Health Geography Researcher's Network (HGRN) of the IGU Commission on Health and the Environment
The International Geographical Union Commission on Health and the Environment (IGU CHE) has created a sub-commission to further stimulate and support international networking and exchange on health geography, global health, public health and environment and health issues.
The Health Geography Researcher Network (HGRN) aims to encourage participation by researchers of all age groups with special focus on enlarging participation of young researchers to ensure the sustainability of the commission for the future.
The HGRN interact and collaborate closely with the steering committee of IGU CHE while at the same time also focusing on the specific issues and interests of emerging health geography researchers. We aim to utilize and communicate the knowledge of health geography, health and the environment as well as global health and public health. Thus the group develops a multinational and multidisciplinary perspective and creates a network that support contacts and shares research and work experiences in our fields of study.
The researcher network is supported and organized through a steering group (network representatives) including representatives from different geographical areas. The regional representatives will be in charge to actively reach out to their regional scientific community and share their experience and insights. In addition, working groups with representatives for specific areas of concern are created to enhance exchange of knowledge with a more topic driven focus.
The network representatives will regularly communicate electronically to ensure and enhance interaction between the regional members on joint research activities, interests, and initiatives.
The Health Geography Researcher Network (HGRN) aims to encourage participation by researchers of all age groups with special focus on enlarging participation of young researchers to ensure the sustainability of the commission for the future.
The HGRN interact and collaborate closely with the steering committee of IGU CHE while at the same time also focusing on the specific issues and interests of emerging health geography researchers. We aim to utilize and communicate the knowledge of health geography, health and the environment as well as global health and public health. Thus the group develops a multinational and multidisciplinary perspective and creates a network that support contacts and shares research and work experiences in our fields of study.
The researcher network is supported and organized through a steering group (network representatives) including representatives from different geographical areas. The regional representatives will be in charge to actively reach out to their regional scientific community and share their experience and insights. In addition, working groups with representatives for specific areas of concern are created to enhance exchange of knowledge with a more topic driven focus.
The network representatives will regularly communicate electronically to ensure and enhance interaction between the regional members on joint research activities, interests, and initiatives.
Health Geography Researcher's Network steering group
Eva Pilot (Co-Chair)
Position: Docent
Affiliation: Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Netherlands
Contact: eva.pilot@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Institute webpage: http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
Personal profile: Eva Pilot is a docent at the School of Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Netherlands. Her educational background is in health geography. Currently, her main teaching activities fall into Global Health and European Public Health.
Her research interests cover health geography, global health, health information, public health surveillance, environment and health and health system research.
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Position: Docent
Affiliation: Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Netherlands
Contact: eva.pilot@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Institute webpage: http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
Personal profile: Eva Pilot is a docent at the School of Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Netherlands. Her educational background is in health geography. Currently, her main teaching activities fall into Global Health and European Public Health.
Her research interests cover health geography, global health, health information, public health surveillance, environment and health and health system research.
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Claudia Costa (Co-Chair)
Position: Research Assistant, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Centre of Studies on Geography and Territory Planning, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Contact: claudiampcosta@gmail.com
Institute webpage: http://www.uc.pt/fluc/gigs /
Personal profile:
Geographer, at University of Coimbra. MSc in Science & Geographic Information Systems by NOVA Information Management School with the thesis “Optimum location for future Hospital of Sintra. Applying Location-Allocation Model in Health Care Planning. Currently, she is a PhD candidate on Geography in the University of Coimbra. Her PhD thesis is related with the association between geographical accessibility and avoidable mortality amenable to healthcare in Portugal in the last 20 years.
