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The International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS) 2026 

Visit the website to register and submit your abstract!! We are excited to announce that the 2026 IMGS will be held in the City of Toronto July 12-17 2026, hosted jointly by the University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Ontario Tech University. … Continue reading

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HMGSG Board Elections!

Hi everyone, HMGSG board elections opened March 3rd , 2025!  If you voted prior to 2:00 US eastern time on Monday, please revisit the link to register your vote once more.  We are tracking location/duplicates on the back end, but … Continue reading

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2025 Spring Newsletter Out Now!

Hot off the presses, check out our newsletter here! It includes (nearly) all the info you need for the upcoming AAG Annual Meeting, including dates & times of our business meeting & social, our invited talks, recent member papers & … Continue reading

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HMGSG Board Elections!

The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group is seeking nominations for the following positions for the 2025-2026 Board: – 2 At-Large Board Members – 2 Graduate Student Members These board members serve two-year terms (running from the business meeting this … Continue reading

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Emory Postdoctoral Fellow in Remote Sensing and AI for Urban Malaria Control

Drs. Huang and Vazquez-Prokopec at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University, are seeking an outstanding and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher whose interests focus on the application of image processing and deep learning algorithms to environmental problems. The successful applicant will join a multidisciplinary … Continue reading

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HMGSG Newsletter Items & Upcoming Annual Meeting!!!

The Health & Medical Geography Specialty Group is putting together the annual newsletter! Please send any of the following that you’d like included in the newsletter by January 31st, 2025 to  (rsadler4@gmail.com):       -any new/big grants (especially NIH, NSF, NEH, … Continue reading

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The fifth Health Data Visualization Contest

The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) is pleased to announce the fifth year of the Health Data Visualization Contest. The past winners can be found here. This year we will offer monetary awards for winners. The contest deadline is Wednesday, … Continue reading

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Jacques May Thesis Award 2025

Deadline: AAG Paper Abstract Submission Deadline (November 15th, 2024) The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) of the AAG is accepting submissions for the Jacques May Thesis Prize. Since 1985, the prize has been awarded to Master’s and doctoral students addressing themes … Continue reading

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Peter Gould Student Paper Award

Peter Gould Student Paper Award 2025 Deadline: October 31, 2024 Description: The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) of the AAG invites current undergraduate and graduate students to submit their work to the specialty group’s annual Peter Gould Student … Continue reading

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HMGSG 2024 SPEAKER SERIES

On behalf of HMGSG, I am excited to announce our first set of talks part of our Speaker Series. Please Join us on Monday , November 4th at 1 PM EST . We will hear from Dr. Avery Rose Everhart ( University of British … Continue reading

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