GEOMED 2024

GEOMED is a bi-annual, international, interdisciplinary conference on spatial statistics, geographical epidemiology and public health. The conference focuses both on the developments in methodology and the applications of methods for spatial and spatio-temporal data in public health. GEOMED 2024 is organized by the Data Science Institute of Hasselt University (Belgium). It will take place in Hasselt, a beautiful city in Belgium, from 9 until 11 September 2024.

The selected key topics for this edition are: 
- Geographical modeling of infectious diseases 
- Geographical modeling of health in low-income countries 
- Environmental epidemiology and climate change 

Next to this, a range of topics will be represented. They include (but are not limited to): 
- Geo-referenced health data 
- Disease mapping 
- Risk assessment for public health 
- Computational methods for analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data 
- Visualization methods 
- Geostatistical modeling 
- Spatial and spatio-temporal health surveillance 
- Novel methodology for spatial data 
- Deep learning methods for spatial data analyses 
- Cluster detection and epidemic outbreaks