Geospatial Health Symposium #18: Geographies of Environment and Health: Big data for environment and health III
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/25/2022
Start Time: 5:20 PM
End Time: 6:40 PM
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Sponsor Group(s):
Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group
, Africa Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Zhaoxi Zhang
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Chairs(s):
Zhaoxi Zhang, Aarhus University
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Description:
The core of environment and health research is the belief that human-environment interactions have long and short term impacts on the health of humans and the environment (Fleming et al. 2017). There is a growth in the research and interest in environment and human-health partly due to growing concerns on climate change and environmental degradation. The relationship between environment and health is often complex beyond the simple models we employ as researchers to unravel the dynamism in this interaction. Big data and recent methodological and computational advances offer major promise to disentangling the complex interaction between environment and health through. Big data is not just about using large data sets, but critically, the COMBINATION of (large) datasets. The added value from integrating disparate datasets to reveal a sum greater than the individual parts. This session is intended to provide a forum for perspectives of the complex transactions between people, environment and health. To this end, emergent studies, methods and technologies in the environment and human health research will be the focus of the session.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Colleen Reid, University of Colorado, Boulder; Using machine learning to derive daily PM2.5 concentration estimates at fine spatial scales for the western US 2008-2018 |
Patrick Kalonde, St Cloud State University; Using Drone Technology and Deep Learning to Map Plastic Pollution and Waste Disposal Locations in a Terrestrial Environment |
An-Min Wu, University of Southern California; Mapping ghost smelters: Understanding health risks and environmental injustice behind the historical lead smelters in the United States |
Prince Michael Amegbor, New York University; Spatial modelling of the effect of air pollution and socioeconomic factors on childhood respiratory and nutritional conditions in sub-Saharan Africa: The SPDE approach |
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Geospatial Health Symposium #18: Geographies of Environment and Health: Big data for environment and health III
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Prince Michael Amegbor - 11pma4@queensu.ca