Junior researcher at the Health Geography Research Group of the Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), University of Coimbra, Portugal since 2006. She has been part of the team of several research projects. At national level, she participated in the projects Amadora Healthy Urban Planning (aim: to evaluate how urban planning impact population’ health), GeoHealthS (aim: to evaluate the Portuguese population health, in a multidimensional and disaggregated way) and SMAILE (aim: to evaluate how the characteristics of the territory influence population mental health). At international level, she participated in the project INEQ-CITIES (aim: to identify socio-economic inequalities in health and mortality in Europe and to examine urban health policies developed to tackle such inequalities in health), and currently she has been involved in EURO-HEALTHY (aim: to advance knowledge of policies that have the highest potential to enhance health and health equity across European regions with particular focus on metropolitan areas).
Her research interests are: social and geographical inequalities in health, geographical information systems applied to health, healthcare planning, urban planning and health, population health.
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Position: Research Assistant, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Centre of Studies on Geography and Territory Planning, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Contact: claudiampcosta@gmail.com
Institute webpage: http://www.uc.pt/fluc/gigs /
Personal profile:
Geographer, at University of Coimbra. MSc in Science & Geographic Information Systems by NOVA Information Management School with the thesis “Optimum location for future Hospital of Sintra. Applying Location-Allocation Model in Health Care Planning. Currently, she is a PhD candidate on Geography in the University of Coimbra. Her PhD thesis is related with the association between geographical accessibility and avoidable mortality amenable to healthcare in Portugal in the last 20 years.
Junior researcher at the Health Geography Research Group of the Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), University of Coimbra, Portugal since 2006. She has been part of the team of several research projects. At national level, she participated in the projects Amadora Healthy Urban Planning (aim: to evaluate how urban planning impact population’ health), GeoHealthS (aim: to evaluate the Portuguese population health, in a multidimensional and disaggregated way) and SMAILE (aim: to evaluate how the characteristics of the territory influence population mental health). At international level, she participated in the project INEQ-CITIES (aim: to identify socio-economic inequalities in health and mortality in Europe and to examine urban health policies developed to tackle such inequalities in health), and currently she has been involved in EURO-HEALTHY (aim: to advance knowledge of policies that have the highest potential to enhance health and health equity across European regions with particular focus on metropolitan areas).
Her research interests are: social and geographical inequalities in health, geographical information systems applied to health, healthcare planning, urban planning and health, population health.
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Oliver Gruebner
Position: Group leader Health Geography
Affiliation: University of Zurich Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute and Department of Geography
Contact: oliver.gruebner@uzh.ch
Personal profile: I am interested in the complex relationships between health and the environment at distinct scales. My research primarily focuses on spatial epidemiological approaches to mental health and child health in urban settings of both high and low-income countries. Using concepts from the fields of epidemiology and geography, I concentrate on socio-ecological environments at the regional, neighborhood, and individual person level and try to understand how these are contributing to population health.
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Position: Group leader Health Geography
Affiliation: University of Zurich Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute and Department of Geography
Contact: oliver.gruebner@uzh.ch
Personal profile: I am interested in the complex relationships between health and the environment at distinct scales. My research primarily focuses on spatial epidemiological approaches to mental health and child health in urban settings of both high and low-income countries. Using concepts from the fields of epidemiology and geography, I concentrate on socio-ecological environments at the regional, neighborhood, and individual person level and try to understand how these are contributing to population health.
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Christina Ergler
Position: Lecturer in Social Geography
Affiliation: Department of Geography, The University of Otago, New Zealand
Contact Information: chiristina.ergler@otago.ac.nz
Institute webpage: http://www.geography.otago.ac.nz/people/academic/christina_ergler
Personal profile:
Christina is a lecturer in Social Geography in the Department of Geography at The University of Otago in New Zealand. Her research interests lie at the intersection of geography, sociology and public health and centre on how physical, social and symbolic environments shape and are shaped by the way people play, live, age, fall ill and get better in particular places. Christina is also interested in and passionate about creative, value-based and culturally appropriate methodologies that acknowledge the expertise of anyone, and foster participation in, everyday activities; an approach she calls "beyond passive participation".
