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Gerard Rushton retiring from the University of Iowa after 44 years
If anyone happens to be in Iowa City on Friday May 10, please join in celebration of Professor Gerard Rushton’s 44 years of outstanding service to the University of Iowa and the discipline of Geography. For more information about his … Continue reading
CORRECTION: International Medical Geography Symposium Abstracts Due April 26
International Medical Geography Symposium Abstract deadline: April 26, 2013 July 7-12, 2013 Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA The Geography Department at Michigan State University invites you to the XVth International Symposium in Medical/Health … Continue reading
Reminder: International Medical Geography Symposium abstracts are due Wednesday, April 24
International Medical Geography Symposium Abstract deadline: April 24, 2013 July 7-12, 2013 Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA The Geography Department at Michigan State University invites you to the XVth International Symposium in Medical/Health … Continue reading
Upcoming Conferences: IMGS and the Asian Urban Conference
International Medical Geography Symposium Abstract deadline: April 24, 2013 July 7-12, 2013 Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA The Geography Department at Michigan State University invites you to the XVth International Symposium in Medical/Health … Continue reading
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
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
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
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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