3141.0 GIS Relationships: Health Department, Vulnerable Populations and Others

Monday, October 29, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Big Data Technologies are vital in mining data sets that are growing increasingly larger, with increasingly important implications for public health. This session will expose participants to the latest innovations, as well as how local and state health departments can leverage this knowledge to understand, for example, the impact of budget cuts on the public health workforce.
Session Objectives: • List the three frontiers of data analysis enabled through Big Data technologies • Discuss public health informatics use-cases enabled through Big Data technologies
Organizer:
Jayfus Doswell, PhD
Moderator:
Tracy M. Hilliard, PhD, MPH

10:30am
New frontiers in data analytics: How big data technologies enable novel applications in public health
Matthew Dollacker, PMP
     
10:50am
Using geographic information systems to investigate the relationship between local health departments' workforce cuts and vulnerable populations
Tracy M. Hilliard, PhD, MPH, Betty Bekemeier, PhD, MPH, FAAN, Matthew Dunbar, PhD and Young Ran Yang, PhDc, MPH, RN
     
11:10am
First steps in constructing a public health GIS in eastern Indonesia
James L. Wilson, Ph.D., Ansariadi Ansariadi, Ph.D. and Tomoyuki Shibata, Ph.D
     
11:30am
Multiagency data on fatal child abuse, an underutilized tool
Michael Durfee, MD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Health Informatics Information Technology Center (HIIT Center)
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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