Epidemiology and Public Health

Many infectious diseases and chronic illnesses have underlying spatiotemporal relationships with the environment that are challenging to integrate into public health strategies. Additionally, changing climates, land cover conversion, and increases in global transportation are likely to shift disease distributions and spatiotemporal patterns. The environmental health- and epidemiological- communities desire spatially explicit models that characterize pathogens, vectors, and reservoirs to bridge information gaps. Analytical tools, data organization, and specialized products are needed to integrate environmental information and geographic principals with health studies in a scientifically sound manner. Advancing geospatial technologies provide new opportunities to increase our understanding of disease ecology and address public health concerns. AGS is at the forefront of generating specialized products from remote sensing technologies and developing custom web-based mapping tools for particular health applications. We devote much of our efforts to obtaining complex satellite measurements and transforming that data into useful, easy-to-use information for end-users.

Our environmental health themes include:
Assist environmental health- and epidemiological- investigators with geographic data
Risk assessment
Derived, specialized geospatial products for health applications
Near-real time, web mapping and automated processing
Data visualization, integration, organization, and management ("one stop shopping")
Easy-to-use spatial tools designed for health professionals
Geostatistical ("spatial, temporal, and issues of scale") and landscape analysis
Climate and weather analysis
Coupled natural-human systems assessment

Characterizing growing degree days, socioeconomic census data, and modeling clusters.

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