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Geoinformatics technologies are being used in many parts of the world in health sector for monitoring vector-borne diseases, mapping risk areas, and assist in policy making and planning. Main sub-themes of the symposium are:

  • Health GIS Database
  • Healthcare Planning and Management
  • New Emerging Diseases – spatial causes and preparedness
  • Waterborne Diseases, Vector-borne Diseases
  • Telemedicine
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    Keynote Speakers
       

    Ganapati P. Patil

    Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Director, Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics Statistical ecology, environmental statistics, risk analysis, multiscale advanced raster map analysis, and surveillance geoinformatics.

       

    Jeffrey Soar

    University of Southern Queensland, AUSTRALIA
    Secretary, HISA Aged Care & Healthy Ageing Informatics SIG
       

    Sonja Olsen

    Acting Director,
    International Emerging Infections Program
    Thai Ministry of Public Health - U.S. CDC Collaboration. Nonthaburi, Thailand

       

    Maged N Kamel Boulos 

    He is now Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics. As well as his medical degree and MSc in Dermatology, he holds an MSc in "Medical Informatics" from King's College, University of London, UK, and a PhD in "Measurement and Information in Medicine" from City University, London. He is well published on the topics of the Semantic Web and geographic information systems, including Internet/Web GIS, in health and healthcare. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access International Journal of Health Geographics.
       
    Program
     
    December 1st, 2005
    Chao Praya
    room 1
    Chao Praya
    room 2
    		Chao Praya
    room 3
    08:00 – 18:00
    Registration
    09:00 – 10:00
    Opening Ceremony
    10:00 ...
    Inauguration Exhibition
    10:00 – 10:30
    Tea
    10:30 – 12:30
    		Key Note Session  
     

    Dr. Ganapati Patil
    Dr. Maged Boulos
    Bill Davenhall
    Dr. Sonja Olsen
    Dr. Jeffrey Soar
    Catherine C. Bond
    		  
    12:30 – 13:30
    Lunch
    13:30 – 15:00

     

    		 Technology Track  
       

    ESRI
    Lotus
    Digital Globe

    		  
    15:00 – 15:30
    Tea
    15:30 – 17:30

    Technical
    Session - 1
    Technical
    Session - 2
    Technical
    Session - 3
    18:30 – 20:30
    Dinner
    December 2nd, 2005
    Chao Praya
    room 1
    Chao Praya
    room 2
    		Chao Praya
    room 3
    08:30 – 12:00
    Registration
    08:30 – 10:30

    Technical
    Session - 4

    Technical
    Session - 5
    Technical
    Session - 6
    10:30 – 11:00
    Tea / Poster Session I
    11:00 – 12:30

    Technical
    Session - 7

    Technical
    Session - 8
    Health Surveillance Workshop
    12:30 – 13:30
    Lunch
    13:30 – 15:00

    Technical
    Session - 9

    Technical
    Session - 10
    Web GIS
    Workshop
    15:00 – 15:30
    Tea / Poster Session II
    15:30 – 16:45
    Brain Storming Track & Panel Discussion
    16:45 – 17:30
    Closing Ceremony
    Presentations (1-2 December 2005)


    Keynote Presentations
    1. Dr. Ganapati Patil (Download)
    2. Dr. Maged Boulos (Download)
    3. Bill Davenhall (Download)
    4. Dr. Sonja Olsen (Download)
    5. Catherine C. Bond (Download)

    Technology Tracks
    1. Imagery Applications in Public Health (Download)
    2. ESRI Technology Talk (Download)

    Technical Sessions
    No. Title Author
    1 GIDEON: a comprehensive Web-based resource for geographic medicine Stephen Berger
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    		 Geo-spatial Application for the Health Resource Management J. P. Mishra,  Piyush Pandey and Ruma Shukla
    3 Health GIS in CORE Group Nepal  Kabindra Joshi
    4 Development of a GIS-based Water Safety Plan as an Instrument for Risk Management in Catchment Areas  Ina Stalleicken and Thomas Kistemann
    5 Geographic Analysis of Vaccine Uptake in a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Hue, Vietnam

