Geographic Information, Geospatial Technologies and Spatial Data Science for Health

In this book, epidemiology and public health are integrated with spatial data science to examine health issues in dynamically changing environments. This is too broad a field to be covered in one book and so it has been necessary to be selective with the topics, methods and examples.

Auteur

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.