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Program

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Information about the social programme can be found here

Download the Book of Abstracts in PDF format here

Day 1. Wednesday, June 17th
8:30 –Registration
9:00 – 12:00Short Course 1 (Abhi Datta): Statistical and Machine Learning for Geospatial Big Data
Room A-016 (ground floor)
Short Course 2 (Janine Illian): Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modelling with inlabru
Room A-017 (ground floor)
12:00 – 12:30Coffee Break (only for short course participants)
12:30 – 13:00Welcome to GEOMED 2026
Room A-09 (ground floor)
13:00 – 14:00Keynote 1 (Edzer Pebesma): Spatial Data Science for Epidemic Intelligence
Room A-09 (ground floor)
14:00 – 15:30Lunch
15:30 – 17:10IS01: Evaluating Public Health Policies Through Space and Time
Room A-318 (third floor)
IS02: Small Area Estimation Using Complex Survey Data
Room A-321 (third floor)
CS01: Advanced Methods in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling I (Students’ session)
Room A-322 (third floor)
17:10 – 17:40Coffee Break
17:40 – 19:20IS03: Geographical Analysis of Heat-Related Mortality
Room A-318 (third floor)
CS02: Epidemiology and Public Health Applications I
Room A-321 (third floor)
CS03: Machine Learning and Spatio-Temporal Applications in Epidemiology
Room A-322 (third floor)
20:30 – 22:00Welcome Reception

Day 2. Thursday, June 18th
9:00 – 10:00
Keynote 2 (Andrew B. Lawson): Scale and Disease Map Surveillance
Room A-09 (ground floor)
10:00 – 11:40
IS04: Modelling Environmental Determinants of Health: Methods and Applications
Room A-318 (third floor)
IS05: Advancing Spatial Medical Statistics: The Latin American Contribution (Supported by Elsevier)
Room A-321 (third floor)
CS04: Advanced Methods in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling II
Room A-322 (third floor)
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
Room A-318 (third floor)
CS05: Epidemiology and Public Health Applications II
Room A-321 (third floor)
CS06: Machine Learning and Environmental Spatio-Temporal Modeling (Students’ session)
Room A-322 (third floor)
13:50 – 15:30Lunch / Scientific Committee Meeting
15:30 – 17:10
IS07: Emerging challenges in disease mapping
Room A-318 (third floor)
IS08: The Interplay Between Wildlife and Disease Ecology
Room A-321 (third floor)
CS07: Spatial Statistics and Analysis in Substance Use, Mental Health, and HIV
Room A-322 (third floor)
17:10 – 17:40Coffee Break and Poster Session 2
17:40 – 19:20
IS09: Biostatnet’s Contributions to Spatio-Temporal Modeling
Room A-318 (third floor)
IS10: Advances in Computation for Disease Mapping
Room A-321 (third floor)
CS08: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Applications in Epidemiology (Students’ session)
Room A-322 (third floor)
21:00 – Conference dinner
Day 3. Friday, June 19th
9:30 – 11:10IS11: Recent Works in Bayesian Disease Mapping and Related Applications
Room A-318 (third floor)
CS09: Advanced Methods in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling III (Students’ session)
Room A-321 (third floor)

11:10 – 11:45Coffee Break and Poster Session 3
11:45 – 12:45Keynote 3 (Rachel Lowe): Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Emerging Infectious Diseases to Strengthen Resilience Against Climate Change
Room A-09 (ground floor)
12:45 – 14:00SSTE: Elsevier – Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology Journal
Room A-09 (ground floor)
14:00 – 15:30Lunch
15:30 – 17:10IS12: Model-Based Geostatistics for Population Health
Room A-318 (third floor)
CS10: Advanced Methods in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling IV
Room A-321 (third floor)
CS11: Epidemiology and Public Health Applications III (Students’ session)
Room A-322 (third floor)
17:30 – 18:00Awards and closing
Room A-09 (ground floor)