Christina graduated with a PhD in Geography from The University of Auckland in 2013. Her thesis titled ‘The power of place in play: a Bourdieusian analysis of seasonal outdoor play practices’ explored the geographies of health and wellbeing that relate to inequalities in experiencing and utilising urban environments from the perspectives of families. Current projects unpack the joyful and stressful times of becoming a first time parent from a migrant perspective, tertiary students wellbeing during examination periods, bluescapes and primary school age children’s wellbeing as well as pre-schoolers’ wellbeing in urban environments.
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Position: Lecturer in Social Geography
Affiliation: Department of Geography, The University of Otago, New Zealand
Contact Information: chiristina.ergler@otago.ac.nz
Institute webpage: http://www.geography.otago.ac.nz/people/academic/christina_ergler
Personal profile:
Christina is a lecturer in Social Geography in the Department of Geography at The University of Otago in New Zealand. Her research interests lie at the intersection of geography, sociology and public health and centre on how physical, social and symbolic environments shape and are shaped by the way people play, live, age, fall ill and get better in particular places. Christina is also interested in and passionate about creative, value-based and culturally appropriate methodologies that acknowledge the expertise of anyone, and foster participation in, everyday activities; an approach she calls "beyond passive participation".
Christina graduated with a PhD in Geography from The University of Auckland in 2013. Her thesis titled ‘The power of place in play: a Bourdieusian analysis of seasonal outdoor play practices’ explored the geographies of health and wellbeing that relate to inequalities in experiencing and utilising urban environments from the perspectives of families. Current projects unpack the joyful and stressful times of becoming a first time parent from a migrant perspective, tertiary students wellbeing during examination periods, bluescapes and primary school age children’s wellbeing as well as pre-schoolers’ wellbeing in urban environments.
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Raheem Usman
Position: Senior Lecturer (Medical Geography and Disaster Risk Studies)
Affiliation: University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Contact Information: adebimpeusman@gmail.com
Institute webpage: www.unilorin.edu.ng
Personal profile: Usman Adebimpe Raheem (Nigeria) teaches human geography at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria where he has put in more than 15 years of teaching and research. His research interests cover the broad area of medical geography with emphasis on Urban health, climate change and Disaster Risk analysis. He is currently the Regional Coordinator (Africa), with Felix B. Olorunfemi, for the Earth System Governance Fellows Network. www.earthsystemgovernance.org/people/.
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Position: Senior Lecturer (Medical Geography and Disaster Risk Studies)
Affiliation: University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Contact Information: adebimpeusman@gmail.com
Institute webpage: www.unilorin.edu.ng
Personal profile: Usman Adebimpe Raheem (Nigeria) teaches human geography at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria where he has put in more than 15 years of teaching and research. His research interests cover the broad area of medical geography with emphasis on Urban health, climate change and Disaster Risk analysis. He is currently the Regional Coordinator (Africa), with Felix B. Olorunfemi, for the Earth System Governance Fellows Network. www.earthsystemgovernance.org/people/.
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Yang Cheng
Position: Associate Professor
Affiliation: School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, China
Contact: chengyang@bnu.edu.cn
Webpage: http://geogother.bnu.edu.cn/teacherweb/chengyang/
Personal profile: I did my undergraduate degree in geography at Beijing Normal University in China (B. Sc., 2003) before going to the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research in the Chinese Academy of Sciences to do my M. Eng. (Environmental Sciences, 2006). I received my Ph.D. degree in Human Geography from Queen’s University in Canada (2010). I joined the School of Geography at Beijing Normal University in 2010 as a postdoctoral fellow after participating in the Young Scientists Summer Program 2010 at the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Austria. I was promoted to Associate Professor by Beijing Normal University in 2013. I am interested in combining the use of qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the geography of population aging and elder care in the economic, political, social and cultural context of a rapidly changing China,especially in mega cities. My recent research projects, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Beijing Normal University,focus on three topics: the spatial evolution and optimization of public service facilities for the elderly in Beijing; food security of the community living elderly in Beijing; and social support and well-being of the elderly living in communities and residential care facilities in Beijing.
