A5025745966- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Automated Road and Building Extraction
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Cambodian History and Society
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Immune responses and vaccinations
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Case Western Reserve University
2019-2024
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2023
University School
2022-2023
Cornell University
2023
Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa
2023
Gheskio Centers
2023
University of Florida
2023
Stellenbosch University
2023
University of Washington
2023
University Health System
2020
Cali, Colombia has experienced chikungunya and Zika outbreaks hypoendemic dengue. Studies have explained Cali's dengue patterns but lack the sub-neighborhood-scale detail investigated here.Spatial-video geonarratives (SVG) with Ministry of Health officials Community Workers were collected in hotspots, providing perspective on perceptions why dengue, hotspots exist, impediments to control, social outcomes. Using spatial video Google Street View, sub-neighborhood features possibly contributing...
This paper seeks to calibrate an existing analytical framework develop building repair fragility models using a restoration dataset collected through longitudinal field study in the city of Joplin, Missouri, after catastrophic 2011 Enhanced Fujita 5 tornado. First, recovery data set from Joplin is documented and main findings pertaining observed trajectory buildings are highlighted. In next step, various empirical functionality fragilities conditioned on initial level (and associated damage)...
This article establishes a new methodological framework for parallelizing spatial data processing called parallel cartographic modeling, which extends the widely adopted modeling framework. Parallel adds novel component Subdomain, serves as elemental unit of computation. Four operators are also added to express processing, namely scheduler, decomposition, executor, and iteration. A language (PCML) is developed based on framework, designed usability, programmability, scalability. PCML...
There has been a move towards using mixed method approaches in geospatial research to gain context understanding health related social patterns and processes. The central premise is that official data often too reductionist misses' nuances can help explain causality. One example the geonarrative, spatially relevant commentary or interview be mapped by content and/or location. While there have several examples of geonarratives being used researchers, no commonly available software easily...
The importance of including a contextual underpinning to the spatial analysis social data is gaining traction in science community. challenge, though, how capture these rigorous manner that translational. One method has shown promise achieving this aim video geonarrative (SVG), and paper we pose questions advance geonarratives through case study criminal ex-offenders. Eleven ex-offenders provided sketch maps SVGs identifying high-crime areas their Wordmapper software was used map classify...
Abstract Background The utility of being able to spatially analyze health care data in near-real time is a growing need. However, this potential often limited by the level in-house geospatial expertise. One solution form collaborative partnerships between and geoscience sectors. A challenge achieving how share outside host institution’s protection protocols without violating patient confidentiality, while still maintaining locational geographic integrity. Geomasking techniques have been...
Opioid drug overdoses in the United States have continued to rise since 2014. Overdoses are one of several interlinked health challenges faced by marginalized populations. Here we side with argument that these populations can also be a valuable resource address challenges, and use methods elevate this critical belief into real-world application. In article, spatially inspired interviews from both provider participants Los Angeles Skid Row map out microspaces activity. The resulting reveals...
Abstract The 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti was thought to have ended 2019, and the Prime Minister of declared country cholera-free February 2022. On September 25, 2022, cases were again identified Port-au-Prince. We compared genomic data from 42 clinical Vibrio cholerae strains 2022 with 327 other 1,824 collected worldwide. isolates homogeneous closely related environmental circulating during 2012–2019. Bayesian hypothesis testing indicated that shared their most recent common ancestor an...
The health burden in developing world informal settlements often coincides with a lack of spatial data that could be used to guide intervention strategies. Spatial video (SV) has proven useful tool collect environmental and social at granular scale, though the effort required turn these spatially encoded frames into maps limits sustainability scalability. In this paper we explore use convolution neural networks (CNN) solve problem by automatically identifying disease related risks series SV...
Informal settlements pose a continuing health concern. While spatial methodologies have proven to be valuable tools support interventions, several factors limit their widespread use in these challenging environments. One such technology, video, has been used for fine-scale contextualized mapping. In this paper, we address one of the limitations technique: global positioning system (GPS) coordinate error. More specifically, show how video streams can corrected and synced back original...
Between 1975 and 1979, upwards of two million men, women, children perished from starvation, disease, exhaustion, inadequate medical care, torture, murder, execution during the Cambodian genocide. Within this context, forced evacuation Phnom Penh has figured prominently in literature, especially with regard to violence encountered on route. To date, however, there been no empirical reconstruction evacuation. Here we address deficiency, while simultaneously presenting a novel geospatial...
Abstract Identifying emergent patterns of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the local level presents a geographic challenge. The need is not only to integrate multiple data streams from different sources, scales, and cadences, but also identify meaningful spatial in these data, especially vulnerable settings where even small numbers low rates are important pinpoint for early intervention. This paper identifies gap current analytical approaches near-real time assessment that can be used...
Diffusion of cholera and other diarrheal diseases in an informal settlement is a product multiple behavioral, environmental spatial risk factors. One the most important components interconnections among water points, drainage ditches, toilets intervening environment. This also longitudinal variable as points fluctuate relation to bacterial contamination. In this paper we consider part micro space complexity for three settlements Port au Prince, Haiti. We expand on more typical...
Crime often clusters in space and time. Near-repeat patterns improve understanding of crime communicability their space–time interactions. analysis requires extensive computing resources for the assessment statistical significance A computationally intensive Monte Carlo simulation-based approach is used to evaluate space-time underlying near-repeat events. Currently available software identifying not scalable large datasets. In this paper, we show how parallel spatial programming can help...
Maps have become the de facto primary mode of visualizing COVID-19 pandemic, from identifying local disease and vaccination patterns to understanding global trends. In addition their widespread utilization for public communication, there been a variety advances in spatial methods created localized operational needs. While broader dissemination this more granular work is not commonplace due protections under Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA), its role has foundational...
Inclusion of Location Based Services (LBS) on social media including geo-tagging, and check-ins has been the rise. Users share their location information, motivated by self-expression socialization, as well to improve understanding about places. However, sharing information develops an increased potential for spatial privacy violations. Along with advances in LBS, developments field Geographic Information Systems (GIS) easy use web-maps reverse geocoding services, provide researchers others...
The 2011 Joplin, Missouri, tornado was one of the deadliest and costliest tornadoes in US history, damaging approximately 8,000 structures causing more than $2 billion economic damages. As with most extreme events, reports following documented widespread damage, including complete destruction local hospitals along various schools. However, recovery processes have not been evaluated at same level spatial detail. Following Joplin tornado, researchers periodically revisited neighborhoods...
Objective: Disasters have devastated communities, impacted the economy, and resulted in a significant increase injuries. As use of mobile technology increasingly becomes common aspect everyday life, it is important to understand how can be used as resource. The authors examined American Red Cross apps aimed characterize user trends better help bolster individual community preparedness, resilience, response efforts.Design/main outcome measures: Tornado data were obtained from National Oceanic...
The number of Endometrial Carcinoma (EC) diagnoses is projected to increase substantially in coming decades. Although most ECs have a favorable prognosis, the aggressive, non-endometrioid subtypes are disproportionately concentrated Black women and spread rapidly, making treatment difficult resulting poor outcomes. Therefore, this study offers an exploratory spatial epidemiological investigation EC patients within U.S.-based health system’s institutional cancer registry (n = 1748) search for...
In this paper, we provide an overview of how spatial video data collection enriched with contextual mapping can be used as a universal tool to investigate sub-neighborhood scale health risks, including cholera, in challenging environments. To illustrate the method's flexibility, consider life cycle Mujoga relief camp set up after Nyiragongo volcanic eruption Democratic Republic Congo on 22 May 2021. More specifically these methods have captured deteriorating conditions which is also...