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Agenda | Participants & Presentations
Spatial
Analysis of Health Risk Perception - Participants & Presentations
Participants
Luc ANSELIN - 
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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 -
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute
of Technology; environmental risk and risk communication;
mental models of hazardous processes; risk perception
Art GETIS -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Professor of Anthropology; science and agricultural technology,
risks to food safety, and social movements
Helen COUCLELIS -
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Professor of Geography; urban and regional modeling and
planning, spatial cognition, geographic information science,
geography of the information society
Bill FREUDENBURG -
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Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies; risk communication;
experts' and lay persons' perceptions of environmental health
risk
Mike GOODCHILD -
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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 -
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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 -
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Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Anthropology,
and Sociology; social and cultural construction of reproductive
health risk
Susan STONICH -
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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 -
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Assistant Professor of Geography, urban and regional modeling/planning,
human migration, local economic development, spatial statistics
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