Laboratory of GIS-Technologies and Bioinformatics

The laboratory of GIS-technologies and Bioinformatics was established in 2013 to develop modern information technologies in the system of epidemiological surveillance and monitoring of relevant infectious and parasitic diseases of the population in the Volga Federal District. The work of the laboratory is based on cooperation with the representative office of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District and Rospotrebnadzor offices in the subjects of the district, as well as scientific organizations of Rospotrebnadzor in the field of monitoring of infectious and parasitic diseases.

Directions of activities:

• Analysis and forecast of infectious disease incidence (visualization, trends, modeling).

• Conducting retrospective and operational epidemiological analysis of infections relevant to the Volga Federal District, forecasting the development of the epidemiological situation.

• Improving spatial analysis methods in epidemiology based on GIS technologies.

• Determining priority areas of scientific developments of the institute based on the results of epidemiological analysis.

• Development of geoinformation software packages, additional analytical and thematic modules aimed at solving problems in the field of public health protection in the Russian Federation.

• Development and improvement of analytical tools and optimization of interactive capabilities.

Laboratory achievements:

• A protocol for obtaining initial data from hygiene and epidemiology centers (HEC) and/or territorial offices of Rospotrebnadzor in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation of the Volga Federal District (VFD) has been developed.
• Certificates of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property on state registration of the Electronic Epidemiological Atlas databases have been received, including 2015 - 1, 2017 - 14, 2018 - 15, 2019 - 15, 2020 - 16, 2021 - 16, 2022 - 24
• A new version of the epidemiological atlas of the Volga Federal District has been implemented, accumulating data on infectious and parasitic morbidity in 14 constituent entities of the Volga Federal District with a spatial resolution of up to the administrative district.
• Additional analytical modules on current infectious and parasitic diseases have been created to improve the quality of epidemiological monitoring and the formation of data on trends in epidemic processes in the subjects of the Volga Federal District.
• A prototype of the GIS "Epidemiological Atlas of Russia" has been created, accumulating data on infectious and parasitic morbidity for all nosological forms of infectious and parasitic morbidity in the subjects of the Russian Federation.

Prospects:

• Improvement of the epidemiological atlas of the federal district for subsequent transfer to regional (district) centers for monitoring of infectious diseases in the relevant federal districts of the Russian Federation.
• Elaboration of electronic epidemiological atlas of Russia.
• Improvement of the application methodology of GIS-technologies in the system of epidemiological surveillance and monitoring of relevant infectious and parasitic diseases of the population.

Phone: +7(831) 469-79-61 

E-mail: lab.gis@nniiem.ru

Address: 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Malaya Yamskaya st., 71, 7th floor.

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