The Conference on Migration, Urbanization and Health: The Role of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Monitoring, Surveillance , and Program Evaluation was held on September 25-26, 2003.  Here are all of the presentations.

(All files have been converted from PowerPoint to PDF)

Population Distribution from Remote Sensing

Nighttime Lights Change Detection
     Christopher Elvidge, NOAA

The Process of Urbanization
     John Weeks, San Diego State

Intersecting Small-Area Decennial Census Data with RS Imagery
     Paul Voss, University of Wisconsin

Open discussion about RS/GIS and population assessments
     Stuart Sweeney, UC Santa Barbara

Migration, Urbanization and Health

Population Movements & Epidemics: Space-time patterns . .
     Andrew Cliff, Cambridge University (UK)

Migration, Urbanization, and Malaria on the Amazon Frontier
     Marcia Caldas de Castro, Princeton University
     Roberto Luis Monte-Mor, CEDEPLAR (Brazil)

Housing, Agriculture, and Disease Control
     Andrew Spielman, Harvard University
     Awash Teklahaimanot, Columbia University

     Open discussion and integration of ideas from the presentations
     Sara McLafferty, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

GIS and RS Tools and their Application—1

GIS-RS in Public Health
     Uriel Kitron, University of Illinois
     Louisa Beck, CHAART/NASA

Improving Global Population Estimates
     Deborah Balk, Columbia University, CIESIN

CIESIN and the UN Millennium Project
     Meredith Golden, Columbia University, CIESIN

Open discussion about RS/GIS Technology
     John Hasse, Rowan University

GIS and RS Tools and their Application—2

LandScan
     Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
     Eddie Bright, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Integrating Census and Survey Data
     Don de Savigny, Swiss Tropical Institute

Open discussion about RS/GIS in diverse applications
     Christopher Small, Columbia University

Policy and Interventions

RS/GIS in Urban Child Health Policies
     Mark Becker – Columbia University, CIESIN
     Meredith Golden, Presenter – Columbia University, CIESIN

Policy Interventions and the Role of RS/GIS

Scaling-up Interventions to National Levels
     Yoichi Yamagata, Japan International Cooperation Agency

Identifying Targets for Urban Disease Control
     Burt Singer, Princeton University
     Marcia Caldas de Castro, Princeton University

Open discussion of the RS/GIS – Policy interface
     Mark L. Wilson, University of Michigan

Panel Discussion and Summary of Where We Are and Next Steps

Andrew Cliff, Cambridge University (UK)

Christopher Elvidge, NOAA

     Don de Savigny, Swiss Tropical Institute