SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

13.20

Opening registration

14.00-16.00

WORKSHOP 1
Duncan Lee, University of Glasgow, UK
Modelling spatial and spatio-temporal areal unit data in R with CARBayes

Auditorium Mariano Gago

WORKSHOP 2
Allison Lieber, Google, USA
Health Applications of Google Earth Engine

Meeting Room A

16.20-18.20

WORKSHOP 1
Duncan Lee, University of Glasgow, UK
Modelling spatial and spatio-temporal areal unit data in R with CARBayes

Auditorium Mariano Gago

WORKSHOP 2
Allison Lieber, Google, USA
Health Applications of Google Earth Engine

Meeting Room A

08.45-09.00

Opening Session: Welcome to Geomed 2017

AUDITORIUM MARIANO GAGO

09.00-10.40

PARALLEL SESSION 1:
GIS in Public Health I
Auditorium Corino de Andrade

CHAIR: Robert Haining, University of Cambridge, UK

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INVITED SPEAKER
Mapping urban scale air quality using Big Data: accounting for uncertainty
Eun-Hye Enki Yoo, State University of New York, USA

INVITED SPEAKER
A geospatial analysis of factors influencing maternal hospital delivery in rural China: a case study from Sichuan Province
Wang Yu, School of Public Health, Peking University, China

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Urban green spaces in the proximity of residences may reduce the effect of socioeconomic inequalities in the practice of sports among teenage girls
Alexandre Magalhães, i3S/ INEB, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Spatial hotspots of dementia risks: an approach to inform policy
Nasser Bagheri, Research School of Population Health, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Evaluating the impact of residential mobility on health care accessibility for children with birth defects.
Eric Delmelle, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (CaGIS), 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC USA

PARALLEL SESSION 2:
Spatial Health Surveillance I
Auditorium Mariano Gago

CHAIR: Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

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INVITED SPEAKER
Spatio-temporal modelling and probabilistic forecasting of infectious disease counts
Sebastian Meyer, University of Zurich, Switzerland

INVITED SPEAKER
Multivariate Bayesian hierarchical models for the analysis of zoonoses
Ana Corberan-Vallet, University of Valencia, Spain

INVITED SPEAKER
Bayesian surveillance reproduction number for infectious diseases
Chawarat Rotejanaprasert, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Identification of hotspots of rat abundance in a Brazilian slum community using indirect abundance metrics
Poppy Miller, CHICAS, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, UK

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Spatio-temporal modelling of the number of calls to Saúde24 line to assess hospital savings
Paula Simões, CMA - FCT, UNL and ADM- ISEL, IPL, Portugal

11.00-12.40

PARALLEL SESSION 3:
Spatial Health Surveillance II
Auditorium Corino de Andrade

CHAIR: Victor Javier Del Rio Vilas, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, UK

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ORAL COMMUNICATION
Crime victimization and the implications for individual health and wellbeing
Su-Yin Tan, University of Waterloo, Canada

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Spatio-temporal variation of county-level rates of very low birth weight in the United States, 1989—2010
Monica P. Shah, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

INVITED SPEAKER
Statistical inference from infectious disease modelling: guiding rabies control and elimination programmes
Katie Hampson, University of Glasgow, UK

INVITED SPEAKER
An Information-theoretic Portfolio Model for Disease Surveillance Evaluation
Matteo Convertino, University of Minnesota, USA

INVITED SPEAKER
Efforts to integrate evidence: a multi-dimensional challenge
Victor Javier Del Rio Vilas, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, UK

PARALLEL SESSION 4:
Spatial survival and registry data analysis I
Auditorium Mariano Gago

CHAIR: Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

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INVITED SPEAKER
Spatially-explicit Survival Modeling with Discrete Spatial Grouping of Cancer Predictors
Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

INVITED SPEAKER
Joint spatial frailty model for modeling multiple time to events data
Cindy Feng, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

INVITED SPEAKER
A transformation class for spatio-temporal survival data with a cure fraction
Sandra M Hurtado Rua, Cleveland State University, USA

ORAL COMMUNICATION
In My Time of Dying: A Spatial Epidemiological Re-analysis of John Graunt's Observations Made Upon the Bills of Mortality
Olaf Berke, University of Guelph, Canada

INVITED SPEAKER
Bayesian cure-rate survival model with spatially structured censoring
Georgiana Onicescu, Western Michigan University, USA

13.45-14.25

PLENARY SESSION I:
CHAIR: Maria de Fátima de Pina, i3S, Fiocruz, Brazil & Porto University, Portugal

