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Some places remain for
        
        Introduction to Bayesian Disease Mapping (IBDM)
        Bayesian Disease Mapping with INLA (BDMI)
        Advanced Bayesian Disease Mapping  (ABDM)
        
        **Offering of Introductory and Advanced BDM courses and BDM with
        INLA in MUSC, Charleston, SC, USA**
         
        Historic Charleston, South Carolina
        
         *Course content*
        
        These courses are designed to provide a comprehensive
        introduction to the area of Bayesian disease mapping in
        applications to Public Health and Epidemiology:
        The IBDM course will run on March 12th - 13th, the BDMI course
        will run on March 14th
        and the ABDM course will run on March 15th - 16th 2018.
        
        The BDMI course provides a hands-on introduction to spatial
        health modeling with INLA, while more advanced INLA examples are
        included in the ABDM course. 
        Both spatial and spatio-temporal analyses using WinBUGS and INLA
        will be considered.
        Examples will range over childhood asthma data from Georgia,
        influenza in South Carolina, foot-and-mouth disease in the UK
        and Ohio respiratory cancer.
        
         *The speaker*
        
        Professor Andrew B. Lawson (Department of Public Health
        Sciences, College of Medicine,
        Medical University of South Carolina) is a World Health
        Organization (WHO) advisor
        on Disease Mapping and organized with
        the WHO an International workshop on this topic which has led to
        an edited volume
        “Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health”.
        He has published a number of books focused on disease mapping
        and
        spatial epidemiology. Most recently he was chief editor of the
        Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology (2016).
        
        The 2nd Edition of the volume *Bayesian Disease Mapping* will be
        a course text for the IBDM course, and is included in the IBDM
        course fee.
        
        
         *REGISTRATION INFORMATION*
        
        Detailed information and registration form is available from
         
        http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/phs/docs/march2018.pdf
        
        
        Phone registration to:
        
        Department of Public Health Sciences
        
         (843) 876-1578
        
         Fax registration form to:
        
         Department of Public Health Sciences
        
         (843) 792-6000
         
         Booking Enquiries can be made by
         E-mail to June Watson at wats...@musc.edu