The GeoMed Project

In 1998 the University of Michigan and software company BioMedware received a two-year grant funded by the Small business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) program of the National Cancer Institute. The objectives of this grant are

• to produce software for surveillance and analysis of disease clusters, local spatial autocorrelation statistics, and related techniques (GeoMed), and
• to prepare and evaluate educational modules for teaching spatial analytic theory and methods applied to human health data, and to use those modules in the classroom (in a course we call ``Spatial Epidemiology'').

We thus describe a work in progress: we have offered the course once, and will offer it again this winter term. In the meantime, we continue to develop and (we hope) improve the course modules and software. In the following we present the preliminary products of our venture, and share with you the exciting prospects for collaboration and distance education offered by our web site.