International Summer School 2009
Megacities: Health, Geomatics and Climate Change
7th - 11th September 2009
University of Bielefeld, School of Public Health,
Department of Public Health Medicine
In 2009 the International Summer School Programme “Megacities: Health, Geomatics and Climate Change” is combined with the well-established courses on infectious disease epidemiology (IDE) (website: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/gesundhw/ag2/summerschoolIDE/) and Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health services Research (MLM) (website: http://iph-partnership.org), to improve the knowledge about geo-statistical and epidemiological methods for controlling the predominant health problems of the 21st century.
The course will focus on various dimensions of environment and health in megacities, such as megacity development, demographic and epidemiological transitions, population projection, diseases’ burden, health determinants, and climate change. The aim is to combine theoretical and lab work on statistical/epidemiological and spatially explicit techniques in a transdisciplinary approach.
Our participants will be enabled
- to understand the multidisciplinarity of the problems and their linkages in megacities;
- to learn about epidemiological and demographical transitions in megacities;
- to apply commonly used statistical and geo-statistical techniques in health sciences and geography;
- to work more effectively in collaboration with other disciplines for investigating the existing problems in megacities and
- to develop sustainable strategies for the improvement of living conditions of megacity populations.
A flyer is available for 
download.
For more information and application, please visit this website:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/gesundhw/ag2/summerschoolmc/