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Please Welcome the New HMGSG Board Members:

1. Chair: Brian Brossak, Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University.(bbossak@georgiasouthern.edu) 2. Vice Chair: Mei-Po Kwan, Professor, University of Urbana Champaign (mpk654@gmail.com) 3. At-Large members: Anniruddha Banerjee, Associate Professor, IUPUI (rbanerje@iupui.edu) 4. At-Large members: Eric Delmelle, Assistant Professor, UNC-Charlotte (eric.delmelle@uncc.edu) 5. Student … Continue reading

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Congratulations to the 2013 Award Winners

Jacques May Dissertation Award Number of applications: 7-Phd and 5-MA Dissertation Award: Paul Delamater, Michigan State University Access to Hospitals in a Regulated Health Care System: Implications for Utilization Master’s Thesis Award Warren Jochem, University of Colorado-Boulder Child Mortality from … Continue reading

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A fond farewell from HMGSG Webmaster-Emeritus Bob Earickson

The following note currently appears the HMGSG legacy site left by Bob Earickson: I became interested in Medical Geography for the first time in 1966 when I worked on a hospital use research project in Chicago for a year. I … Continue reading

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The NEW Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group website

The Mission of the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group 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 … Continue reading

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