Update as of September 2022: BioMedware has received a notice of award that its research in creating accurate models of environmental exposure will continue with payment of the second and last tranche of grant funds of $868,000 from the National Institute of...
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Phase One $225K Grant Awarded to BioMedware for Multivariate Analysis
BioMedware has started a new line of research into creating accurate models of environmental exposure. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has awarded a $224,910 Phase I SBIR grant BioMedware to create more accurate models of environmental...
BioMedware holds preconference course to debut new software at NAACCR/IACR 2019 Annual Conference
NAACCR/IACRVancouver, British Columbia, Canada INTRODUCTION TO METRIC 1.0 SOFTWARE TO MEASURE THE CANCER HEALTH ENVIRONMENT This preconference course will introduce METRIC to the cancer research, control and surveillance community. BioMedware, in collaboration with...
Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will be the Keynote Speaker at LSUS on March 15 2019
4th ANNUAL LSUS REGIONAL STUDENT SCHOLARS FORUM Date: Friday, March 15, 2019 Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Venue: LSUS University Center Keynote Speaker: Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, renowned expert on Medical Geography and Geostatistics. Dr. Goovaerts studies how spatial disease...
Software for Joinpoint Regression of Geo-Temporal Data – $1 Million Grant Awarded to BioMedware
BioMedware has received a notice of award that its research in creating software for joinpoint regression analysis of time series health outcomes data will continue with additional funding of $1 million from the National Cancer Institute. Joinpoint regression,...
Health 2.0 12th Annual Fall Conference in Santa Clara
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez - Sept 16-19th, Attending Health 2.0 12th Annual Fall conference https://fall2018.health2con.com/
Residential Histories talk at NAACCR 2018
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez will speak on the "Use of Residential Histories in Exposure Reconstruction and Space-Time Cancer Clustering", Special session "Finding Home: Advances in Residential History Data". June 12-14 NAACCR Annual conference, Pittsburgh, presenting June...
Talk at School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University
Dr. Goovaerts will give a talk titled: “Flint drinking water crisis: a first attempt to model geostatistically the space-time distribution of water lead levels” at School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University in Nanjing, China.
Geostatistical Prediction of Water Lead levels in Flint, Michigan: a Multivariate Approach – Talk
Dr. Goovaerts will present a talk titled: “Geostatistical Prediction of Water Lead levels in Flint, Michigan: a Multivariate Approach” at the 13th International Symposium of Spatial Accuracy in Beijing. Read more about the symposium:...
Advanced Course on Environmental Geostatistics
After a short reminder of basic concepts in geostatistics (i.e., variogram computation and modelling, univariate and multivariate kriging), this course will focus on advanced geospatial techniques to tackle three topics: change of spatial support (upscaling,...
METRIC accepted to the NIH Commercialization Accelerator Program
The METRIC project has been accepted to the NIH-CAP (NIH Commercialization Accelerator Program). This highly competitive program was established and administered by the NIH. The program is described here. It is run by Larta, an organization focused on innovation,...
Geospatial Cryptography: enabling researchers to access private, spatially referenced, human subjects data for cancer control and prevention
Protecting confidentiality is mission-critical across the health care continuum, yet poses obstacles for the sharing and analysis of health data. Recent advances in cryptography support the analysis of confidential data in the encrypted space (e.g. make it...
Using SpaceStat to identify Blue Zones (areas with a high proportion of the very old)
Recently my colleague Huang Yi, PhD, Nantong University, and I published a paper that used SpaceStat to find Blue Zones in China. The data came from the Chinese and local governments. After loading and validating the data we used spatial time series methods to...
Phase One $205K Grant Awarded to BioMedware for Joinpoint Regression Analysis of Time Series Data
BioMedware has started new research into taking geographic information into better account when analyzing temporal trends in cancer incidence and mortality rates. The National Cancer Institute has funded a $204,574 grant to BioMedware for this work. BioMedware’s Chief...
Workshops! GIS for Community Impact: From Technology to Translation – Oakland, CA
Save the dates April 13 and 14: Oakland, California April 13: Pre-Workshop Short-course: Space Time Analysis for Health and the Environment This 1-day class will provide instruction on the space-time analysis of data relating health events to potential...
Impact of comorbidities on prostate cancer stage at diagnosis in Florida
URO Today recently published the abstract of a research study by authors Xiao H, Tan F, Goovaerts P, Adunlin G, Ali AA, Gwede CK, and Huang Y. "To examine the association of major types of comorbidity with late-stage prostate cancer, a...
Geoffrey Jacquez’s talk on the future of the CRCSI Health Program
Due to an interrupted flight, Dr. Jacquez's presentation was delivered via video at the CRCSI annual conference in Perth, Australia in November, 2014. The vision addresses opportunities at the forefront of wearable sensors and the genome+, exposome and behavome.
