Statistical Applications Using Massive and Emerging Data in Public Health Thirteenth Biennial CDC Symposium on Statistical Methods May 24-25, 2011
 

Call for Abstracts

Statisticians, social and behavioral scientists, epidemiologists, economists, policy analysts, and other health researchers are invited to participate in the Thirteenth Biennial Symposium on Statistical Methods to be held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Decatur, Georgia (Atlanta metropolitan area). The Symposium is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention* (CDC) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). The theme of the 2011 Symposium is “Statistical Applications Using Massive and Emerging Data in Public Health.” In conjunction with the Symposium, a short course on Statistical Analysis of Network Data by Eric Kolaczyk will be offered on May 23, 2011. Submission of abstracts is encouraged for contributed sessions of oral and poster presentations related to any of the following Symposium topic areas:

• Analytical innovations in public health surveillance and medical screening

• Use of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data for epidemiologic studies or public health research and surveillance

• Epidemiologic studies and public health research with data from complex sample surveys

• Experiences with secondary analysis of existing privately held, restricted or otherwise non-public release data sets in epidemiologic studies and public health research: methodological issues and success stories

• Spatial and temporal data analyses for public health surveillance

• Analyses of text, image or qualitative data

• Risk analysis, prediction and decision science

• Techniques for assessing and monitoring public health practice, preparedness and emergency or disaster response

• Synthesis, development, selection and assessment of statistical models for numeric and non-numeric data: meta-analysis, integrated systematic review, multi-center data analyses and applications of data-mining

• Biometric Applications to Public Health

• Methodological issues and applications of multiple data sources for risk prediction

• Genomic Studies and Health Effects

• Simulation Models for predicting near, mid or long-term disease outcomes during the course of an outbreak

Abstracts will be considered for either oral or poster presentation and must be submitted no later than February 7, 2011. Authors will receive e-mail notification of acceptance or rejection by February 18, 2011. For more information, please visit the Symposium website at http://www.cdc.gov/sag or contact:

C. J. Alverson
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road NE (MS E-86)
Atlanta, GA 30329
770-596-2165
sag@cdc.gov