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CRCSI GSN Round Table: International health research collaboration
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Apr 25, 2013 | BioMedware News
Funding into international joint innovation and research projects for 10 years was the focus of a Global Spatial Network Round Table Meeting in Sweden. Future Position X (FPX) will submit the funding proposal to the Swedish government in May. The Round Table meeting...
Update from SXSW 2013: On citizen sensors and emerging technologies
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Mar 12, 2013 | BioMedware News
What is the future of geohealth? One of the gaps in our knowledge is the lack of near real-time data on the ambient environment people experience as they go about their daily lives. This is changing rapidly with the advent of location enabled devices and wearable...
SXSW 2013: Mobile Health and the new era of Citizen Science
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Mar 11, 2013 | Article
Yesterday, I traveled to the meetings at SXSW in Austin, Texas. I’m attending the interactive session, and you may be able to find me at these events. Yes, I’ve doubled and triple scheduled some of the time slots, but there is so much going on here in the mobile...
Just Published: I-HEAT Feasibility Assessment Report
by Susan Hinton | Jan 15, 2013 | GIS Technology
Feasibility Assessment Report: Internet-based Heat Evaluation and Assessment Tool (I-HEAT) Authors: Susan Maxwell (PI), Robert Rommel, Geoffrey Jacquez - BioMedware, Inc.;Marie O’Neill, Kathryn Conlon, Natalie Sampson - University of Michigan School of Public Health...
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez appointed to the Cooperative Research Centres Spatial Information (CRCSI) Health Program Scientific Panel.
by Susan Hinton | Jan 10, 2013 | BioMedware News
Health Program Board has appointed Dr. Jacquez to a 2-year term as Co-Science Director of the CRCSI Health Program.
Advancing the use of GIS and spacial analysis to improve public health: First Annual Western New York GIS Day
by Susan Hinton | Nov 15, 2012 | BioMedware News
Western New York GIS day advances the use of GIS and spatial analysis to improve public health, health services, health planning and health research.
Researchers suggest geographic boundary analysis to detect shift in species distributions in response to climate change
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Oct 25, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
Quantifying the spatial relationship between bird species’ distributions and landscape feature boundaries in southern Ontario, Canada
Drugs recalled by New England Compounding Center: The tip of the iceberg?
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Oct 17, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
As hypotheses are tested and rejected, the remaining hypotheses are those that plausibly might explain the observed pattern. But how often do we include medications contaminated with foreign agents — fungus, bacteria, or otherwise — in our set of explanatory hypotheses? Until now, rarely, if ever. What we are learning from the New England Compounding Center is that contaminated medications largely explain the observed outbreak of fungal meningitis.
Genetic GIS: A call and a research agenda.
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Oct 5, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
Genetic GIS provides a comprehensive model of human health and its determinants including genetic, environmental and behavioral dimensions.
Dr. Goovaerts’ prostate cancer research work recognized by the editors of UroToday
by Susan Hinton | Aug 31, 2012 | BioMedware News
Dr. Goovaerts' journal article abstract, The impact of place and time on the proportion of late-stage diagnosis: The case of prostate cancer in Florida, 1981-2007, has been chosen for publication on the website UroToday.com.