1st Edition
Geographic Information, Geospatial Technologies and Spatial Data Science for Health
Foreword
- Geographic information and geospatial technologies: applicability for health and disease
- Epidemiology of disease
- Statistics, analysis and visualizations
- Disaster Epidemiology. Health Emergencies and Hazard Considerations: surveillance to communication
- Data in a nutshell: Geospatial data, structuring data, managing data and ethics
- Health and disease in dynamically changing environments: mapping and modelling vector borne diseases
- Clustering of health risks: Global to Local
- Accessibility Methods: Spatial accessibility to health services and essential health care
- Geographic Information for Planetary Health action
Biography
Dr. Justine Blanford is a professor of GeoHealth at ITC, University of Twente. She addresses a variety of local and global health challenges across different spatial and temporal scales. Her work is centred around three main facets that include (i) risk: understanding where and when health risks are, the mechanisms driving risk (why) and who may be affected; (ii) prevention: what response and actions are needed and where; and (iii) communication: what to communicate. She earned a PhD in Biology from Imperial College, UK; an MPhil from the University of Leicester, UK; and a BaH from Queen’s University, Canada. She learned her GIS skills at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS), Canada.
