integration of
global positioning system (GPS) and
remote sensing
technology in a GIS, the acquisition and
availability of
digital cartographic data in developing
countries,
database design and management, and map
interpretation
and mapmaking. Participants will have the
opportunity to
apply skills and concepts learned during
the workshop in a
final project. All lab sessions will be
held in the
Spatial Outreach Laboratory, which features
state of the art
GIS hardware and software. Information
and registration
materials are now available. [Contact:
Baker at email
perrylb@u.washington.edu]
7. From
Ann
Peton
, Iowa State
[GIS Coordinator]: The
MidAmerica GIS
Symposium Steering Committee and
the Missouri GIS
Advisory Committee cordially invite
you to
participate in the MidAmerica Symposium 2000,
"Solutions for a
New Century," May 14-18, 2000 in
Osage Beach,
Missouri. This symposium will be quite a
bit different
from other GIS conferences you have
attended. It is
planned as a working meeting where
common issues can
be identified, solutions shared and
problems solved.
As part of this approach you will hear
GIS professionals
from across the region and across the
country discuss
how they have encountered and solved
the problems you
are facing today and the ones waiting
around the
corner! The paper presentations will be used
as tools for
establishing issues and generating discussion
among
participants. We start by bringing together
individuals who
work in the same functional disciplines
of the GIS
industry like cadastral mapping, natural
resources,
transportation, and health and social services.
A combination of
facilitated discussions and paper
presentations
will serve to identify common and
sometimes
controversial issues within these groups.
Next, we will use
the issues identified by these groups to
bring together in
facilitated work sessions diverse
segments of these
communities that share the same
issues, even
though they may work in different segments
of the GIS
industry. Finally we will create action groups
within these
segments to generate tasks, goals, and
strategies for
accomplishing those tasks. [Contact: See
Events Part I,
this edition]
B. Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
8. From Bill
Henriques, GIS Coordinator: Registration
for the
satellite broadcast entitled "GIS in Public Health:
Using Mapping
and Spatial Analysis Technologies for
Health
Protection," May 11, 2000, 12:00-2:30 EST is
now available.
More information on the course can be
obtained at the
CDC's Public Health Training Network
site, located
at: http://www.cdc. gov/phtn/gis/gis.htm
[Contact: Bill
at email wdh2@ cdc.gov]
Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
9. Editor: The
National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and
Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), in
conjunction with
the Office for Social Environment and
Health Research
(OSEHR) at West Virginia University,
has produced
Women and
Heart Disease: An Atlas of
Racial and
Ethnic Disparities in Mortality
[See
Web
Sites of
Interest, this edition]. Dr. Michele Casper,
Epidemiologist,
Cardiovascular Health Branch, Division
of Adult and
Community Health, was lead researcher for
CDC and Dr.
Elizabeth Barnett coordinated OSEHR's
collaboration.
The atlas provides critical data on
geographic,
racial, and ethnic inequalities in women's
heart disease
death rates for the five major racial and
ethnic groups.
It was released February 16, 2000.
10. From
David
Williamson
, EPO: The
Program
Committee, 2000
Joint Statistical Meetings, would
appreciate your
assistance in identifying anyone who can
make substantial
contributions to JSM through
computer-oriented,
interactive, otherwise technical
presentations in
the Invited Technical Exhibit (Invited
Poster) Session.
This session has been well-received in
the past and
we'd like to continue the tradition of
outstanding
presentations in the session. The Committee
on Meetings
wishes for participation to be based on a
competition, so
please invite folks with innovative,
technically
oriented ideas to provide us a paragraph on
their proposals.
For example, I've asked David
Kleinbaum, Emory
University, to present his Active Epi
computer
software during this session in August. David
has worked with
Paul Velleman and his company to
develop Active
Epi, an interactive computer module
series teaching
fundamentals of epidemiology and
statistics in
the public health setting. It is modeled after
Paul's Active
Stats software program. [Contact: Please
direct all
correspondence to email jsm2000@cdc.gov]