September 3 – 7, 2012
| Monday, September 3, 2012 | |
| Introduction, study designs, methods, health statistics | |
| 08.30 – 09.00 | Registration, welcome and introduction (Krämer) (Common session) |
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Challenges for infectious disease epidemiology in a global world characterized by increasing urbanisation and climate change (Krämer) (Common session) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | The geographies of health: Key questions in environmental health studies and examples (Gruebner) |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Study design I: Research methods in environmental health studies - study designs and outcome measures (Jahn) |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Coffee break |
| 15.15 – 16.30 |
Subgroups according to knowledge: Introduction to SPSS for data analysis and basic health statistics - basics (Helmer) and advanced (Khan) |
| 16.30 – 16.45 | Short break |
| 16.45 – 18.00 | Subgroups according to knowledge: basic: Computing I: Practical exercise for computing basic health statistics (Helmer) advanced: Computing I: Practical exercise for computing basic health statistics (Khan) |
| 19.00 | Coming together |
| Tuesday, September 4, 2012 | |
| Study designs, confounding and interpretation of epidemiological findings: disease and exposure anaylsis | |
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Study design II: Bias, confounding and interpretation of epidemiological findings (Khan) (Common session) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Remote sensing and spatial data analysis in megacities using geographic information systems (GIS) (Lakes) (Common session) |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Computing II: Individual/group analysis of health data/statistical modelling (Khan) |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Coffee break |
| 15.15 – 16.45 |
Computing III: Geoprocessing with GIS (Gruebner) |
| 16.45 – 17.00 | Short break |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Computing III: Geoprocessing with GIS (Gruebner) |
| 17.30 - 18.00 | Group work: discussing and choosing topics (Gruebner, Khan, Krämer, Lakes) |
| Wednesday, September 5, 2012 | |
| Climate impact in megacities, emerging infections, spatial-epidemiological modelling | |
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Climate impact and other environmental stressors (Kropp) (common session) |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Climate change and emerging infectious diseases (Prüfer-Krämer) (Common session) |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Spatial-epidemiological analysis and modelling: What do we know, where do we go? (Höhle) |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Coffee break |
| 15.15 – 16.45 |
Computing IV: Spatial cluster analysis (Kauhl) |
| 16.45 – 17.00 | Short break |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Computing V: Bivariate spatial-epidemiological modelling (Gruebner) |
| Thursday, September 6, 2012 | |
| Burden of Disease methodology, practical exercises | |
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Measruing overall health in megacities: The Burden of Disease methodology as a potential approach (Plaß) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Climate change effects on vector-borne diseases in Europe - a spatio-temporal modelling approach (Fischer) |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Group work / analysis (Gruebner, Khan) |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Coffee break |
| 15.15 – 17.30 | Group work / preparation of the presentation (Gruebner, Khan) |
| 19.00 | Coming together |
| Friday, September 7, 2011 | |
| Practical examples, group presentations, closing | |
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Global epidemiology and challenges of HIV/AIDS (Finkbeiner) (Common session) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Early-warning surveillance based on emergency data (Krafft) (Common session) |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 15.30 | Presentations of the participants (Krämer, Prüfer-Krämer, Gruebner, Khan) (Common session) |
| 15.30 | Closing Session |
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Programme Directors
Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Krämer
Dr. Md. Mobarak Hossain Khan
Department of Public Health Medicine
University of Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Tobia Lakes
Dr. Oliver Gruebner
Department of Geography
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Location: University Campus of Bielefeld University
Lecture Room: V2 - 200
Computer Lab: V0 - 133 and T5 - 132
Lecturers
- Thomas Finkbeiner, MD, PhD (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tanzania)
- Dominik Fischer, PhD (University of Bayreuth)
- Oliver Gruebner, PhD (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Stefanie Helmer, M. Sc. (University of Bremen)
- Michael Höhle, PhD (Robert Koch Institute)
- Heiko Jahn, M. Sc. (University of Bielefeld)
- Md. Mobarak Hossain Khan, PhD (University of Bielefeld)
- Boris Kauhl, Dipl.Geogr. (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
- Thomas Krafft, PhD (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
- Alexander Krämer, MD, PhD (University of Bielefeld)
- Jürgen Kropp, PhD (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
- Tobia Lakes, PhD (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Dietrich Plaß, M. Sc. (University of Bielefeld)
- Luise Prüfer-Krämer, MD, PhD (Institute for Innovation Transfer at the University of Bielefeld GmbH)
