Tentative Program
The detailed preliminary program can be downloaded in PDF format
| Day 1. Wednesday, June 17th |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | Short Course 1 (Abi Datta): Statistical and Machine Learning for Geospatial Big Data | Short Course 2 (Janine Illian): INLABRU |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Coffee Break / Registration |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Welcome to GEOMED 2026 |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Keynote 1 (Edzer Pebesma): Spatial Data Science for Epidemic Intelligence |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Lunch |
| 15:30 – 17:10 | IS01: Evaluating Public Health Policies Through Space and Time | IS02: Small Area Estimation Using Complex Survey Data | CS01: Advanced Methods in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling I (Student) |
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| 17:10 – 17:40 | Coffee Break |
| 17:40 – 19:20 | IS03: Geographical Analysis of Heat-Related Mortality | CS02: Epidemiology and Public Health Applications I | CS03: Machine Learning and Spatio-Temporal Applications in Epidemiology |
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| 20:30 – 22:00 | Reception |
| Day 2. Thursday, June 18th |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Keynote 2 (Andrew B. Lawson): Scale and Disease Map Surveillance |
| 10:00 – 11:40 | IS04: Modelling Environmental Determinants of Health: Methods and Applications | IS05: Advancing Spatial Medical Statistics: The Latin American Contribution (Supported by Elsevier) | CS04: Advanced Methods in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling II | CS05: Epidemiology and Public Health Applications II |
| 11:40 – 12:10 | Coffee Break and Poster Session 1 |
| 12:10 – 13:50 | IS06: On Issues of Confounding and Computation for Spatial Statistical Models | CS06: Geospatial and Urban Health Applications | CS07: Machine Learning and Environmental Spatio-Temporal Modeling (Student)
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| 13:50 – 15:30 | Lunch / Scientific Committee Meeting |
| 15:30 – 17:10 | IS07: Emerging challenges in disease mapping | IS08: The Interplay Between Wildlife and Disease Ecology | CS08: Spatial Statistics and Analysis in Substance Use, Mental Health, and HIV
| CS09: Epidemiology and Public Health Applications III (Student)
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| 17:10 – 17:40 | Coffee Break and Poster Session 2 |
| 15:30 – 17:10 | IS09: Biostatnet’s Contributions to Spatio-Temporal Modeling | IS10: Advances in Computation for Disease Mapping | CS10: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Applications in Epidemiology (Student)
| CS11: Climate Change and Environmental Epidemiology I
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| 21:00 – | Conference dinner |
| Day 2. Thursday, June 18th |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Keynote 2 (Andrew B. Lawson): Scale and Disease Map Surveillance |
| 10:00 – 11:40 | IS04: Modelling Environmental Determinants of Health: Methods and Applications | IS05: Advancing Spatial Medical Statistics: The Latin American Contribution (Supported by Elsevier) | CS04: Advanced Methods in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling II | CS05: Epidemiology and Public Health Applications II |
| 11:40 – 12:10 | Coffee Break and Poster Session 1 |
| 12:10 – 13:50 | IS06: On Issues of Confounding and Computation for Spatial Statistical Models | CS06: Geospatial and Urban Health Applications | CS07: Machine Learning and Environmental Spatio-Temporal Modeling (Student)
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| 13:50 – 15:30 | Lunch / Scientific Committee Meeting |
| 15:30 – 17:10 | IS07: Emerging challenges in disease mapping | IS08: The Interplay Between Wildlife and Disease Ecology | CS08: Spatial Statistics and Analysis in Substance Use, Mental Health, and HIV
| CS09: Epidemiology and Public Health Applications III (Student)
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| 17:10 – 17:40 | Coffee Break and Poster Session 2 |
| 15:30 – 17:10 | IS09: Biostatnet’s Contributions to Spatio-Temporal Modeling | IS10: Advances in Computation for Disease Mapping | CS10: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Applications in Epidemiology (Student)
| CS11: Climate Change and Environmental Epidemiology I
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| 21:00 – | Conference dinner |