BioMedware is pleased to announce its membership in the 43pl Consortium
The 43pl consortium operates a unit trust which facilitates participation in the CRCSI by a large number of small to medium sized enterprises. Founded in 2003, the CRC for Spatial Information (CRCSI) is a research organisation funded by Australia's Cooperative...
METRIC: Software to Measure Cancer Health Environment Funding Announced
BioMedware announces the award of a contract from the National Cancer Institute titled "METRIC Software to Measure Cancer Health Environment". This is an SBIR Phase 1 contract with a 9 month performance period beginning September 12, 2014. The Principal Investigator...
CRCSI Lecture & Lunch Session with Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez
Friday 22nd August 2014 12:30pm - 2:00pm (Perth, Australia) The CRCSI invite you to attend a short presentation from Geoffrey followed by discussion and networking with colleagues in the Health Program. Geoffrey Jacquez has been the Science Director of the CRCSI...
Dr. Jacquez recently participated in the Swedish Collaboration on Health Roundtable
Source: CRCSI Newsletter Representatives from the CRCSI were invited by Future Position X to attend the GeoLife Research Program Roundtable in Gavle, Sweden. The group participated in an intense series of discussions and meetings over four days to advance the...
Our Changing World: Soil Mapping (Podcast – Radio New Zealand)
Landcare Research scientists are using mobile spectroscopy to analyse soil, allowing geostatisticians to create better soil maps.From Our Changing World, 9:20 pm on 21 November 2013 Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, from BioMedware, explained how the complex...
Geostatistics short course – Perth, Western Australia
In conjunction with CRCSI and WALIS Forum 2013, Dr. Goovaerts will conduct a short course November 6th and 7th. The course will increase your understanding of geostatistics and its application to several disciplines. After completion of this course you will be well...
Just Published: I-HEAT Feasibility Assessment Report
Feasibility Assessment Report: Internet-based Heat Evaluation and Assessment Tool (I-HEAT) Authors: Susan Maxwell (PI), Robert Rommel, Geoffrey Jacquez - BioMedware, Inc.;Marie O’Neill, Kathryn Conlon, Natalie Sampson - University of Michigan School of Public Health...
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez appointed to the Cooperative Research Centres Spatial Information (CRCSI) Health Program Scientific Panel.
Health Program Board has appointed Dr. Jacquez to a 2-year term as Co-Science Director of the CRCSI Health Program.
Advancing the use of GIS and spacial analysis to improve public health: First Annual Western New York GIS Day
Western New York GIS day advances the use of GIS and spatial analysis to improve public health, health services, health planning and health research.
Dr. Goovaerts’ prostate cancer research work recognized by the editors of UroToday
Dr. Goovaerts' journal article abstract, The impact of place and time on the proportion of late-stage diagnosis: The case of prostate cancer in Florida, 1981-2007, has been chosen for publication on the website UroToday.com.
Announcing the release of SpaceStat 3.6 and Jacquez’ Q, our new case-control method
With our latest release, we've included support for our new Q-statistic, appropriately named Jacquez' Q. Q-statistics were developed for evaluating space-time clustering in residential histories of case-control data (Jacquez et al., 2006). Representing...
Video: Geohealth Analysis and Data Visualization: Assessing and demonstrating relationships between dynamic local environments and human health outcomes.
This presentation was given by Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez at the Population Health Data Analysis Conference on February 8th, 2012: Geohealth Analysis and Data Visualization: Assessing and demonstrating relationships between dynamic local environments and human health...
Directions Magazine profile of Geoffrey Jacquez, President, BioMedware
From Directions Magazine: Meet Your Colleagues: Geoffrey Jacquez Ph.D. "This week, we introduce you to Geoffrey Jacquez, president of BioMedware, whose geohealth-focused scientific methods and software tools are used by public health departments around the...
BioMedware: November 2011 Newsletter
Announcing SpaceStat 3.5 with Geostatistical Discretization and Deconvolution Our new SpaceStat release expands support for kriging methods by adding discretization and deconvolution, providing the ability to perform kriging from one geography to another. We've...
Interview with Pierre Goovaerts (en français)
An Interview with Pierre Goovaerts, Chief Scientist at BioMedware, on the occasion of his plenary address “The Role of GIS, Geostatistics and Cancer Atlases in Medical Geography & Environmental Epidemiology” delivered during the symposium “Environment and Health”....
BioMedware: September 2011 Newsletter
Announcing SpaceStat 3 with Geodatabase Integration
BioMedware Joins Esri Partner Network
Partnership Provides an Easy Way for Esri Users to Add SpaceStat’s Advanced Space-Time Analysis Into Their Workflows Ann Arbor, MI – Sept. 6, 2011 – BioMedware, a leader in geohealth software development and research solutions, today announced its membership in the...
Lowering the drinking age is unlikely to curb college binge drinking
Although presidents at some U.S. colleges have argued that lowering the minimum legal drinking age could help curb binge drinking on campuses, a new study in the January issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs suggests such a measure would be ineffective....