Geo Health Informatics Research
Theme overview:
150 years ago, combining cholera death and water pump locations, Dr John Snow demonstrated that spatial studies could be of great value in understanding and predicting infectious disease outbreaks. Today’s technologies and advances in GIS, computing, modelling, statistics, sensors and geo-standards enable the application of powerful spatial analytical tools for the support of a broad range of health and epidemiological research challenges. At CGS we are currently focussing research on:
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Health informatics and Open Source Geospatial software
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Geospatial Health
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Geohazards and Health
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Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI)
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Public Health/Epidemiology and the Environment
CGS publications on this theme:
Pawlowicz, SLeibovici, DG Anand, S Ye, C. Jiang, W. and Jackson, M (2011) “Participatory Health Surveys”. Edinburgh Open Source, Geo & Health Symposium/Workshop, GECO (Geospatial Engagement & Community Outreach), Edinburgh, August 2011
Samarasundera, E. Hansell, A. Leibovici, D.G. Anand, S.(2011) “Primary care perspectives on open source GIS in the UK”. Edinburgh Open Source, Geo & Health Symposium/Workshop, GECO (Geospatial Engagement & Community Outreach), Edinburgh, August 2011
Leibovici, D.G. Bastin, L. Anand, S. Hobona, G. and Jackson, M (2011) "Spatially Clustered Associations in Health related geospatial data". Transactions in GIS, 15(3): 347-364
Samarasundera, E. Hansell, A Anand, S Leibovici, DG Oppenheimer, C and Horwell, C (2011) “Geological Risk Mitigation and Geographic Information: Some Perspectives from Public”. Health & Place, submitted July 2011
Leibovici, DG Swan, J Anand, S and Jackson, M (2011) “Coupling Outbreak Detection of Spatially Clustered Associations and Data Reduction“.STDM-11 (Spatio-Temporal Data Mining), London 18-19 July 2011
Pawlowicz, S Leibovici, DG Anand, S Ye, C. Jiang, W. and Jackson, M (2010) "Participatory HealthGIS". Open Source Junction Workshop, JISC-OSS watch, Universtiy of Oxford, 5-6 July 2011
Leibovici DG, . Bastin L,. and Jackson M. (2011) " Higher-Order Co-occurrences for Exploratory Point Pattern Analysis and Decision Tree Clustering on Spatial Data." Computers & Geosciences: 37(3): 382-389
Adams, N. Ye, C. Jiang, W. Pawlowicz, S. Anand. S, Leibovici, D.G. and Jackson, M. (2011) “Participatory Health Surveys Using Ubiquitous Computing: gastrointestinal illnesses application case stud”y. GISRUK, Southampton April 2011
Leibovici, D.G. Anand, S. and Jackson, M. (2010) "Open Source and Open Standards in Health Mapping. " BCS: Open Source Health Informatics conference, 27th October 2010 London, UK
Leibovici, D.G. Anand, S. Swan, J. Goulding, J. Hobona, G. Bastin, L. Pawlowicz, S. Jackson, M. and James, R. (2010) "Workflow issues for Health mapping "mashups" of OGC". University of Nottingham, CGS Technical report, 2010DL1, 6 pp
Leibovici, D.G. Bastin, L. Anand, S. Swan, J. Hobona, G. and Jackson, M (2010) "Spatially Clustered Associations in Health GIS "mashups". 18th Annual Conference GISRUK, April 2010. University College London, London, UK (best Spatial Analysis paper) (ppt)
Leibovici, D.G. Swan, J. Anand, S , Goulding, J. Hobona, G Jackson, M.and James, R. (2009) "Geospatial mashups for health and epidemic mapping using OGC standards". IRDN Workshop "The use of Mapping sofware and systems in Health and academic research", Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, November the 4th, 2009
Leibovici, D.G. Bastin, L. and Jackson, M. (2008) " Discovering Spatially Multiway Collocations." GISRUK Conference 2008, Manchester, UK, 2-4 April, 2008
Workshops organised:
3rd February 2010 1 day workshop on Health GIS http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~healthgis/os_home.html (funded through Bridging the Gap award)
August 2011 Open Source Geospatial Health workshop in collaboration with Open Source Specialist Group of British Computer Society http://ossg.bcs.org/ and GECO
Collaborations with:
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Health Science, University of Nottingham
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Centre for Healthcare Associated Infections, University of Nottingham,
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School of Public Health, Imperial College, University of London
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CISCAI ASEAN Foundation
CGS members who focus on this theme include:
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Didier Leibovici
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Suchith Anand
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Natalie Adams
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Jiang Wenchao
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Chaoye Ye
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Sergiusz Pawlowicz
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Jeremy Morley
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Mike Jackson