CORRECTION: International Medical Geography Symposium Abstracts Due April 26

Posted on April 25, 2013 by hmgsg2021

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 Geography (IMGS 2013) on our campus in East Lansing, Michigan. Come for a fun and productive symposium. Plenary, paper, and poster sessions will be held in the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on campus. Our field trip includes a visit to the sand dunes from the glacial period and beach picnic on the shores of Lake Michigan. We have two international airports for your convenience – Detroit Metro, MI and Chicago O’Hare, IL with connecting transportation to East Lansing. Michigan State University is one of the oldest Land Grant Universities in the United States and the architecture and campus provides a beautiful setting for the upcoming symposium. Our 32 geography faculty and 175+ graduate and undergraduate students are eager to welcome you to the upcoming IMGS!

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Reminder: International Medical Geography Symposium abstracts are due Wednesday, April 24

Posted on April 23, 2013 by hmgsg2021

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 Geography (IMGS 2013) on our campus in East Lansing, Michigan. Come for a fun and productive symposium. Plenary, paper, and poster sessions will be held in the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on campus. Our field trip includes a visit to the sand dunes from the glacial period and beach picnic on the shores of Lake Michigan. We have two international airports for your convenience – Detroit Metro, MI and Chicago O’Hare, IL with connecting transportation to East Lansing. Michigan State University is one of the oldest Land Grant Universities in the United States and the architecture and campus provides a beautiful setting for the upcoming symposium. Our 32 geography faculty and 175+ graduate and undergraduate students are eager to welcome you to the upcoming IMGS!

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Upcoming Conferences: IMGS and the Asian Urban Conference

Posted on April 18, 2013 by hmgsg2021

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 Geography (IMGS 2013) on our campus in East Lansing, Michigan. Come for a fun and productive symposium. Plenary, paper, and poster sessions will be held in the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on campus. Our field trip includes a visit to the sand dunes from the glacial period and beach picnic on the shores of Lake Michigan. We have two international airports for your convenience – Detroit Metro, MI and Chicago O’Hare, IL with connecting transportation to East Lansing. Michigan State University is one of the oldest Land Grant Universities in the United States and the architecture and campus provides a beautiful setting for the upcoming symposium. Our 32 geography faculty and 175+ graduate and undergraduate students are eager to welcome you to the upcoming IMGS!

 

2. Asian Urban Conference (health is one of the focus areas)

December 28-30, 2013
Dept. of Geography
Banares Hindu University
Varanasi, U.P., India
The Asian Urban Research Association (AURA) is an association of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the exchange of views and experiences on cities, metropolitan areas, urbanization, and closely related social, economic, political, and environmental issues in the Asian context. AURA promotes and accomplishes a dialogue that shares research, planning, and problem-solving through the Asian Urbanization Conference series, publications, a newsletter, and the sharing of professional contacts. Current efforts are focused on the 12th Asian Urbanization Conference scheduled for December 28-30, 2013, details of which are provided below and on other pages.

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission April 30, 2013
Abstract Acceptance Notification May 31, 2013
End of Early Bird Registration May 15, 2013
Full Paper Submission June 30, 2013
Conference December 28-30, 2013
Field Trips to the Ganga Riverfront, in Varanasi City, and the Buddhist sites at Sarnath are scheduled for December 29 and December 31. See registration packet for details.
Registration Fees:

Before 16th May, 2013 (“Early Bird” Rates)
Rs. 1200 – Indian Nationals
$50 (USD) –SAARC Country Scholars / Practitioners
$100 (USD) –Rest Developing Country Scholars / Practitioners
$150 (USD) – Developed /High Income Country Scholars / Practitioners
Accompanying Person Registration Fee: The same amount as applicable in case of his/her own associated member.

After May 15, 2013
Rs. 1500 – Indian Nationals
$75 (USD) –SAARC Country Scholars / Practitioners
$125 (USD) –Rest Developing Country Scholars / Practitioners
$175 (USD) – Developed /High Income Country Scholars / Practitioners
Accompanying Person Registration Fee: The same amount as applicable in case of his/her own associated member.

