Symposium Agenda

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

7:30 a.m. – Noon	Registration
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Room: Decatur A	Welcome and Introductory Remarks	Henry Rolka and Joe Henderson
9:15 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Invited Session 1
Room: Decatur A	Spatial and Temporal Analytics in Biosurveillance Moderator, Mark Stevens
9:20 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.	Statistical process control (SPC) ideas in spatiotemporal and temporal public health surveillance	William H. Woodall
9:50 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.	Multivariate Bayesian scan statistics for event detection and characterization	Daniel B. Neill
10:20 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Spatiotemporal data analysis and online surveillance	Daniel Dajun Zeng
10:50 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.	Break
	Contributed Session 1
11:05 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Room: Henry Oliver	Assessing Risk and Mortality Moderator, Robert N. Anderson
11:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Application of robust regression models for estimating influenza-associated deaths using the CDC 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System data	Po-Yung Cheng
11:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Eight methods for estimating influenza-associated deaths	Hong Zhou
11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.	A risk assessment of human-human transmission of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) strain	Asundep Ntui
11:05 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Room: Mary Gay	Estimation Using Multiple Data Sources Moderator, Wendy Wattigney
11:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Population estimate of people living with spina bifida in the United States, 2004	Melissa Danielson
11:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Using multiple data sources to estimate the percentage of U.S. births resulting from non-ART infertility treatments	Owen Devine
11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.	Estimating the incidence of perinatal HIV infection in the United States	Xinjian Zhang
12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Room: Commons Area	Poster Session 1
	1. Info-Fusion for public health services and applications	Ninad Mishra
	2. Functional data analysis of likelihood functions as a tool for meta-analysis	Michael Brimacombe
	3. Using data from multiple sources to examine social determinants of health— MAUP strikes again	Zhuo “Adam” Chen
	4. Statistical power of three tests for comparing vaccination coverage curves, National Immunization Survey (NIS)	Zhen Zhao
	5. The use of hierarchical weighted least squares for multi-source parameter estimation: Analysis of Wisconsin unemployment data	Sergey Tarima
	6. Fusion of voluntary cough sound and air flow characteristic to identify subjects with different lung diseases, 2003	Ayman Abaza
	Contributed Session 2
1:45 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. Room: Henry Oliver	Detecting Trends in Influenza Morbidity Moderator, Myron Katzoff
1:50 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.	Acceleration of influenza associated disease rates with age: The SIMPLE Method	Steven Cohen
2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	Early detection of localized excess influenza activity in northern California with patient care, prescription, and laboratory data	Sharon Greene
2:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.	The application of the d-Method for seasonality assessment of influenza in multi-source surveillance data	Julia Wenger
1:45 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. Room: Mary Gay	Information Fusion: Bayesian Networks to Protect Us Moderator, Laurie Barker
1:50 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.	General water quality and public health information fusion model	Zaruhi Mnatsakanyan
2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	Distributed information fusion models	Howard S. Burkom
2:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.	Information fusion from expert networks and its use by the PLAN C System to plan for a vulnerable urban population	Bud Mishra
2:55 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.	Break
3:10 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.	Invited Session 2
Room: Decatur A	Approaches to Data Fusion and Analysis Moderator, Elizabeth Ely
3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.	An accessible approach for fusion of environmental and human health data for disease surveillance	Howard S. Burkom
3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.	Visualizing large, high-dimensional data sets using Andrews’ images	Wendy Martinez
4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.	Statistical machine learning as a platform for analysis of multi-stream food safety data	Artur Dubrawski

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

7:30 a.m. – Noon	Registration
9:00 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.	Invited Session 3
Room: Decatur A	Analytic Issues in Refining Biosurveillance Moderator, Owen Devine
9:05 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.	Optimizing the response to alerts in automated surveillance systems	David L. Buckeridge
9:35 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.	Recent research in healthcare and public health surveillance	Kwok-Leung Tsui
10:05 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.	Optimizing biosurveillance systems	Ronald Fricker, Jr.
10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Break
	Contributed Session 3
10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. Room: Henry Oliver	Minimizing Bias and Variance in Survey Data Moderator, Tim Green
10:55 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Quantifying bias in a health survey: an application of total survey error modeling to the National Immunization Survey	Noelle-Angelique Molinari
11:15 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.	Assessment of bias in the National Immunization Survey—Teen: Benchmarking to the National Health Interview Survey	Meena Khare
11:35 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.	Health indicators: Eliminating bias from convenience sampling estimators	Bethany Hedt
11:55 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Smoothing across time in repeated cross-sectional data	J.R. Lockwood
10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. Room: Mary Gay	Novel Uses of Multi-Source Data: Monitoring and Validation Moderator, John Copeland
10:55 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Efficient scalable schemes for monitoring multiple data streams	Yajun Mei
11:15 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.	Further validation of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory in a USA population	Jin-Mann “Sally” Lin
11:35 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.	The critical role of CDC-INFO in public health threat surveillance, monitoring, and assessment	Fred Springer
11:55 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Applications of health risk analysis, risk modeling, and decision science	Vijay Desai
12:20 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. Room: Commons Area	Poster Session 2
	1. Using pooled samples for biomonitoring	Samuel Caudill
	2. Evaluation of outdoor air pollutants and daily asthma hospitalization in northern New Jersey	Stella Manchun Tsai
	3. Statistical issues in the use of multi-source market research data for audience analysis in health communication planning	William Pollard
	4. Multivariate disease mapping (MVDM)	Caroline Jeffery
	5. Can syndicated consumer lifestyle & behavior data inform public health practice? A data-fusion pilot test	James Weaver, III
	6. A quantitative risk assessment for the likelihood of introduction of highly pathogenic avian influenza strain H5N1 into USA hunters’ retriever dogs	Cedric Lane
	7. Bayesian pair matching for separately reported risks in paired 2 x 2 tables with applications in meta-analysis of dental sealant performance	Brani Vidakovic
	Contributed Session 4
1:50 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Room: Henry Oliver	Integrated Approaches to Disease Surveillance Moderator, Jian “Jim” Xing
1:55 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.	Improving disease surveillance by incorporating residential history	Justin Manjourides
2:15 p.m. – 2:35 p.m.	Exploring electronic medical records for public health surveillance	Joseph Lombardo
2:35 p.m. – 2:55 p.m.	Bayesian CAR models for syndromic surveillance on multiple data streams: theory and practice	Gauri Datta
2:55 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.	Object-oriented Bayesian networks for biosurveillance	Kas Salawu
1:50 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Room: Mary Gay	Local Area Estimation, Mapping, and Spatial Analysis Moderator, Arie Manangan
1:55 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.	Synthetic estimation of local area health literacy using data from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy	Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar
2:15 p.m. – 2:35 p.m.	Mapping local risk ratios of rare infectious diseases with aggregate data	Nong Shang
2:35 p.m. – 2:55 p.m.	Mixture models application in tuberculosis risk areas classification	Flavio Nobre
2:55 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.	Model selection for a non-randomized, longitudinal trial using Bayesian hierarchical analysis	Terrence Murphy