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Position: Associate Professor
Affiliation: School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, China
Contact: chengyang@bnu.edu.cn
Webpage: http://geogother.bnu.edu.cn/teacherweb/chengyang/
Personal profile: I did my undergraduate degree in geography at Beijing Normal University in China (B. Sc., 2003) before going to the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research in the Chinese Academy of Sciences to do my M. Eng. (Environmental Sciences, 2006). I received my Ph.D. degree in Human Geography from Queen’s University in Canada (2010). I joined the School of Geography at Beijing Normal University in 2010 as a postdoctoral fellow after participating in the Young Scientists Summer Program 2010 at the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Austria. I was promoted to Associate Professor by Beijing Normal University in 2013. I am interested in combining the use of qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the geography of population aging and elder care in the economic, political, social and cultural context of a rapidly changing China,especially in mega cities. My recent research projects, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Beijing Normal University,focus on three topics: the spatial evolution and optimization of public service facilities for the elderly in Beijing; food security of the community living elderly in Beijing; and social support and well-being of the elderly living in communities and residential care facilities in Beijing.
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Sebastian Fleuret
Position: Research Director
Affiliation: CNRS ESO - University of angers, France
Contact: sebastien.fleuret@univ-angers.fr
Personal profile: Researcher since 2001. Research fields : local health governance and networks, tourism and health. Organizer of the International Medical Geography Symposium 2017 in angers, France
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Position: Research Director
Affiliation: CNRS ESO - University of angers, France
Contact: sebastien.fleuret@univ-angers.fr
Personal profile: Researcher since 2001. Research fields : local health governance and networks, tourism and health. Organizer of the International Medical Geography Symposium 2017 in angers, France
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Li Wang
Position: Assistant Prof.
Affiliation: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Contact: Li Wang
Personal profile: Her research focus for her PhD was on Airpollution and health.
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Position: Assistant Prof.
Affiliation: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Contact: Li Wang
Personal profile: Her research focus for her PhD was on Airpollution and health.
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Nayara Belle
Position: PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Brasilia, Brazil.
Contact: nayarabelle@gmail.com
Institute webpage: www.lagas.unb.br
Personal profile: Bachelor in International Relations at Faculdade Michelangelo, Brazil (2006) and Master in Geography at the University of Brasilia, Brazil (2016). I am interested in migration and refugee studies and policy studies, especially the relation between health and international mobility. My PhD research is focussing on migrants and refugees access to health care in Brazil and in comparrison in the Netherlands. My general research interest is on data quality and the use of administrative records and new data sources for qualitative analysis, georeferencing and cartography to support and assess policies.
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Position: PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Brasilia, Brazil.
Contact: nayarabelle@gmail.com
Institute webpage: www.lagas.unb.br
Personal profile: Bachelor in International Relations at Faculdade Michelangelo, Brazil (2006) and Master in Geography at the University of Brasilia, Brazil (2016). I am interested in migration and refugee studies and policy studies, especially the relation between health and international mobility. My PhD research is focussing on migrants and refugees access to health care in Brazil and in comparrison in the Netherlands. My general research interest is on data quality and the use of administrative records and new data sources for qualitative analysis, georeferencing and cartography to support and assess policies.
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Julie Valee
Position: Assistant Professor in Geography
Affiliation: CNRS, Géographie-cités laboratory (Paris, France)
Contact Information: julie.vallee@parisgeo.cnrs.fr
Institute webpage: http://www.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article298&lang=en
Personal profile: Julie is conducting research devoted to spatiotemporal mechanisms of health inequalities in urban areas. Her aim is to better understand how people experience their neighborhood and their city, how they access urban resources and how variability in place experiences and in resources accessibility may translate into inequalities in health.