Cholera in London, 1854. Zika in Brazil, 2015
Marília Carvalho, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil

Auditorium Mariano Gago

14.30-16.10

PARALLEL SESSION 5:
Spatial survival and registry data analysis II
Auditorium Corino de Andrade

CHAIR: Annette Ersböll, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

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INVITED SPEAKER
A new approach to small area cancer survival estimation
Susanna Cramb, Cancer Council Queensland, Australia

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Spatial patterns in multiple sclerosis: A case-control study using Danish register data 1971-2013
Kristine Bihrmann, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Acute Myocardial Infarction Via Verde (AMI-VV): A geographical approach to assess its impact on in-hospital mortality
Francesca Fiorentino, CEMBE-Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

INVITED SPEAKER
From politics to mathematics: Exploring optimal air ambulance base locations in Norway using advanced mathematical modeling
Jo Røislien, Department of Medical Statistics, University of Stavanger, Norway

INVITED SPEAKER
Geographical clustering of service goal fulfillment for emergency ambulances in the capital region of Denmark
Annette Kjær Ersböll, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

PARALLEL SESSION 6:
Clustering of temporal trends in space-time disease mapping
Auditorium Mariano Gago

CHAIR: Duncan Lee, University of Glasgow, UK

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INVITED SPEAKER
A multivariate model for estimating the changes in health inequalities across Scotland over time
Eilidh Jack, University of Glasgow, UK

INVITED SPEAKER
Spatio-temporal log-Gaussian Cox processes for public health data
Theresa Smith, University of Bath, UK

INVITED SPEAKER
Understanding the mortality burden of air pollution in Michigan accounting for preferential sampling
Veronica Berrocal, University of Michigan, USA

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Using Hierarchical clustering of timeseries for variable selection in Dengue forecasting
Flavio Codeço Coelho, Getulio Vargas Foundation

ORAL COMMUNICATION
A Bayesian Space-Time Model for Clustering Areal Units based on their Disease Trends
Gary Napier, University of Glasgow

16.50-18.30

PARALLEL SESSION 7:
Data Science applied to Health: Strategies and tools for big data, machine learning and data mining
Auditorium Corino de Andrade

CHAIR: Jorge Magalhães, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz, Brazil

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ORAL COMMUNICATION
Mining big data for environmental epidemiological analyses
Anna Freni-Sterrantino, Imperial College London, UK

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Relative risk estimates from spatial and space-time scan statistics: Are they biased?
Marcos Prates, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

INVITED SPEAKER
Big Data and Healthcare
João Gama, INESC TEC, University of Porto, Portugal

INVITED SPEAKER
Spatial Aspects of Collaborative Demography via Genealogical Data
Ewen Gallic, Université de Rennes, France

INVITED SPEAKER
Anomaly detection in the Brazilian Health Care Payment System
Renato Assunção, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

PARALLEL SESSION 8:
Modifiable areal unit issues and methods
Auditorium Mariano Gago

CHAIR: David Martin, University of Southampton, UK

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INVITED SPEAKER
Multiscale spatiotemporal models for aggregated small area health outcomes
Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Promoting understandingof the  modifiable areal UNIT PROBLEM IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY WITH DYNAMIC GEOVISUALIZATION
Brittany Krzyzanowski, University of Minnesota

ORAL COMMUNICATION
The effects of spatial resolution in disease mapping: A simulation study
Garyfallos Konstantinoudis, University of Bern, Switzerland

INVITED SPEAKER
Using Change of Support (COSP) approach in disease mapping: an application to mapping malaria in low transmission settings
Victor Alegana, Worldpop group, University of Southampton

INVITED SPEAKER
Investigating aggregation effects in small area health data using synthetic microdata and automated zone design
David Martin, University of Southampton, UK

09.00-10.40

PARALLEL SESSION 9:
Social networks and spatial epidemiology: tools, opportunities and challenges
Auditorium Corino de Andrade

CHAIR: Renato Assunção, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

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INVITED SPEAKER
On the promises, challenges and risks of Pokémon Go and similar geosocial (location-based) exergames
Maged Nabih Kamel Boulos, International Journal of Health Geographics, UK

INVITED SPEAKER
Support Vector Subset Scan for Spatial Pattern Detection
Dylan Fitzpatrick, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Going beyond with social network data: from disease accounting to identification of risk zones
Renato Assunção, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Developing a web-based survey application to collect contextually-relevant geographic data with exposure times
Abby E. Rudolph, Boston University School of Public Health, USA

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Georeferenced Twitter data to estimate the temporal variation of the density of people in each sample area in Madrid using GIS technology.
Francisco Javier Escobar Martínez, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain