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Please Welcome the New HMGSG Board Members:

Posted on April 18, 2013 by hmgsg2021

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 members: Christopher Hartmann, Ohio State University (chris.d.hartmann@gmail.com)
6. Webmaster: Kevin Matthews, University of Iowa (kevin-matthews@uiowa.edu)

Continuing Members:
At-Large members: Chris Uejio, Florida State University (ckuejio@gmail.com)
Student members: Mike Allen, Kent State University (mallen34@kent.edu)
Student members (Under-graduate): Dylan Simone, McMaster University (simond2@mcmaster.ca)

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Profiles in Health Geography: Gavin Andrews

Posted on April 18, 2013 by hmgsg2021

Originally Posted January 2009

Updated:  TBA

AndrewsG_smDr. Gavin J. Andrews, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Aging and Society, McMaster University. Gavin’s research is focused primarily on ageing and/or professional health care. He has, however, written on a wide range of other health issues and likes to engage with many fields of health geography.
Gavin received an undergraduate degree in human geography from Lampeter University in 1992 and a PhD in medical/health geography from University of Nottingham in 1997. Formerly a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Health Studies in the UK, in 2001, Gavin was appointed as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. In 2006, he accepted his present Chair position at McMaster.

His research contributes to the following four fields of sub-disciplinary inquiry – ‘the geography of health care organizations and work’; ‘the geography of aging’; ‘the geography of sport and fitness’ and ‘the geography of CAM’. He has investigated a wide range of subjects within and beyond these fields including small business situations and cultures; nursing management and education; phobias and health and health care in wartime. Gavin has produced over 100 publications. He recently co-edited three books: Ageing and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice (Routledge, 2005), Sociology of Ageing: a Reader (Rawat, 2008) and Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place (Ashgate, 2009). His latest positiion paper on ‘the geography of health care work’ is avaliable in Progress in Human Geography (2008, 32, 6)

Gavin has obtained operating grants totaling $Cn666,000 from a number of funding sources, including the British National Health Service, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. As both PI and co-PI, he has been involved in grants valued at over $2 million. He is the North American Editor for International Journal of Older People Nursing, and Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Gerontology. He also advises Integrative Medicine in Cancer Care; Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice; Middle East Journal of Age and Ageing; and Asian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics.

 

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Congratulations to the 2013 Award Winners

Posted on April 17, 2013 by hmgsg2021

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 Lower Respiratory Infections and the Effect of Arsenic-contaminated Drinking Water in Rural Bangladesh

Honorary Mention
Skye Naslund, University of Washington
Portraits of Parasites:  Geographic Imaginaries in the Production of Health Knowledge

Peter Gould Best Student Paper Award
PhD
Rory Horner, Clark University
Rising Powers As Harbingers Of Public-health Oriented Patent Law? The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry And Economic Geographies Underlying Health

Appreciation to Elisabeth, Chris, and Maggie for coordinating the Jacques May Award.  Appreciation to Brian, Kelsey, and Mike for coordinating the Peter Gould Best Student Paper Award

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Profiles in Health Geography: Margaret Carrel

Posted on April 17, 2013 by hmgsg2021

Originally Posted:  May 2011

Updated:  TBA

Margaret Carrel, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. Maggie’s research focuses on human-environmental interactions as they relate to infectious disease outcomes. Her expertise is in disease ecology, modeling molecular evolution of human pathogens and the use of GIS and spatial statistics to understand patterns of disease. She is serving a two-year term as HMGSG at-large board member.

Maggie Carrel earned her BA in International Relations and Japanese from American University in Washington, DC, and both her MA and PhD in Geography from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her master’s work considered the impact of flood protection on cholera incidence in Matlab, Bangladesh, while her dissertation examined the population and environmental drivers of H5N1 avian influenza molecular evolution in Vietnam.

