Event Description
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Seminar
Andrew Lawson, PhD
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Public Health sciences
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Medical University of South Carolina
Andrew B. Lawson is a MUSC Distinguished University Professor, an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and is a World Health Organization (WHO) advisor on Disease Mapping. He organized with the WHO an International workshop on this topic which led to an edited volume “Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health”. He has over 160 peer-reviewed papers in the area of spatial epidemiology and disease mapping and recently acted as chief editor of the CRC Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology (2016). He has published a number of books focused on disease mapping and spatial epidemiology, including the 3rd Edition of Bayesian Disease Mapping CRC Press, which will appear in June 2018. He is also founding chief editor of the Elsevier journal Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology
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