Department of Public Health Medicine
In 2013, this International Summer School aiming at the interface of climate change and spatial epidemiology now takes place for the 5th time. It is an advanced training course of the Institute for Innovation Transfer at the University of Bielefeld GmbH (IIT) in cooperation with the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld and the Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The International Summer School Programme “Climate change and spatial epidemiology: Concepts, Modelling, Strategies” is combined with the well-established course on infectious disease epidemiology (IDE) (Website Summer School IDE), to improve the knowledge about geo-statistical and epidemiological methods for controlling the predominant health problems of the 21st century.
Aim:
The course addresses recent challenges of climate change and spatial epidemiology. We focus on state-of-the-art statistical and spatial modeling to address topics of health and the environment in developing countries, such as burden of disease, socio-ecological health determinants, and disease mapping. The aim is to combine theoretical and lab work on statistical analysis and spatial-epidemiological modeling techniques in a transdisciplinary approach.
Learning objectives:
After completing the course, our participants will be able:
- to understand the multidisciplinarity of health problems in developing countries
- to approach concepts of population projection, epidemiological and demographical transitions
- to apply statistical techniques (i.e. multivariate regression analysis) which are commonly used in health sciences
- to apply geospatial techniques (i.e. geoprocessing in geographic information systems - GIS) which are commonly used in geography
- to apply spatial-epidemiological modelling techniques (multivariate regression models that control for spatial dependencies in the data) which are commonly used in studies on health and the environment (spatial epidemiology, health geography)
- to work more effectively in collaboration with other disciplines for investigating multidisciplinary problems to develop sustainable strategies for the improvement of living conditions in developing countries.
For further information you can download the Programme (Draft).