    		 Mohammad Ali, Vu Dinh Thiem, Jin-Kyung Park, Rion Leon Ochiai, Do Gia Canh, M. Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Linda M. Kaljee, John D. Clemens and Camilo J. Acosta
    6 GIS for Analysis of Vector Borne Diseases IV Murali Krishna
    7 GIS is in My Blood! S. Raghavendran
    8 Spatial Approach of Dengue Transmission based on Vector Pupae Index  Barbazan P., Demoraes F., Muttitanon W., Souris M., Yoksan S. and Gonzalez JP
    9 A Fuzzy Logic Based Expert Geographic Information System for Improved Immunization and Healthcare Satyadhyan.R.Chickerur and Aswatha Kumar .M
    10 OpenGIS Data Structure Enhancement for Craniofacial Morphometric Database Deni Suwardhi, Halim Setan, Albert K.Chong, Zulkepli Majid and Anuar Ahmad
    11 GIS Based Mapping of Health Facilities at Village Level, under Government and Private Sectors S.P.Karthikeyan, Vishnu Chandra, Vandana Sharma and V.V.Ringe
    12 Role of GIS in Health Management Information System Lalan Kumar  
    14 Participatory GIS for Health Impact Assessment of Arsenic-contaminated Water in Pakistan: A Case of Chahklalanwala Village, District Kasur  Hideharu Morishita, Takeshi Komai and M. Atiq ur Rahman
    15 Vector-Borne Disease Risk Assessment in Africa:  A Geomatics Approach Stéphane Chalifoux, Shannon Kaya and Jean-Claude Deguise
    16 Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of malaria in Indonesia, using Geographic Information Systems Neil Sipe, Ermi Ndoen and Pat Dale
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    		 Integrated Use of GIS to Design Preventive Strategies for Control and Monitoring the Tramsmission/Epidemics of HIV/Aids in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan Dr. Noor Jehan, Rabhit Begum, Alia Naz, Dr. Jawad Ahmad & Dr. Irshad Ahmad
    18 A Tool for Fluorosis Endemic Mapping using IDW: Applied to Dharmapuri District in India Manjula Devi K.K, Prasad Babu. J, Prashanthi Devi .M,  and Balasubramanian. S
    19 Seasonal Effects of Climatic Factors on Epidemic Malaria in Salem District, India: A Statistical Modeling Approach using GIS Prashanthi Devi.M, Prasad Babu. J, Manjula Devi. K.K, Lalitha Parameswari.N and Balasubramanian. S
    20 GIS & Spatial Analysis in the Groundwater Quality Modeling Of Punjab to Assess the Impact of Waterborne Diseases, Pakistan Adeel Anwar, Shama Qamar and Hammad Anwer
    21 Health GIS Tools & Applications in Upgradation of Primary Healthcare System in Rural Areas of Punjab, Pakistan  Adeel Anwar, Shama Qamar and Hammad Anwer
    22 Developing a Tool for Multi Constraint Query in GIS Environment: A Case Study of Coimbatore South Taluk in India Prasad Babu. J, Sridhar.R, Prashanthi Devi. M., Manjula Devi. K.K, Malini. P, and Balasubramanian. S
    23 The Applied Use of GIS in Public Health Ministries Bill Davenhall
    24 Spatial analysis of enterobiasis infections among Thai schoolchildren in Samut Prakan province using a Geographic Information System Nithikathkul Choosak, Sukthana Yaowalark, Hugot Jean-Pierre, Wongsawad Chalobol, Wichmann Ole, Gonzalez Jean-Paul and Herbreteau Vincent
    25 Using geographic information systems (GIS) to understand HIV epidemiologic patterns among men who have sex with men (MSM) residing in Bangkok, Thailand Thomas E. Guadamuz, Samart Karuchit, Philip Mock, Sathapana Naorat and Frits van Griensven
    26 Detection of Lung cancer clusters in Iran using GIS and statistical analyses Massoomy Z., Saadi Mesgari M.
    27 Development of a Geo-Statistical Model for Skin Cancer Massoomy Z., Saadi Mesgari M.
    28 Use of Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing to study Leptospirosis environmental exposure, Phrae province, Thailand Demoraes Florent, Souris Marc, Khaungaew Wasana, Kittayapong Pattamaporn, Gonzalez Jean-Paul and Herbreteau Vincent
    29 Health GIS: A Case Study of Leeds City Council (UK) for carrying out Food Hygiene Inspections Kashif Siddiqi, Urooj Fatima, Mubushar Hussain, Keith Gibson
    30 Agricultural changes, water quality and health: investigating the health status of populations living in an agricultural irrigated area, using spatial analysis, in Phrae province, Thailand Herbreteau Vincent, Gonzalez Jean-Paul, Khaungaew Wasana, Salem Gérard and Janeau Jean-Louis
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    		 Health Susceptibility Mapping Taniya Ray, Shalabh Bharadwaj, Dr K.S.Siva Subramanian and Prabir Mukherjee
    32 Surveillance on data quality in health GIS - A case study in Tamil Nadu, India M.Arulraj, D.Sathishkumar and N.Manoharan
    33 National GeoSpatial Information Infrastructure Requirements for Health Eve Kleiman
    34 Exploring Constraints and Potentialities of Spatial Dimensions in Health Data: A Perspective from Pakistan Mubushar Hussain , Dr.Mudassar Hassan Arsalan 
    36 The Development of a Web-Based GIS Application for Mapping HIV Programs in the Mekong Region Catherine Esposito, Lalita Shankar and Sanphet Chunithipaisan
    37 Utilising geospatial tools for visualising the diseases of Tuberculosis and malaria in the district of Nalbari in the province of Assam, India   Ankur Das
