Welcome to R-Ladies Rome

R for geospatial data science and public health surveillance
Speaker: Dr. Paula Moraga

16 April, 2024

Disclaimer

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Use the chat for introducing yourself and ask questions (or raise your hand ✋)

What to expect from this talk?

Discover the indispensable role of geospatial health data in shaping public health strategies and policies.
Gain insights into how these data discover temporal patterns, identify risk factors, and enable rapid outbreak detection.
Delve into the world of Geospatial with R, enhancing your understanding of public health dynamics.

Welcome Everyone!

Welcome to our April event hosted by R-Ladies Rome! I’m Federica Gazzelloni, chapter’s organizer of R-Ladies Rome, and I’m thrilled to have you all here tonight. We’re also delighted to be joined by Silvana Acosta and Rafaela Ribeiro Lucas. Today, we have the honor of welcoming our speaker, Dr. Paula Moraga, author of Spatial Statistics for Data Science and Geospatial Health Data.

What is R-Ladies?

R-Ladies is a global organization with the mission of promoting the R language and for empowering women at all user levels by building a collaborative global network.
It is a gender diversity friendly community founded in 2012 by Gabriela de Queiroz in San Francisco.

R-Ladies is now a world-wide organization with 219 chapters in 63 countries, 3943 events and more than 93,000 members globally. For more information, please visit rladies.org

R-Ladies Rome is a local chapter of R-Ladies Global dedicated to promoting gender diversity in the R language community. Our monthly meetings provide a platform to discuss current trends and hot topics in R, and we encourage active participation and engagement from all attendees. We welcome your suggestions and comments, and invite you to get in touch to join our vibrant community.

Organizers and Volunteers:

Founder of the chapter is Claudia Vitolo, and Co-founder of R-Ladies Global.

Lead Organizer of the chapter is Federica Gazzelloni

Organizers are Silvana Acosta and Rafaela Ribeiro Lucas

We are always open to new joiners, so if you’d like to contribute to our Rome chapter and being a co-organizer let us know: https://forms.gle/SkBiab8LhLcehpKu6

January - Introduction to Quarto with Torin White & R-Ladies Paris
February 17 - Building a CahtBot with Shiny and R with James Wade & TunisR User Group
February 20 - Debugging in R with Shannon Pileggi
March 22 - Vetiver and model deployment with Isabel Zimmerman
April 16 - R for geospatial data science and public health surveillance with Dr. Paula Moraga
May 24 - An Evening with Dr.Hadley Wickham

Future Speakers:

rOpenSci with Yanina Bellini Saibene
Nasa-Openescapes with Julia Stewart Lowndes
Internal Revenue Service - Data Scientist with Gwynn Gebeyehu

Please scan this QR code or head to https://slido.com and type #geohealth

Today’s presentation

It’s now time to hand the floor over to our esteemed speaker.

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Paula Moraga, Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Science and Technology - KAUST.

With a Master’s in Biostatistics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Valencia, Dr. Moraga brings extensive expertise in geospatial data analysis and health surveillance.

Her research has influenced policy decisions, addressing diseases like malaria and cancer globally. Dr. Moraga’s contributions include developing R packages for risk modeling and disease surveillance and creating educational materials.

Let’s warmly welcome Dr. Paula Moraga.