers, epidemiologists, computer scientists, and public health
professionals to discuss methods of spatial analysis, as well as present
and debate the results of such analyses.

The first GEOMED conference was held in Rostock (Germany) in 1997 and
since then it has been held in Paris (France) in 1999 and 2001, Baltimore
(USA) in 2003, Cambridge (UK) in 2005, Charleston (USA) in 2009, Victoria
(Canada) in 2011 and Sheffield (UK) in 2013.

A selection of invited/contributed papers will be published in scientific
journals.

website:http://local.disia.unifi.it/geomed2015/

Important deadlines
– April 30, 2015 – Deadline for submission of abstracts
(invited/contributed talk and poster)
– June 1, 2015 – Notification of acceptance of contributed talk and poster
– June 30, 2015 – Deadline for early registration

Invited speakers
The list is up to date to February 3, 2015.
*Miguel A Martinez Beneito – Public Health Research Center of Valencia,
Spain
*Veronica Berrocal – Departmenrt of Biostatistics, University of
Michigan,USA
*Raechel Bianchetti – Michigan State University, USA
*Dolores Catelan – Università di Firenze, Italy
*Frédérique Chammartin – Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute,
Basel, Switzerland
*Peter Congdon – Queen Mary University, UK
*Ana Corberán-Vallet – Universidad de Valencia, Spain
*Rob Deardon – University of Calgary, Canada
*Emanuela Dreassi – Università di Firenze, Italy
*Abdel H El-Shaarawi – The American University in Cairo, Egypt
*Annette Kjær Ersbøll – National Institute of Public Health, University of
Southern Denmark, Denmark
*Christel Faes – University of Hasselt, Belgium
*Alessandro Fassò – Università di Bergamo, Italy
*Francesco Finazzi – University of Bergamo, Italy
*Ori Gudes – University of Curtin, Australia
*Tomas Goicoa – Universidad de Navarra, Spain
*Sue C Grady – Michigan State University, USA
*Niel Hens – Hasselt University, Belguim
*Janine Baerbel Illian – University of St Andrews, UK
*Elias T Krainski – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
*Corrado Lagazio – Università di Genova, Italy
*Andrew Lawson – Medical University of South Carolina, USA
*Duncan Lee – University of Glasgow, UK
*Jon Lee – University of Toronto, USA
*Arika Ligmann-Zielinska – Michigan State University, USA
*Ying C MacNab – University of British Columbia, Canada
*Ravi Maheswaran – School of Health and Related Research, University of
Sheffield, UK
*Sebastian Meyer – University of Zürich, Switzerland
*Gyanendra Pokharel – University of Guelph, Canada
*Marcos Prates – Departamento de Estatistica, UFMG, Brazil
*Eero Pukkala – Finnish Cancer Registry, Finland
*Andrea Riebler – NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norwey
*Rhonda J Rosychuk – University of Alberta, Canada
*Cristina Rueda – Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
*Clive Sabel – Dept. of Geography, University of Bristol, UK
*Sujit Sahu – University of Southampton, UK
*Gavin Shaddick – University of Bath, UK
*Ulf Strömberg – Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Lund University, Sweden
*Toshiro Tango – Center for Medical Statistics, Japan
*Dolores Ugarte – Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
*Penelope Vounatsou – Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel,
Switzerland
*Rasmus Waagepetersen – Aalborg University, Denmark
*Matthew Wang – Dept. of Global Health, School of Public Health, Peking
University, China
*Yu-tzu Wu – Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of
Cambridge, UK

Scientific Committee
Annibale Biggeri – Università di Firenze (Italy)
Charmaine Dean – Western University (Canada)
Emanuela Dreassi – Università di Firenze (Italy)
Maria de Fátima Pina – INEB-Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
Robert Haining – University of Cambridge (UK)
Andrew Lawson – Medical University of South Carolina (USA)
Ying C MacNab – University of British Columbia (Canada)
Ravi Maheswaran – University of Sheffield (UK)
Toshiro Tango – Center for Medical Statistics (Japan)
Maria Dolores Ugarte – Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain)

Organizing Committee
Annibale Biggeri and Emanuela Dreassi
Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni “G. Parenti” (DiSIA)
Università di Firenze Italy

The meeting will be supported by
Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni “G. Parenti” (DiSIA)
Università di Firenze