    38 Appropriateness of Sodis Technology to Control Water Borne Infectious Diseases: A Case Study of Cholistan Desert of Pakistan Qamar-ul-Islam and Ghulam Abbas Anjum
    39 Controlling Infectious Water Borne Diseases through Solar Water Disinfection: A Case Study of Chakwal Mountainous District of Pakistan Ghulam Abbas Anjum and  Qamar-ul-Islam
    40 The Impacts on Health by using Safe Drinking Water through Solar Technology : A Case Study Of Jhang District Of Pakistan Qamar-ul-Islam and Ghulam Abbas Anjum
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    		 Modelling Spatial Risk to Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Using Geographic Information System (GIS) and Logistic Regression: A Case Study of Penang Island, Malaysia Aziz bin Shafie, Ruslan bin Rainis and Abu Hassan bin Ahmad
    42 Occupational Health Hazards of Ship Scraping Workers at Chittagong Coastal Zone, Bangladesh M. Shahadat Hossain1, Sayedur Rahman Chowdhury1, S. M. Abdul Jabbar2, S.M. Saifullah2 and M. Ataur Rahman
    43 Environmental Health Considerations in Decisions on Industrial Location: An Application using GIS in Punjab Province, Pakistan Awais Piracha, Hideharu Morishita and Shahed Khan
    44 Investigating Critical Linkages between Population Pressure, Industrial Development and Environmental Health: A Case for GIS Based Approach to Pollution Control at the Regional Level Shahed Khan, Awais Piracha and Hideharu Morishita 
    45 Application of  Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Public Health Administration in Thailand Phisan Santitamnont
    46 Health Information Model based on Geo-temporal Systems - A Tentative Study  Shoichiro Hara   
    47 The Use of Agent Based Model in GIS for Epidemiology and Disease Emergence Prediction Souris Marc
    48 Rift Vally Fever in Saudi Arabia KAMEL M. SHEIKHO
    49 Geographical Distribution of Ticks in Thailand: A Discussion Basis for Tick-Borne Virus Spatial Repartition Assessment Cornet Jean-Paul, Demoraes Florent, Gonzalez Jean-Paul, Souris Marc and Kittayapong Pattamaporn
    50 Cost effective control of malaria using GIS in forest fringe areas in India Aruna Srivastava, B.N. Nagpal, Rekha Saxena, and A.P. Dash
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    		 Geographic Information System of Dengue Hemorrhagic fever in Phitsanulok Suchart N., Kamnoltham T., Sornprasit S.
    52 Study of Soil degradation around the Jajrud river using Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing Ammar Rafiei Emam
    53 Contextualising the Urban Helathcare System. Methodology for developing a geodatabase of Delhi's healthcare system Pierre Chapelet
    54 The Application of Geographic Information Systems(GIS) to illustrate geographicial distribution of notifiable diseases in Saudi Arabia during the 1990s Abdullah M. Al-Rabeah, Mona A. Al-Anezi
    55 Avian Influenza evolution in Thailand and risk assessment using GIS Souris Marc
    56 Epidemiological Modeling using GIS: case study of Dengue Fever Illyani Ibrahim, Madya Dr Khoiri b. Dimyati
    57 Mapping of Air Pollution Dispersion using Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System Suhari Ismail, Sayed jamaludin Sayed Ali
    58 Using GIS to meet the challenges of Ageing and Aged Care Soar J. , Liu Y.
    59 Predicted Risk Areas of Dengue Hemorrhagic fever using a Case control study and satellite images in Thailand Chitti Chansang, Gregory E. Glass. Timothy M. Shields, Pattamaporn Kittayapong
    60 Geographic Information System(GIS) Application for Investigating the distribution of Sleeping Sickness in Urambo Benjamin Mayala
    61 Development of GIS Based Hospital Information System Biswajit Sarma
    62 Geographic Information System(GIS) supported to Investigate Distribution of Freshwater Snail, Bithynia(Digoniostoma) funiculata, in Suburban area of Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Ratchadawan Ngoen-Klan
    63 Using GIS Freeware and Low cost data to assess the risk of chemical disaster in Samut Prakarn Province Pibool Issarapan
    64 Complexity Of A Geographical Study Of Anopheline Densities Within An African Village Julie  Vallee
    65 Targeting Potential Groundwater Zones in Hard Rock Environment using GIS for Rural Development– An integrated Approach  C. Lakshumanan 
    66 The use of Remote Sensing for estimating the impact of climate change on Japanese encephalistic disease distribution S. Adsavakulchai,K. Honda
    67 Sensor Combination Assessment and Selection Methodology in Remote sensing satellites M. Hassani, M. Mirshams, A. Talebzadeh
    68 Identify the Risk Area of Dengue outbreak using Remote sensing and GIS Technologies Umor Morni
    69 Using GIS for Public Health and its problems in Iran  Moahmood Dehnavi, Saied Pirasteh, Amir mahmoodzadeh
    70 Using Electrical Resistivity and Hydrogeology Modeling for Investigating Saltwater Intrusion in Haiphong Coastal Plain Nguyen Nhu Trung, Nguyen Ba Minh, Nguyen Van Nghia
    71