PARALLEL SESSION 10:
Modelling climate-sensitive disease I
Auditorium Mariano Gago

CHAIR: Rachel Lowe, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

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INVITED SPEAKER
The climatic constraints on the present and future global spread of dengue and Zika
Oliver Brady, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

INVITED SPEAKER
Dengue spatial diffusion in Brazil. How far will this go? Will zika follow the same steps?
Christovam Barcellos, Fiocruz, Brazil

INVITED SPEAKER
Google Earth Engine: Health Applications of Google's Cloud Platform for Big Earth Data
Allison Lieber, Google, USA

INVITED SPEAKER
Use of GEE for climate, environmental and disease modelling
Pietro Ceccato, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, USA

INVITED SPEAKER
Spatial-temporal analysis of climate factors effects on hospitalization due to falls
Carla Oliveira, i3S, Porto University, Portugal

11.00-12.40

PARALLEL SESSION 11:
Modelling climate-sensitive disease II
Auditorium Corino de Andrade

CHAIR: Pietro Ceccato, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, USA

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INVITED SPEAKER
Probabilistic dengue predictions based on ensemble seasonal climate forecasts
Rachel Lowe, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK and Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGLOBAL), Spain

INVITED SPEAKER
Climate and malaria analysis for national decision-making. Data, methodologies and tools.
Madeleine Thomson, International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman, Columbia University, USA

ORAL COMMUNICATION
The influence of air temperature on hospital admissions due to mental disorders in Lisbon
Ricardo Almendra, Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), University of Coimbra, Portugal

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Modelling climate and non-climate impacts on malaria in Malawi for effective control interventions
James Chirombo, CHICAS, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, UK and Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

INVITED SPEAKER
Space-time modelling of mosquito densities: application to Aedes albopictus, vector of viruses, in Reunion Island
Emmanuel Roux, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development

PARALLEL SESSION 12:
Agent-based modelling
Auditorium Mariano Gago

CHAIR: Marília Carvalho, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil

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INVITED SPEAKER
Using agent-based models to investigate the impact of firearms disqualification criteria on firearm-related homicide and suicide.
Magdalena Cerdá, University of California, USA

INVITED SPEAKER
Why Integrating Environmental Modelling and Spatially-explicit ABM? Revisiting Max Sorre´s Ideas can be the Answers of Why and How.
Miguel Monteiro, Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

ORAL COMMUNICATION
A comercial airline network model for chikungunya spread in the Caribbean
Carlos Dommar, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGLOBAL), Spain

13.45-14.25

PLENARY SESSION II
CHAIR: Sandra Alves, ESTSP.IPP, i3S/INEB, Portugal

Space-Time Modeling of Small Area Data in a Developing World Setting
Jon Wakefield, University of Washington, USA

Auditorium Mariano Gago

14.30-16.10

PARALLEL SESSION 13:
GIS in Public Health II
Auditorium Corino de Andrade

CHAIR: Robert Haining, University of Cambridge, UK

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INVITED SPEAKER
An interactive Spatial Decision Support System to manage Public Heath in Gulbarga taluk, Karnataka, India.
Sulochana Shekhar, Kuvempu University, India, & Syed Ashfaq Ahmed, Central University of Karnataka, India

INVITED SPEAKER
Is more always better? Exploring indicators of quality of green space in relation to self-reported general health
Paul Brindley, The University of Sheffield, UK

ORAL COMMUNICATION
An activity space approach to assessing food-related spatial behavior of urban African-American women in Atlanta, GA, USA
Ilana G. Raskind, Emory University, USA

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Malaria and Risk Factors in the Brazilian Amazon, 2010-2015
Tiago Canelas, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and Global Public Health Observatory, USA

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Fine-scale visualization of pollen concentrations across the Eastern United States: A space-time parallel approach
Michael Desjardins, Department of Geography & Earth Sciences and Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (CAGIS),  University of North Carolina at Charlotte , Charlotte

PARALLEL SESSION 14:
Modelling and inference in infectious disease epidemiology
Auditorium Mariano Gago

CHAIR: Duncan Lee, University of Glasgow, UK

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ORAL COMMUNICATION
Spatiotemporal heterogeneity in leptospirosis transmission in northeastern Thailand
Katharine A. Owers, Yale University School of Public Health, USA

INVITED SPEAKER
Modelling human mobility for respiratory pathogen transmission
Jonathan Read, Lancaster University, UK