Position: Assistant Professor in Geography
Affiliation: CNRS, Géographie-cités laboratory (Paris, France)
Contact Information: julie.vallee@parisgeo.cnrs.fr
Institute webpage: http://www.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article298&lang=en
Personal profile: Julie is conducting research devoted to spatiotemporal mechanisms of health inequalities in urban areas. Her aim is to better understand how people experience their neighborhood and their city, how they access urban resources and how variability in place experiences and in resources accessibility may translate into inequalities in health.
Carmen Anthonj
Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Affiliation: The Water Institute, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, USA
Contact: carmen.anthonj@unc.edu
Institute Webpage: https://waterinstitute.unc.edu/about-us/post-docs/anthonj-carmen/
Personal profile: Carmen Anthonj is a researcher and lecturer who focuses on the interlinkages between the water and human health, and health-promoting water management in the context of development. She applies mixed methods and multidisciplinary perspectives, and investigates risk perceptions and health-related behaviours. At the University of North Carolina, she collaborates with UNICEF, using data to strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene systems. Prior to joining The Water Institute at UNC, Carmen worked with the World Health Organization Nigeria and conducted research with adelphi, the German Center for Development Research, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, the GIZ and the Namibian Ministry of Health. Carmen holds a PhD from the GeoHealth Centre at the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health of the University of Bonn. Carmen has health risk- and WaSH-related field experience in Southeast Asia, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and in the South Pacific.
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Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Affiliation: The Water Institute, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, USA
Contact: carmen.anthonj@unc.edu
Institute Webpage: https://waterinstitute.unc.edu/about-us/post-docs/anthonj-carmen/
Personal profile: Carmen Anthonj is a researcher and lecturer who focuses on the interlinkages between the water and human health, and health-promoting water management in the context of development. She applies mixed methods and multidisciplinary perspectives, and investigates risk perceptions and health-related behaviours. At the University of North Carolina, she collaborates with UNICEF, using data to strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene systems. Prior to joining The Water Institute at UNC, Carmen worked with the World Health Organization Nigeria and conducted research with adelphi, the German Center for Development Research, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, the GIZ and the Namibian Ministry of Health. Carmen holds a PhD from the GeoHealth Centre at the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health of the University of Bonn. Carmen has health risk- and WaSH-related field experience in Southeast Asia, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and in the South Pacific.
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Mohammad Adam, ADMAN
Position: Lecturer
Affiliation: Faculty of Biomedical & Health Sciences, University Selangor
Contact Information: adam@unisel.edu.my ; m.adam.adman@gmail.com
Institute webpage/ www.unisel.edu.my
Personal profile: I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Biology from University Science of Malaysia (2002). Previously, worked in private sectors for 2 years in project management and sales related to laboratory equipment. In 2004, received an offer as a government servant at the Malaysian Department of Environment in headquarters. Task primarily as an assessment officer for importing/exporting of wastes regulated under the Basel and Stockholm . After obtaining a Master degree in Environmental Management from University Putra Malaysia in 2008, I joined academia as a lecturer in the Faculty of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Universiti Selangor. Currently, teaching in subjects related to environmental health to undergraduate students. At the same time, studying for a PhD in Community Health at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia/United Nations University – Int’l Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur. Took an active part in many local and international conferences, workshops and seminars. My research interests are focused on respiratory health, air pollutions and environmental regulations.
Position: Lecturer
Affiliation: Faculty of Biomedical & Health Sciences, University Selangor
Contact Information: adam@unisel.edu.my ; m.adam.adman@gmail.com
Institute webpage/ www.unisel.edu.my
Personal profile: I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Biology from University Science of Malaysia (2002). Previously, worked in private sectors for 2 years in project management and sales related to laboratory equipment. In 2004, received an offer as a government servant at the Malaysian Department of Environment in headquarters. Task primarily as an assessment officer for importing/exporting of wastes regulated under the Basel and Stockholm . After obtaining a Master degree in Environmental Management from University Putra Malaysia in 2008, I joined academia as a lecturer in the Faculty of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Universiti Selangor. Currently, teaching in subjects related to environmental health to undergraduate students. At the same time, studying for a PhD in Community Health at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia/United Nations University – Int’l Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur. Took an active part in many local and international conferences, workshops and seminars. My research interests are focused on respiratory health, air pollutions and environmental regulations.
