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Two Days Pre-Congress Workshop on Spatial
Epidemiology and Mathematical Modelling

Venue : Makmal Komputer, Block A2, Level 2, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UMS

Date   : 05th Sept - 06th Sept 2023

Aims of the workshop:-

  • Provide an overview of the types and structure of spatial objects in R

  • Generating and manipulating spatial objects, projections and transformations

  • Cropping and masking spatial objects

  • Extracting covariate data

  • Plotting interactive maps

Limited to 25 participants
Bring your own devices

Tentative Program

10:00 am

Time 

08:30 am

5th September 2023

03:45 pm

05:00 pm

Program

Registration

OPENING CEREMONY

Welcome message & Introduction of the workshop:

Prof. Dr. Kamruddin Ahmed

Group Photo

LECTURE 1: Introduction to Geographical Information Systems; Spatial Epidemiology, main R packages for handling/editing/plotting spatial objects.

Dr. Luca Nelli

MORNING TEA BREAK

LECTURE 1: (cont.)

Introduction to Geographical Information Systems; Spatial Epidemiology, main R packages for handling/editing/plotting spatial objects.

Dr. Luca Nelli

LUNCH

PRACTICAL 1: Dealing with vectors (points, lines and polygons) and rasters.

Dr. Luca Nelli

TEA BREAK

PRACTICAL 1: (cont.)

Dealing with vectors (points, lines and polygons) and rasters.

Dr. Luca Nelli

End of Workshop (Day 1)

08:45 am

12:00 pm

01:00pm

10:15 am

03:30 pm

09:00 am

Time 

Program

08: 30 am

PRACTICAL 2: Extraction of covariates for spatial analyses

Dr. Luca Nelli

MORNING TEA BREAK

PRACTICAL 2: (cont.)

Extraction of covariates for spatial analyses

Dr. Luca Nelli

LUNCH

 

PRACTICAL 3: Generating predictions and maps of expected risk

Dr. Luca Nelli

11:30 am

6th September 2023

TEA BREAK

Q&A SESSION

End Ceremony and certificate distribution 

End of Workshop (Day 2)

05:00 pm

04:00 pm

01:00 pm

09: 30 am

12:00 pm

03:45 pm

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