From rhoskins@home.com Mon Jul 24 16:19:22 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA80432 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:19:20 -0700 Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (imail@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA27812 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:19:20 -0700 Received: from c501552d ([24.19.225.248]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20000724231919.QHCQ24904.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@c501552d> for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:19:19 -0700 Message-ID: <001701bff5c5$97ac09e0$f8e11318@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Dick Hoskins" To: References: <001a01bf8d1d$95f4ce40$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com><38D8FB80.88E8C089@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu> <397CBF16.6D5BEF04@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu> Subject: Re: SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:19:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Matthew: I am afraid you will not like my response. Get a PhD! An MPH certainly represents a lot of work and accomplishment, but you need more to start or participate in a consulting venture and make some bucks and have some autonomy. If you do not feel you can/want to make that commitment (understandable if you want a broader life experience - at least in the short run) then you will need to find a firm that will take you on. Public health is pretty dead right now, its not on the national agenda - although disease has by no means noticed the political trend. Hope it all works out for you. Contact me anytime. Dick Hoskins rhoskins@home.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Stone" To: Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 3:11 PM Subject: Re: SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS > Dick: > > Yes, you did respond to me and I have convinced my superiors to order the Baily > and Gatrell Book. I have also recently picked up another older book by > Fotheringham and Rogerson called Spatial Analysis and GIS. AM looking forward > to sinking my teeth into that. Meanwhile, I have been playing around with > Rushton's Dmap program looking at IMR's for Harris COunty here in Texas over a 3 > year period. I find that there can be a lot of variation depending on the > filter/grid combinations one uses. I think I have found all the possible user > errors one could make during my hours of "testing". Am planning to look into > CrimeStat too as a method of analysis as soon as I finish a course being taught > here on Spatial Analysis. > > Incidentally, I will be graduating from here with an MPH in another year, > specializing in epidemiology and GIS and am wondering about the job climate out > there. GIS jobs are abundant if you know 2 or 3 programming languages but, like > some other people on this listserve, I dabble with the idea of GIS consulting > for Public Health agencies, providing services such as geocoding, mapping and > various analyses. What do you think about the feasability of such a goal if you > wouldn't mind sharing some of your insight as an epidemiologist with "years" of > experience? Ideally I would like to go back overseas (am a former Peace Corps > volunteer) and provide technical expertise on projects such as WHO's GIS > projects or PAHO's but wonder if this is possible without a Ph.D. > > Any feelings you may have on this issue would be welcome or if you know of some > qualified consulting groups that I might check out, that would be great. I > understand if you don't have time to follow up on this but I will be in touch if > I have further need of assistance for GIS "stuff". > > Matthew Stone > > **************************************************************************** ************************************** > > Matthew Stone > GIS Research Assistant II > University of Texas- School of Public Health > Center for Health Policy--RAS Suite E929 > E-mail: sph2292@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu OR mstone02@hotmail.com > Work 713-500-9395 > Fax 713-500-9493 > > .