Day two of the workshop covered prospective space-time disease analysis and surveillance. A combined format of lectures, software demonstrations, and hands-on exercises were used to provide a balance of theoretical understanding and practical skills development. Upon completion of this workshop, participants were able describe statistical concepts underlying disease surveillance methods, summarize theoretical and operational issues involved in the use of space-time disease surveillance methods in a variety of analytic scenarios, and perform, parameterize, and interpret, space-time disease surveillance analysis using SaTScan software.

Instructors - Colin Robertson, PhD Candidate, University of Victoria, Dr. Ying MacNab, Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC, Dr. Andrew Lawson, Professor, The Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina.

Prerequisite - Attendees should have knowledge of basic statistics.

Audience - This workshop was targeted to health geomatics professionals, public health workers, researchers, and epidemiologists.