NIH Funding Opportunity on Spatial Uncertainty and Q&A

• Activity Number: 290
• Type: Topic Contributed
• Date/Time: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
• Author(s): Li Zhu*+
• Companies: National Cancer Institute
• Keywords: spatial ; uncertainty ; visualization ; funding

Abstract

Spatial uncertainty (SU) is ever present in public health problems - from data collection and model specification to interpretation, visualization, and communication. The quality of geospatial information in the original data can be uncertain. Statistical methods contribute to analytical effects of SU through the choice of assumptions and available methods to analyze different data. SU also arises from the choice of methods to visualize disease patterns and relationships between variables. NIH has a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on this topic (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-238.html). Serving as a Program Director at the National Cancer Institute, the presenter will briefly introduce the NIH funding mechanisms and review process, with particular emphasis on the current funding opportunity on "Spatial Uncertainty". Questions will be taken with regard to the general grant process and the "Spatial Uncertainty" FOA.