Health and Medical Geography

The AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) is seeking nominations for the following positions for the 2023-2024 Board:

– 1 Vice-Chair

– 2 At-Large Board Members

– 2 Graduate Student Members

The Vice-Chair serves a one-year term and transitions to Chair in the second year. The At-Large and Graduate Student board members serve a two-year term. 

All HMGSG members are eligible to serve or to nominate another HMGSG member. Before nominating someone, please contact them to assure they are willing and available to serve if elected. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged. 

If you are interested in serving in any of these positions or nominating another person, please email Paul Delamater (pld@email.unc.edu). Nominees will be required to provide:

• Which position you are interested in 
• Document containing your full name, title and degree, institutional affiliation, and a one-paragraph bio (including your academic/professional interests)

The deadline for nominations is March 10th, 2023.

Voting will take place in the week leading up to the HMGSG Business Meeting on March 25th, 2023 at the AAG annual meeting (winners will be announced at the Business Meeting).

Thank you for your support of the HMGSG Specialty Group!

Hello HMGSG!

We’re collecting HMGSG members’ newsworthy accomplishments for inclusion in our 2023 HMGSG Newsletter!  Generally, people submit awards, grants, papers, or other fun or interesting achievements from the past year (March 2022 to February 2023).  This is a great way for you to increase visibility of your work and accolades… and to simply let your colleagues know what you’ve been up to.

So, please dust off your CV, go to this user friendly, easy to complete form, and let us help you get the word out.  We will accept submissions until March 3rd, 2023.

If you have questions, feel free to email Paul at pld@email.unc.edu

See attached flyer!

Qualifications/Responsibilities: Applicants must have their doctoral degree in epidemiology, sociology, geography, economics, or a related field by the start of the position. Expertise in areas of social, structural, and/or geographical determinants of health is strongly preferred, as is experience with longitudinal and spatial analysis. Duties of the postdoctoral associate include preparation of area-level data, data analysis, and manuscript writing. The position will entail working closely with an interdisciplinary team of investigators from the fields of lifespan development, population health, sociology, geography, and biostatistics. The associate will engage in self-directed research and team science, as they take the lead on one to two manuscripts per year and co-author several additional ones. Advanced research training and access to University resources will be provided to help the associate prepare for a research career.

Application Procedure: Submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, list of three references, and two relevant publications or preprints at utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/144226. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2023 and will continue until filled. The start date is flexible but ideally will begin no later than July 1st, 2023. This position is anticipated to be for at least two years, with renewal after the first 12 months contingent on performance. For inquiries, please contact the primary supervisor Dr. David Curtis at david.curtis@fcs.utah.edu.

A second postdoctoral associate position is available at Hong Kong University. This position is linked to this research project and has similar qualifications and expectations, but the employer and employment site will be Hong Kong University. Direct inquiries to the site faculty mentor, Ming Wen, at mingwen@hku.hk.

We invite submissions to a special logo Design Competition. Prizes will be awarded for the 1st ($250) 2nd ($100) and 3rd ($50) place entries.

Submission Details

• Submissions must be submitted electronically, but be appropriate for use in both web- and print-based materials

• Acceptable file formats include (but are not limited to ) tiff, jpg, png, gif
• See attached flyer for examples of other AAG Specialty Group logos
• Submissions should be emailed directly to Paul Delamater (pld@email.unc.edu) with the subject line: HMGSG Logo Competition Submission
• Submissions are limited to 3 per person
• The submission deadline is December 31, 2022

Eligibility

• Any member of the American Association of Geographers is eligible to sumit

Review

• the winners will be chosen via a popular vote open to all HMGSG members
• The new logo and prize winners will be announced at the HMGSG Business Meeting at the 2023 Annual Conference in Denver, CO

Questions or Concerns?

• Feel Free to reach out to Paul Delamater (pld@email.unc.edu) if you have any questions about the competition!

On behalf of HMGSG, I am excited to announce our first set of talks part of our Speaker Series. Please Join us on Wednesday , October 26th at 1 PM EST . We will hear from Dr Debs Ghosh (University of Connecticut) and Dr. Jared Aldstadt (SUNY at Buffalo). You can register at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/6v445bpm

Dear HMGSG members, The board would like to provide mentoring opportunities to students at the AAG virtual conference.  Faculty, industry employees, or senior PhD students will help students in topics for graduate school, jobs, and research related to health and medical geography.  

The main mentoring opportunity will be during the HMGSG social on 2/26/22 from 1-2pm EST where we will provide breakout rooms and assign students based on interest/topics.

If you are interested, please fill out the attached Google form by 2/25/22 by 11:59 EST.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgkPbgTEXZOwgA_G6kIofD0dmJIJ1p-zq-dzOj0BaFZB1pZw/viewform?usp=sf_link

If you have any questions, please contact Michael Desjardins (mail to: mdesjar3@jhu.edu) and Dayani Davilla (mail to: DayaniDavilla@my.unt.edu)

Hi HMGSG Community,

I am excited to share the 2022 HMGSG newsletter (please see attached link). 

Many thanks to our members for contributing material and making this a fascinating read! You will find many intriguing sections, including the HMGSG-sponsored sessions at AAG, awards & honors, recent publications, and more. 

Special thanks for Shamayeta Bhattacharya (student board member; UConn) for putting the newsletter together!

Enjoy,

Michael 
HMGSG Chair

On behalf of HMGSG, I am excited to announce our second set of talks part of our Speaker Series. Please join us on Tuesday, November 9th at 2pm EST.  We will hear from Dr. Michael Widener (University of Toronto) and Xiang “Peter” Chen (University of Connecticut).  You can register in the following link: unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WqNpb5IrRGmlitt2pHT4gw

This 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 Gaston County.

We will introduce and discuss the principles, methodologies, and applications of medical and health geography. This seminar will take place on Tuesday, October 5th at 12pm EST. Please register in the following link: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J-wQhyj2QqugjEDHNKFBzA

Peter Gould Student Paper Competition
Yanzhe Yin, University of Georgia
DTEx: A dynamic urban thermal exposure index based on human mobility patterns

Jacques May Thesis Prize (Master’s)
Siewying Shee: National University of Singapore
Moving bodies, feeling health: Examining the embodied politics of health-promoting infrastructure in Singapore