    Exploring Malaria Prevalence in Kanchanaburi, Thailand using
    Open Source GIS Software

    		 Phaisarn Jeefoo, Yann Chemin, Nitin Kumar Tripathi
    72 An Information Value Approach to Relate Physical and Climatic Factors with Dengue Fever (DF) and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF)

    Kanchana Nakhapakorn, Nitin K. Tripathi
    73 GIS-Based Rapid Demographic Assessments Ben Sklaver,Thomas Handzel,Mary D. Brantley,Alden Henderson,Arie Manangan
    74 Towards a Geospatial Disease Outbreak Surveillance and Reporting System Pervaiz Meer and Dave Haut
    75 Avian Influenza A. Clark, M. Napier, D. Williams, J. Fujita
    76 The use of remote sensing for estimating the impact of climate change on Japanese encephalitis disease distribution S. ADSAVAKULCHAI and K. HONDA
    77 Spatial approach of dengue transmission based on Vector Pupae Index Barbazan P, Demoraes F, Bonyuan W, Souris M, Muttitanon W, Tuntaprasart W, Yoksan S, Gonzalez JP
    78 Role of Space based Remote Sensing & GIS for Early Warning & Control Strategies for Vector Borne Diseases in India S. Adiga
    79 Spatial Analysis for the Location of Outbreaks and the Spread Pattern of Avian Influenza in China Using Remote Sensing and GIS Liu Yalan,Yan Lei, Wu Xiaobo, Xiao Chunsheng
    80 Planner Oriented Health Information System - A Sample Study from India SM.Ramasamy
    81 GIS Application of Dengue Outbreak in Samsung District, Khon Kaen Province, Thailand 2005 Paskorn, Chaiyaseth
    82 Calculating spatial accessibility to primary health care Nasser Bagheri, George Benwell, Alec Holt & Toktam Ebadi
    83 Using Spatial Analysis to Investigate the Detectability of Environmental Risk Factors in Breast Cancer Surveillance Data: A Simulation Study Vipat Kuruchittham
    84 Overview of Web GIS Technologies and Applications Venkatesh Raghavan