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Welcome to the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium! 
Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities
June 1-3, 2016 - Washington, DC

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in partnership with the American Public Health Association (APHA), is pleased to announce the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium. The theme for this year’s Symposium is “Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities”. Attend to discuss and share information about the important topics impacting the health of our communities worldwide and how GIS is being used as to facilitate decisions and action.

May 27 is the deadline to register at the discounted rate. Creating an attendee profile within Sched DOES NOT REGISTER you for the conference or specific workshops. You must register for the conference here. 

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Thursday, June 2 • 3:00pm - 4:30pm
GIS and Health Go Global

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This session will feature several applications of GIS to current environmental and public health issues around the globe. Discover how spatial video is supporting field epidemiology, how accurate health indicator mapping can improve decisions in the health sector, by what modeling methods air quality impacts can be forecasted for rapidly industrializing areas, and in what ways vulnerable communities may be especially vulnerable to climate change.

Attendance at this session will offer 1.5 AICP credits, pending approval.

  • Mapping the Water-Health Nexus in Challenging Urban Environments: A Case Study of Spatial Video in Haiti
    Andrew Curtis, PhD, Professor, Kent State University, Kent, OH United States
    Jason Blackburn, PhD, Assistant, Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL United States
  • Using  GIS for Defining Hospital Service Area at Jeddah City
    Abdulkader Murad, FCinstCES, Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah Saudi Arabia
  • Establishing a Relationship between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Concentration and Traffic Density along the Roadways of a Small Island State: A Spatial Analysis Technique
    Faisal Mohammed and Jacob Opadeyi, PhD, MBA, FRICS,Professor of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago
Moderators
avatar for Bernadette de Leon, GISP

Bernadette de Leon, GISP

Park Systems Planning Generalist, Indiana University, Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands
Retired as IT director of the Indiana University School of Public Health in Bloomington, Bernadette now applies her spatial analysis and cartographic skills to issues related to accessibility and inclusion in parks and on public lands. The Eppley Institute, which is now part of the... Read More →

Speakers
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Jacob Opadeyi, PhD, MBA, FRICS

Professor of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, The University of West Indies
Dr. Opadeyi has a PhD in Land Management and a Masters of Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada; an MSc and a BSc in Surveying from the University of Lagos in Nigeria; an Executive MBA from the UWI. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA... Read More →
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Faisal Mohammed

Ph.D Student/Research Technician, The University of the West Indies
Research Technician for Mass Spectrometry Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.Graduate Student in the Department of Chemistry, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine pursuing Ph.D in Environmental/Analytical Chemistry.Modelling... Read More →
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Abdulkader Murad

Professor, King Abdulaziz University
Abdulkader A. Murad is a Fallow at the Charted Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, FCInstCES, and a member of URISA. Currently, he is a Professor of GIS at King AbdulAziz University, Previous to this, he was is the GIS Advisor for the Vice President for projects in king AbdulAziz... Read More →
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Andrew Curtis, PhD

Co-Director of GIS/Health & Hazards Lab, Kent State University
Andrew Curtis is the current Co-Director of the GIS | Health & Hazards Lab at Kent State University and is a former Director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and GIS for Public Health. His work employs geospatial technologies and geographic... Read More →

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Thursday June 2, 2016 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Farragut Square, Lower Level
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Attendees (8)