Maggie conducts medical geography/spatial epidemiology research using geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial modeling techniques. The focus of her current and future research is to explore how complex interactions between people and environments result both in disease outcomes and the progressive evolution of human pathogens. This latter research emphasis is situated in the emergent field of landscape genetics, which combines the spatial analytic techniques of landscape ecology and geography with the computational methods of population genetics. Maggie is applying these landscape genetics methods to the study of H5N1 influenza in Vietnam, H1N1 in China and HIV drug resistance in North Carolina. She also continues to work on diarrheal disease research in rural Bangladesh, examining how the installation of flood control measures and deep drinking water tubewells interact to produce or prevent diarrheal events. Maggie’s work has been published in Environmental Health, Health and Place, PLoS One and the Bulletin of the WHO. Her teaching interests include Medical Geography, Disease Ecology, Population Geography and GIS applications for health.

 

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Election of New Board Members

Posted on April 16, 2013 by hmgsg2021
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Profiles in Health Geography: Aniruddha “Rudy” Banerjee

Posted on April 16, 2013 by hmgsg2021

Rudy Banerjee

Dr. Aniruddha “Rudy” Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), and Research Fellow, Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, CA. His interests are in spatial and computational statistics, spatial econometrics, decision support systems, and applied operations research (environmental and population health).
Rudy Banerjee earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Bengal Engineering College-University of Calcutta India. Migrating to the United States, he earned an MS degree in Urban and Regional Planning and his doctorate in Geography (environmental epidemiology and GISc) from the University of Iowa. He also has a Graduate Certificate in Transportation Studies from that institution.

Rudy has applied combinatorial optimization methods using both integer programming and graph theoretic approaches, Bayesian simulation of hierarchical networks and stochastic optimizations to analyze health information and develop space-time models of population health. Recently, he was invited to present his National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) research at the School of Medicine, Harvard University. Rudy was the joint recipient of the 2005 Jacques May Thesis Prize. He has been invited to the National Institute of Health (NIH), Oakridge National Laboratories, Institute for the Future (a Rand Corporation spinoff located at Palo Alto, California; where he is a consultant), University of California at Berkeley and Santa Barbara, University of Washington-Seattle, Harvard University, IUPUI ‘Cutting-Edge Lecture Series’ etc. to share his work on GISc and health. In addition to his PhD in Geography (University of Iowa), he has an MS in Transportation Planning and Public Policy from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Architecture and Engineering from the University of Calcutta-India. His recent publications (last 16 months) appear in Social Science & Medicine, Vision Research, International Journal of Medical Science, Substance Use and Misuse, and Clinical and Experimental Research, as well as various book chapters.

See also his departmental staff page.

  • Originally Posted February 2009
  • Updated:  April 2013
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Profiles in Health Geography: Brian Bossak

Posted on April 14, 2013 by hmgsg2021

Brian Bossack

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences,
Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA
email
Webpage

Brian’s research interests include:

  • climate change and human health,
  • coastal hazards and public health preparedness,
  • disease mapping,
  • spatial epidemiology,
  • water quality, and
  • gene-environment interactions.

Brian is currently Chair of HMGSG.

Brian Bossak earned both a BS and an MA in Geography from the University of Georgia, where he concentrated on geographic techniques (GIS, remote sensing, and photogrammetry). He then earned a PhD in Geography from Florida State University, where he focused on climatology and natural hazards. His dissertation examined US hurricanes and climate teleconnections, including a GIS analysis. He completed a Mendenhall Post-doctoral Research Fellowships with the US Geological Survey, and worked as a Geospatial Technology Lead in the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He also earned a Master of Public Health in Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Recent research includes a study in which GIS and remote sensing are applied to model inundation from climate change-related sea level rise along the southeastern US coastline. Another project involved collecting private well-water samples and conducting laboratory-based environmental analyses of water quality. A particular area of recent research productivity has been in spatial epidemiology. Since 2009, Brian has authored or co-authored work that has been published in Journal of Urban Health, American Journal of Public Health, PLoS One, Health & Place, Geography Compass, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Medical Hypotheses, and the International Journal of Drug Policy. Brian’s teaching interests extend to public health preparedness, medical geography, global climate change and health, spatial statistics, natural hazards, and remote sensing.

Originally Posted:  March, 2012.

Updated:  April 2013

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