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GIS IN
HEALTH AND PUBLIC SAFETY
June 05, 2006
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Burnaby
Hilton
6083 McKay Avenue, Burnaby,
Canada V5H2W7
Tel: +1-604-438-1200
Fax: +1-604-431-7782
URISA BC hosted a seminar on GIS in Health and Public Safety
on June 05, 2006 at the Burnaby Hilton Hotel adjacent to Metrotown just
off Kingsway.
The seminar focused on the themes of public safety and public health and
the role of GIS in each. The morning session included several presentations
on public safety issues providing a technology overview, a perspective
from the federal military establishment, a look at wild fire modelling,
and the Alberta experience on data sharing in emergency management situations.
Following lunch, the focus shifted to public health issues.
Again, there were four presentations focusing on mapping and tracking
diseases. The speakers include a noted academic as well as representatives
from the provincial government and the Vancouver Island Health Authority.
The topics ranged from geography of health and disease tracking system
to Avian Influenza and Community Health Atlas.
| 8:00 - 8:30
a.m. |
Registration
Doors Open and Breakfast and coffee |
| INTRODUCTION |
| 8:30 - 9:00
a.m. |
Welcome to the Seminar
- GIS in Health and Public Safety
Jonathan Mark, President URISA BC
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| 9:00 - 9:30
a.m. |
Spatial Technology Trends in Security
and Public Safety
Speaker: Dave Gariepy, Director, Business Development,
Infrastructure Security and Government
Presentation
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| 9:35– 10:05
a.m. |
Canada Command: Critical Infrastructure
Database
Speaker: Rod Woods, 1 Troop/RGST Commander, Mapping
and Charting Establishment, National Defence Headquarters
Presentation
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10:05 -
10:30 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. |
Predictive Wild Fire Modeling
Speaker: Bruce
Blackwell, President, BA Blackwell & Associates
Presentation
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| 11:05 -
11:35 a.m. |
GIS, Information Sharing, and Emergency
Management: Alberta's Vision
Speaker: Colin Blair,
Manager Branch Operations, Alberta Municipal Affairs
Emergency Management Operations
Presentation
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| 11:35 - 12:50 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
| 12:50 - 1:20
p.m. |
Mapping the Boundaries: Cities
of Disease
Speaker: Tom Koch,, Adjunct Professor of
Medical Geography (UBC); Adjunct Professor of Gerontology
(SFU)
Presentation
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| 1:25 - 1:55
p.m. |
An Integrated Approach to West Nile
Virus Surveillance and Planning in BC
Speaker: Sunny Mak, BC Centre for Disease Control
Presentation
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| 1:55 - 2:15
p.m. |
Coffee Break
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| 2:15 - 2:45 p.m. |
Fight Against Avian Influenza -
Role of GIS
Speaker: Gurdeep Singh, GIS Project Manager, Integrated
Land Management Bureau (ILMB), Surrey
Presentation
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| 2:50 - 3:20 p.m. |
Community Health Atlas - Web Based
Tool for Health related Decision Making
Speaker: Brendan Mather, Population Health Analyst
, Vancouver Island Health Authority, Jeremy Bart, Senior GIS
Administrator, Capital Regional District
Presentation
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| 3:20 - 3:40
p.m. |
Closing Remarks and Door Prizes
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