Audrey Bochaton
Position: Assistant Professor / Lecturer
Affiliation: University Paris Ouest Nanterre la Defense / Laboratoire Mosaiques LAVUE UMR 7218 CNRS
Contact: abochaton@u-paris10.fr
Institute Webpage: http://www.u-paris10.fr/bochaton-audrey-390958.kjsp
Research Blog: http://audrey-bochaton.blogspot.fr/
Personal profile: I am a human geographer, and my research mainly focuses on transnational mobility, health and care. I'm also currently working on health inequalities in urban contexts. I received my PhD in Human Geography in 2009 from the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense (France). It concerns the questions raised by patients’ movements at a regional scale, more precisely along the Lao-Thai border area. I also worked in the area of medical tourism in Thailand with Bertrand Lefebvre (The rebirth of the hospital: heterotopia and medical tourism in Asia, Asia on Tour: Exploring the rise of Asian tourism, Tim Winter, Peggy Teo, T.C. Chang, London, Routledge, 2008). My postdoctoral research focused on the circulation of medicinal plants and therapeutic knowledge among the Hmong diaspora between Lao PDR, United States and France. I teach on the BSc in Social Geography, Health geography, Economic Globalization, Geographic Information System (GIS), Spatial Analysis and MSc in Health Geography, Research Methodology and Globalization and Health.
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Angela Freitas
Position: Junior researcher, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Centre of Studies on Geography and Territory Planning, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Institute Website: http://www.uc.pt/fluc/gigs
Contact: angelafreitas30@gmail.com
Personal profile:
Geographer. PhD candidate on Geography and MSc in Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Planning.
Junior researcher at the Health Geography Research Group of the Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), University of Coimbra, Portugal. From 2012 to 2015, research fellow of the project “GeoHealthS. Geography of Health Status: An application of a Population Health Index in the last 20 Years”, a national-funded project which aimed to evaluate Portuguese population health, in a multidimensional and disaggregated way, at a municipality scale. Since 2015, researcher of the project “EURO-HEALTHY – Shaping EUROpean policies to promote HEALTH equity”, EU funded project which aims to advance knowledge of policies that have the highest potential to enhance health and health equity across European regions with particular focus on metropolitan areas.
Research interest: population health, social and geographical inequalities in health, policies, urban planning and health. Currently she’s developing the PhD thesis on the role of local governments in promoting population health through spatial planning interventions and strategies.
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Position: Junior researcher, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Centre of Studies on Geography and Territory Planning, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Institute Website: http://www.uc.pt/fluc/gigs
Contact: angelafreitas30@gmail.com
Personal profile:
Geographer. PhD candidate on Geography and MSc in Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Planning.
Junior researcher at the Health Geography Research Group of the Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), University of Coimbra, Portugal. From 2012 to 2015, research fellow of the project “GeoHealthS. Geography of Health Status: An application of a Population Health Index in the last 20 Years”, a national-funded project which aimed to evaluate Portuguese population health, in a multidimensional and disaggregated way, at a municipality scale. Since 2015, researcher of the project “EURO-HEALTHY – Shaping EUROpean policies to promote HEALTH equity”, EU funded project which aims to advance knowledge of policies that have the highest potential to enhance health and health equity across European regions with particular focus on metropolitan areas.
Research interest: population health, social and geographical inequalities in health, policies, urban planning and health. Currently she’s developing the PhD thesis on the role of local governments in promoting population health through spatial planning interventions and strategies.
