Seventh Annual International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference
December 3-5, 2008

Raleigh, North Carolina

 

The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Conference is the premier annual gathering for global leaders in public health, epidemiology, health policy, biostatistics, computer science, and related fields focused on cutting-edge research in biosurveillance and emerging challenges to public health practice. The multi-disciplinary field of disease surveillance brings together biostatistics, mathematical modeling, natural language processing, GIS visualization, and decision theory to address public health challenges including communicable diseases, non-infectious diseases, adverse drug events, and zoonotic outbreaks. In addition to presentations describing novel research, the conference also highlights case studies from real-world surveillance practice by public health practitioners.

Submissions of original research are now being accepted for presentation at the 7th annual conference to be held in Raleigh , North Carolina, December 3-5, 2008. The conference will feature internationally renowned speakers from the WHO, CDC, health departments, leading universities , government agencies, and top industrial organizations from around the world. Representatives of research funding organizations will also be present.

Submission Dates

Submissions will be accepted beginning June 10, 2008. Please check back then.

Submission deadline: July 8, 2008
Late submission deadline: July 31, 2008
(with prior permission from drolson@syndromic.org)
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2008