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Just Published: I-HEAT Feasibility Assessment Report
by Susan Hinton | Jan 15, 2013 | GIS Technology
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.
by Susan Hinton | Jan 10, 2013 | BioMedware News
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
by Susan Hinton | Nov 15, 2012 | BioMedware News
Western New York GIS day advances the use of GIS and spatial analysis to improve public health, health services, health planning and health research.
Researchers suggest geographic boundary analysis to detect shift in species distributions in response to climate change
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Oct 25, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
Quantifying the spatial relationship between bird species’ distributions and landscape feature boundaries in southern Ontario, Canada
Drugs recalled by New England Compounding Center: The tip of the iceberg?
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Oct 17, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
As hypotheses are tested and rejected, the remaining hypotheses are those that plausibly might explain the observed pattern. But how often do we include medications contaminated with foreign agents — fungus, bacteria, or otherwise — in our set of explanatory hypotheses? Until now, rarely, if ever. What we are learning from the New England Compounding Center is that contaminated medications largely explain the observed outbreak of fungal meningitis.
Genetic GIS: A call and a research agenda.
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Oct 5, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
Genetic GIS provides a comprehensive model of human health and its determinants including genetic, environmental and behavioral dimensions.
Dr. Goovaerts’ prostate cancer research work recognized by the editors of UroToday
by Susan Hinton | Aug 31, 2012 | BioMedware News
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
by Susan Hinton | May 20, 2012 | BioMedware News
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.
by Susan Hinton | Mar 29, 2012 | BioMedware News
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
by Susan Hinton | Feb 27, 2012 | BioMedware News
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...