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ISEE 20th Annual Conference, Pasadena, California, October 12-16, 2008

From left to right: Dr. Elena Naumova, Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Rajiv Sarkar, Jyotsna Jagai, Ken Chui, Denise Castronovo (with her baby Alex)

InForMID had a fruitful meeting at the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology 20th annual conference at Pasadena.

We organized a session "Assessing Seasonality for Environmental Epidemiology" through which five speakers share their own point of view on the application and extension of seasonality analysis:

Dr. Elena Naumova for the InForMID, in her talk "Principle of seasonality assessment", concisely lay out the seasonal properties of various health outcomes and how such features can be better understood through the application of seasonality assessment.

Dr. Gagandeep Kang from the Christian Medical College further highlights the need of different specialists in tackling rotaviral infections in developing countries through her talk titled "Seasonality of rotavirus diarrhea: a call for interdisciplinary approach".

Joystna Jagai from InForMID, in her presentation "Variations in seasonal patterns of gastrointestinal infections within a watershed", illustrates yet another angle--linking up the seasonal properties of a disease outcome and environmental exposures.

Kenneth Chui from InForMID shares his findings of applying seasonality assessment to hospitalizations involving a food- and water-borne disease in his talk "Temporal variations in Salmonella infections in the U.S. elderly, 1991-2004".

In the presentation "Visualization of spatial and temporal data with dynamic maps", Denise Castronovo from Mapping Sustainability demonstrates the use of animated maps to explore the association between outcome and multiple exposures in order to generate new insights and testable hypotheses.

Rajiv Sarkar from Christian Medical College shows his poster on the "Seasonality of pediatric enteric infections in tropical climates: time-series analysis of data from a birth cohort on diarrheal disease".

Abstracts submitted to this conference can be found here.