Bioethics Calendar Of Event
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Event Title: Conference: Geospatial Intelligence, Social Data, and the Future of Public Health Preparedness and Response
Date: 11/16/2009
Time:
8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Place: Low Library Rotunda
535 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
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Speaker: Steven Johnson (Keynote Speaker), Author of The Ghost Map; Charles DiMaggio, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University; Chris Goranson, GIS Director of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Tony Jebara, Co-Founder of Sense Networks; Theresa Pardo, Director of the Center for Technology in Government; Eric Rasmussen, CEO of Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD); Mark Smith, Epidemiologist, Guilford County Department of Public Health, North Carolina
Sponsor: This conference is supported by the CDC's Center for Public Health Preparedness grant to Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
Contact Information: For further information regarding this event, please contact Thomas E. Chandler by sending email to tec11@columbia.edu or by calling 646-845-2313.
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| Description: Sessions will focus on (1) the emerging uses of geospatial intelligence and social data (2) frontiers of public health GIS practice with technologies being used or developed for public health preparedness and response, and (3) a capstone session which ties together these conceptual and technical themes. Registration is free, RSVP online. |
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