INVITED SPEAKER
Individual level infectious disease models incorporating aggregate level spatial structure
Robert Deardon, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Using Genotyping and Geospatial Analyses to Study Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis Transmission and Migrants
Erjia Ge, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Delay in diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: space matters!
Carla Nunes, Centro de Investigação em Saúde Pública; Universidade NOVA de Lisboa/ENSP, Portugal

16.50-18.30

PARALLEL SESSION 15:
The use of linked data in spatial epidemiology
Auditorium Corino de Andrade

CHAIR: Tom Clemens, University of Edinburgh, UK

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INVITED SPEAKER
Using people’s spatial movement as ‘natural experiments’ for environment-health effects – possibilities and problems using large scale administrative data studies.
Chris Dibben, University of Edinburgh, UK

INVITED SPEAKER
The Exposome: Use of linked data to build a whole life course approach to environmental and social exposures
Clive Sabel, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

INVITED SPEAKER
Using linked individual health data to study air pollution and pregnancy outcomes: a bayesian spatial modelling approach
Tom Clemens, University of Edinburgh, UK

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Can the geographical patterns in acute myocardial infarction in Denmark be explained by the sociodemographic structure of the population?
Thora Majlund Kjærulff, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

ORAL COMMUNICATION
State-level Minimum Wage and Heart Disease Death Rates in the United States, 1980-2015
Miriam Van Dyke, Emory University, USA

PARALLEL SESSION 16:
Joint Modelling with Spatial Variation
Auditorium Mariano Gago

CHAIR: Denisa Mendonça, University of Porto, Portugal

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INVITED SPEAKER
Bayesian joint modeling of longitudinal and spatial survival AIDS data
Giovani L. Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal

INVITED SPEAKER
Joint modeling of longitudinal biomarkers and recurrence in breast cancer with spatial effects
Inês Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal

INVITED SPEAKER
Joint Modeling of Spatial Outcomes: Benefits to Understanding the Underlying Process and Power Gains
Charmaine Dean, University of Western Ontario, Canada

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Bayesian Inference for High Dimensional Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Models
Sofia Maria Karadimitriou, University of Sheffield, UK

ORAL COMMUNICATION
An evaluation of multi pollutant profiles and respiratory mortality in London and Oxford.
Anna Freni-Sterrantino, UK Small Area Health Statistic Unit (SAHSU), MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK

09.00-10.40

PARALLEL SESSION 17:
Remote sensing applications in health
Auditorium Corino de Andrade

CHAIR: Emmanuel Roux, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), France

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INVITED SPEAKER
Remote sensing for studying and modelling infectious diseases: advances and challenges
Emmanuel Roux, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), France

INVITED SPEAKER
CNES activities in tele-epidemiology
Cécile Vignolles, Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), France

INVITED SPEAKER
How the Earth Observation (EO) Community can help Bridging the Gap between Research and Services in Public Health Operational Programs? The Joint INPE and FIOCRUZ Experience
Miguel Monteiro, Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, Brazil

INVITED SPEAKER
Integrating Remotely-Sensed Climate and Environmental Information into Public Health
Pietro Ceccato, The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, NYC, USA

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Environmental changes and the incidence of visceral leishmaniasis in Teresina, Brazil through 1996 to 2007.
Guilherme L. Werneck, State University of Rio de Janeiro and IESC, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PARALLEL SESSION 18:
Challenges and Advances in Spatio-Temporal Disease Modelling
Auditorium Mariano Gago

CHAIR: Trevor Bailey, University of Exeter, UK and Theodoros Economou, University of Exeter, UK

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INVITED SPEAKER
Global Estimation of Air Quality and the Burden of Disease associated with Ambient Air Pollution
Gavin Shaddick, University of Bath, Bath, UK

ORAL COMMUNICATION
A spatio-temporal process-convolution model for quantifying health inequalities in respiratory prescription rates in Scotland
Duncan Lee, University of Glasgow, UK

INVITED SPEAKER
TB or not TB?
Trevelyan J. McKinley, Exeter University, UK

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Spatial tracking of a Measles outbreak in England and Wales using data assimilation
Ashok Krishnamurthy, Mount Royal University, Canada

INVITED SPEAKER
Modelling reporting delays of surveillance data
Leonardo Bastos, Fiocruz, Brazil

11:25-12:05

PLENARY SESSION III
CHAIR: Maria de Fátima de Pina, i3S, Fiocruz, Brazil & Porto University, Portugal

An Integrated Vector Management (IVM) Surveillance System for Malaria Using Remote Sensing Based on Satellite and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Technologies
Daniel Griffith, University of Texas, USA

Auditorium Mariano Gago