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Dmirty Orlov
Position: Researcher
Affiliation: Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Contact Information: orlovmsu@gmail.com
Institute webpage: http://www.eng.geogr.msu.ru/
Personal profile:
Dmitry Orlov is research worker at Department of Biogeography, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University. He has work experience in Russian and international research projects on various issues concerning environment and health. He is participant of international conferences and seminars on the Health and Environment theme. His research interests cover Medical Geography, Environmental Health and Urban Health
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Position: Researcher
Affiliation: Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Contact Information: orlovmsu@gmail.com
Institute webpage: http://www.eng.geogr.msu.ru/
Personal profile:
Dmitry Orlov is research worker at Department of Biogeography, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University. He has work experience in Russian and international research projects on various issues concerning environment and health. He is participant of international conferences and seminars on the Health and Environment theme. His research interests cover Medical Geography, Environmental Health and Urban Health
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Carlos Marcelo Leveau
Position: Research fellow
Affiliation: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina
Institute Website: http://www.unla.edu.ar/index.php/instituto-de-salud-colectiva-presentacion
Contact: cmleveau@hotmail.com
Personal profile: I started studying Geography in 2004. Six years later, in 2010, I finished a degree in Geography. During the last years of study at university I became interested in the phenomenon of counterurbanization – briefly described as a process of population concentration in Argentina experienced in recent decades. Product of this research I did my thesis and published several articles in international journals.
After completing a degree in Geography, I met Jorge Ungaro and Clotilde Ubeda, two researchers who introduced me to the field of injury epidemiology. I started working with them interested in the spatial study of deaths from traffic injuries. At the same time I started the PhD in Geography focused on this subject. In 2012 I won a fellowship at the National Institute of Epidemiology (Ministry of Health of the Nation). This grant also enabled me to begin to pursue an MSc in Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management at the National University of Lanús. Since 2014 I obtained a fellowship at the Institute of Collective Health of the National University of Lanus.
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Position: Research fellow
Affiliation: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina
Institute Website: http://www.unla.edu.ar/index.php/instituto-de-salud-colectiva-presentacion
Contact: cmleveau@hotmail.com
Personal profile: I started studying Geography in 2004. Six years later, in 2010, I finished a degree in Geography. During the last years of study at university I became interested in the phenomenon of counterurbanization – briefly described as a process of population concentration in Argentina experienced in recent decades. Product of this research I did my thesis and published several articles in international journals.
After completing a degree in Geography, I met Jorge Ungaro and Clotilde Ubeda, two researchers who introduced me to the field of injury epidemiology. I started working with them interested in the spatial study of deaths from traffic injuries. At the same time I started the PhD in Geography focused on this subject. In 2012 I won a fellowship at the National Institute of Epidemiology (Ministry of Health of the Nation). This grant also enabled me to begin to pursue an MSc in Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management at the National University of Lanús. Since 2014 I obtained a fellowship at the Institute of Collective Health of the National University of Lanus.
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Jonathen Cinnamon
Position: Lecturer
Affiliation: University of Exeter, UK
Contact: J.Cinnamon@exeter.ac.uk
Institute Webpage: http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Jonathan_Cinnamon
Personal profile: Jonathan Cinnamon is a lecturer in human geography. Broadly trained in the discipline, Jonathan is interested in health geographies, GIS, cities, data, and technology. He completed a BA with honours at Ryerson University in Toronto in 2007. In 2009 he received a MA from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and in 2013 completed his PhD, also at SFU. Prior to coming to Exeter, he was a visiting scholar at Ohio State University, funded by a postdoctoral award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Position: Lecturer
Affiliation: University of Exeter, UK
Contact: J.Cinnamon@exeter.ac.uk
Institute Webpage: http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Jonathan_Cinnamon
Personal profile: Jonathan Cinnamon is a lecturer in human geography. Broadly trained in the discipline, Jonathan is interested in health geographies, GIS, cities, data, and technology. He completed a BA with honours at Ryerson University in Toronto in 2007. In 2009 he received a MA from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and in 2013 completed his PhD, also at SFU. Prior to coming to Exeter, he was a visiting scholar at Ohio State University, funded by a postdoctoral award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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