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.. date: 2013/07/03 09:16:24
.. title: 1st Symposium on Big Data and Public Health
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.. admonition:: Talk and poster submission is over.
    
    The Symposium was a big Success! Thanks to all that participated. Presentations and audio and video recordings can be found in the `Media page <media.html>`_ .
    
    Thank you for participating!


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Public health issues have one feature in common which is the scale. Understanding health issues in large populations, require not only highly multi-dimensional datasets, but also detailed historical data geographically localized covering entire countries if not continents or the entire Globe.

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The large volumes of data and the computational, mathematical and statistical tools necessary for the efficient analysis of such problems, fuel very active and innovative research communities.

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In this Symposium, we aim to bring together researchers from the various fields above to present their most recent work and discuss the challenges of Big data and Public Health in the 21st century.

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**Location: Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro** -
**Dates: 24-25/10/2013**

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Organizers
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* Flávio Codeço Coelho - EMAp/FGV
* Cláudia Torres Codeço - Fiocruz
* Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro - INPE
* Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz - Fiocruz
* Christovam Barcellos - Fiocruz

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.. admonition:: All talks will be in English / Todas as palestras serão em Inglês.

    Because of the international nature of this gathering, English will be the official language. /
    Devido à natureza internacional deste encontro, todas as palestras serão em Inglês.

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Scientific Comittee
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* Flávio Codeço Coelho - EMAp/FGV
* Cláudia Torres Codeço - Fiocruz
* Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro - INPE
* Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz - Fiocruz
* Christovam Barcellos - Fiocruz
* Asla Medeiros e Sá - EMAp/FGV
* Renato Rocha Souza - EMAp/FGV
* Crysttian Arantes Paixão - EMAp/FGV
* Leonardo Santos - Cemaden 
* Gilberto Câmara - INPE
* Trevor Bailey - University of Exeter
* Edzer Pebesma - University of Münster
* Maurício Barreto - UFBA