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Spatial Analysis of Health Risk Perception - Participants & Presentations

Participants

Luc ANSELIN - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Director, Spatial Analysis Laboratory, and Professor, Departments of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Economics, Geography, and Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
spatial data analysis, GIS and spatial econometrics, regional economics, environmental economics, epidemiology and criminology

Ann BOSTROM - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV   PDF Document Presentation
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology; environmental risk and risk communication; mental models of hazardous processes; risk perception

Art GETIS - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation Chair of Geographical Studies, San Diego State University; spatial analysis of disease transmission (especially dengue in Peru and Thailand), entomology and risk assessment, spatial pattern analysis, cluster determination, local statistics, spatial filtering, spatial weights matrix specification.

Jim HOLT - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Lead Public Health Analyst, Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; social determinants of health outcomes; spatial scale dependency; spatial analysis of health data at the small area level

Sara MCLAFFERTY - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Professor of Geography, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; geography of health and health care; GIS and modeling health inequalities in cities in the US; race/ethnicity and geographical access to health care

Lee MOBLEY - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Research Economist, Health Care Quality Program in the Division for Health Economics Research, RTI International; understanding spatial variation in healthcare access, quality, satisfaction with care, and outcomes; behavioral health, contextual factors, and behavioral disease models; spatial spillovers, collusion, firm behavior, and antitrust in healthcare markets; agglomeration economies, network efficiencies, and managed care penetration; physician location, health provider shortages, and monopsony in nursing markets

Mark NICHTER - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV   PDF Document Presentation
Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona, and President, Society for Medical Anthropology; international health, smoking behavior, tuberculosis, and everyday practices of harm reduction (S and SE Asia)

Jan RIGBY - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; geographies of health; socio-environmental equity; women's health; spatial analysis in public health (Europe)

Gerry RUSHTON - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV   PDF Document Presentation
Professor of Geography, University of Iowa; spatial decision support systems (SDSS) and spatial analysis of disease, development of human service systems in western and developing countries. Modeling areas include location-allocation, small area demographics, spatial choice behavior, disease cluster analysis, spatial aggregation and disaggregation (S. Asia)

Terre SATTERFIELD - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV   PDF Document Presentation
Assistant Professor, Institute for Resources and the Environment, University of British Columbia; health risk perception and stigma; community response to environmental health hazards; race and gender

Elisa SOBO
- PDF Document Statement & CV
Trauma Research Scientist, Center for Child Health Outcomes, Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego; perception of HIV/AIDS risk among African American women; pediatric trauma; stigma and health risk perception

Cynthia WARRICK - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Assistant Professor of Management & Policy Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas; social and environmental determinants of health disparities; GIS and spatial analysis of cancer disparities; neighborhood effects of cancer prevention behavior

 

UCSB Campus Participants

Francesca BRAY - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Professor of Anthropology; science and agricultural technology, risks to food safety, and social movements

Helen COUCLELIS - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Professor of Geography; urban and regional modeling and planning, spatial cognition, geographic information science, geography of the information society

Bill FREUDENBURG - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies; risk communication; experts' and lay persons' perceptions of environmental health risk

Mike GOODCHILD - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV   PDF Document Presentation
Professor of Geography, founding director, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, and PI, CSISS; spatial analysis technology and social science applications

Barbara HERR HARTHORN - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV   PDF Document Presentation
Associate Director, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research and Assistant Research Anthropologist; culture, ethnicity and gender in perception of health risk; occupational and environmental health; immigration and health

Laury OAKS - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV   PDF Document Presentation
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology; social and cultural construction of reproductive health risk

Susan STONICH - PDF Document CV   PDF Document Presentation
Professor and Chair, Environmental Studies, Professor of Anthropology, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, and Geography; political ecology, vulnerability, and sustainability; environmental risk; marine and agrarian resource systems

Stuart SWEENEY - PDF Document Statement   PDF Document CV
Assistant Professor of Geography, urban and regional modeling/planning, human migration, local economic development, spatial statistics

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