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Health and Medical Geography A Specialty Group of the …

WebIMGS Student Travel Awards. The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) of the American Association of Geographers is offering up to two travel awards for the International …

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Geospatial Health Research Symposium Health and Medical …

WebTBD! Geospatial Health Research Symposium AAG Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii. April 16-20, 2024 Organizers: Amber Pearson (Michigan State University) Richard Sadler (Michigan State University) In this symposium we would like to bring together national and international scholars, practitioners, and policy makers from different specialties, …

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The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group presents its …

WebThis seminar series examines the different applications of medical geography using Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods. We have two presentations titled:1) What can geography contribute to our understanding of health and wellbeing?2) Spatial autologistic model to predict the presence of arsenic in private wells across …

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The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group …

WebThe Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group presents its 2022 Speaker Series. Posted on October 13, 2022 by hmgsg2021. On behalf of HMGSG, I am excited to announce our first set …

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The 20th International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS 24)

WebThe overarching theme for this symposium is “Health & Medical Geography in a Changing World: Looking Back and Moving Forward.“ Registration. Registration and abstract submissions are now open at https://imgs2024.org Registration and abstract submissions are now open. Early registration deadline ends March 31, 2024.

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HMGSG NEWSLETTER 2024 OUT AND AVAILABLE!! Health and …

WebPlease check out the 2024 HMGSG Newsletter Spring 2024 . In it, you will find sponsored sessions at the 2024 AAG in Honolulu, special presentations and details about past award winners, and our upcoming social event (April 18, 5-8pm). You will also find a QR code to vote for changes to the bylaws and a…

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Mission Statement Health and Medical Geography

WebMission Statement. To provide a forum for disseminating research on health and well-being, disease, illness, spatial epidemiology, disease ecology, population health, ethnomedicine and non-Western understandings of health and medicine, spatial aspects of health care delivery, and health care policy and political economy.

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Profile: Susan Elliott Health and Medical Geography

WebDr. Elliott is a medical geographer whose research and teaching interests revolve around the environment, and health, the global environment, urban social geography, and philosophy and method in the social sciences. Susan Elliott holds an undergraduate degree in Urban and Environmental Studies combined with Sociology from Brock University (1985

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Profile: Ge Lin Health and Medical Geography

WebDr. Ge Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Health Services Research Administration, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center USA. Dr. Lin's research and teaching focus on GIS-health, spatial demography and spatial modeling. He has been supported by NIH, NIJ, NSF and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

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Profile: Debarchana Ghosh Health and Medical Geography

WebDebarchana Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Connecticut, USA. Deb's research employs an interdisciplinary approach to investigate health and environmental issues. She combines health and medical geography concepts and theories with geospatial technologies such as GIScience, modeling, machine …

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Profile: John Eyles Health and Medical Geography

WebDr. John Eyles, University Distinguished Professor of Geography, and Departments of Clinical epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Sociology, as well as the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. John's research interests include health and medical geography, environmental health, health …

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Profile: David Lopez-Carr Health and Medical Geography

WebSpecific health-related projects include evaluation and planning integrated population, health, and environment programs in global priority conservation zones, working for Direct Relief International on mapping health-environment dynamics, and for the Obama administration’s $63 billion six-year Global Health Initiative. His university courses

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Profile: Sue C. Grady Health and Medical Geography

WebSue Grady, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, State University of New York at Albany, USA. Dr. Grady's principal research focus is health disparities and the reproductive health of African-American women in the United States. She is also interested in health disparities …

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Profile: George Christakos Health and Medical Geography

WebGeorge Christakos, Distinguished Professor of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, California USA. Dr. Christakos' research focuses on space-time modelling and mapping of interdisciplinary systems, including medical geography, mathematical epidemiology, and health risk assessment. George was formerly a Professor at the …

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Profile: Nancy Davis Lewis Health and Medical Geography

WebNancy Lewis received her BA (Psychology, 1968), MA (Geography, 1974), MS (Health and Medical Sciences, 1976), and PHD (Geography, 1981) from the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the Geography Department at the University of Hawaii in 1981 and held appointments there as assistant, associate and full professor until she became

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Profile: Helen Hazen Health and Medical Geography

WebDr Helen Hazen, Visiting Professor, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Helen focuses on the intersection of environment and health, especially as related to infectious disease. Helen was born and raised in the United Kingdom, and received a B.A. in Geography from Oxford University in 1996. After several years working in environmental …

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Profile: Daniel Exeter Health and Medical Geography

WebDaniel Exeter, Lecturer, Section of Epidemiology Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Daniel's research interests include geographical health inequalities, spatial analysis, spatial and social epidemiology, and zone design. Daniel was the recipient of the 2005 MGSG Jacques May Thesis Prize. Daniel Exeter …

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Profile: Jim Holt Health and Medical Geography

WebJim Holt earned his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Georgia in 2003, as a doctoral student of the late Dr. C.P. Lo. Jim has been with CDC since 1992, originally joining the agency as a Presidential Management Intern following the completion of his M.P.A. at Texas A M University. He served in a variety of management roles, culminating

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Profile: Peter Anthamatten Health and Medical Geography

WebPeter’s research interests focus on childhood obesity, GIS-Health, geographic education, and quantitative methods. Peter was born near Chicago and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He earned his B.A. in German, political science (international affairs), and geography at the University of Missouri Columbia in 1997. He proceeded to the

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Profile: Ellen Cromley Health and Medical Geography

WebProfile: Ellen Cromley. Dr. Ellen Cromley, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center. Ellen is a former Chairperson of the HMGSG. Ellen’s expertise lies in public health applications of GIS and health and social services location analysis. Updated: January, 2011.

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Profile: Michael V. Hayes Health and Medical Geography

WebMichael Hayes, Director of Health Eduction and Research at the University of Victoria. Michael's research interests involve social geographies of health, disability and public policy. He was North American editor of Health and Place (Pergamon) until the end of 2003. Michael Hayes took three degrees (Bachelor of Arts - Honours, 1979; Master of Health …

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Awards Health and Medical Geography

WebA $100 prize will be awarded in each of two categories: 1) undergraduate students, and 2) graduate students (Master’s and Doctoral). The deadline for abstract submissions is November 17th , 2022. The Jacques May Thesis Prize is awarded to Master’s and doctoral theses addressing themes in health and medical geography broadly defined, as

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