Steering Committee Members IGU CHE 2021-2024
Helen Gurgel, Co-Chair (Brazil)
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile: Geographer, specialization in Geoinformatics, PhD in Geography and Development Practice (University Paris X, 2006). Currently holds an associate professor and advisor at the University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil. Coordinator of the Laboratory of Geography, Environment and Health (LAGAS-UnB) and the Mixed International Laboratory (LMI-SENTINELA) in partnership with IRD (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development) and Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation of Brazil). It operates in research and teaching in the field of Geography and Health, with an emphasis on Geotechnology and on the following themes: environment, climate, indicators, spatial-temporal analysis, public policies and information management.
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Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile: Geographer, specialization in Geoinformatics, PhD in Geography and Development Practice (University Paris X, 2006). Currently holds an associate professor and advisor at the University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil. Coordinator of the Laboratory of Geography, Environment and Health (LAGAS-UnB) and the Mixed International Laboratory (LMI-SENTINELA) in partnership with IRD (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development) and Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation of Brazil). It operates in research and teaching in the field of Geography and Health, with an emphasis on Geotechnology and on the following themes: environment, climate, indicators, spatial-temporal analysis, public policies and information management.
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Liliana Dumitrache, Co-Chair (Romania)
Affiliation: Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Romania
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Dr. Liliana Dumitrache is a Professor and Head of the Department of Human Geography at, the University of Bucarest. Dr Dumitrache’s current academic activity, research and teaching wise, is focussed on Geodemography and Geography of Health and Health Care, being responsible for managing both master's and undergraduate degrees on offer by her institution. She is the geographer to have introduced Geography of Health and Health Care as a teaching course in higher education curricula along with doing research in this field in Romania. Her research interest in studying health started as early as completing her PhD thesis, published in 2004 under the title of,, The Romanian population health status -a geographic approach’ publication which has been awarded by the Romanian Academy (Award Simion Mehedinti–2006).
She has coordinated and supervised numerous students in their research activity in the field of Geography of Health. She has conducted research projects such as The geographic distribution of diseases and the main risk factors in Romania, (2002-2004); The dynamic of health and health care in post-communist Romania through the perspective of European accession (2004-2006); Regional Disparities of Health and Health Care in post communist Romania and contextual European Effects (2006-2008); Geographical Distribution of Health Care Resources and its Impact on Romania’s Population Health(2007-2009); La migration féminine hautement qualifie dans le secteur de sante de Roumanie et Bulgarie vers la France : enjeux , défis et perspectives futures(2011-2013) and she has extensively published, books and articles within the subject area being the promoter of the geographical research in this field in Romania. Her current research interest focuses particularly on health care, health care reform and policies, and demographic ageing.
Dr Dumitrache is an active member of various professional organizations and associations, is a member of the Editorial Board of several geographic publications and is Editor in Chief of Human Geographies – Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography.
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Affiliation: Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Romania
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Dr. Liliana Dumitrache is a Professor and Head of the Department of Human Geography at, the University of Bucarest. Dr Dumitrache’s current academic activity, research and teaching wise, is focussed on Geodemography and Geography of Health and Health Care, being responsible for managing both master's and undergraduate degrees on offer by her institution. She is the geographer to have introduced Geography of Health and Health Care as a teaching course in higher education curricula along with doing research in this field in Romania. Her research interest in studying health started as early as completing her PhD thesis, published in 2004 under the title of,, The Romanian population health status -a geographic approach’ publication which has been awarded by the Romanian Academy (Award Simion Mehedinti–2006).
She has coordinated and supervised numerous students in their research activity in the field of Geography of Health. She has conducted research projects such as The geographic distribution of diseases and the main risk factors in Romania, (2002-2004); The dynamic of health and health care in post-communist Romania through the perspective of European accession (2004-2006); Regional Disparities of Health and Health Care in post communist Romania and contextual European Effects (2006-2008); Geographical Distribution of Health Care Resources and its Impact on Romania’s Population Health(2007-2009); La migration féminine hautement qualifie dans le secteur de sante de Roumanie et Bulgarie vers la France : enjeux , défis et perspectives futures(2011-2013) and she has extensively published, books and articles within the subject area being the promoter of the geographical research in this field in Romania. Her current research interest focuses particularly on health care, health care reform and policies, and demographic ageing.
Dr Dumitrache is an active member of various professional organizations and associations, is a member of the Editorial Board of several geographic publications and is Editor in Chief of Human Geographies – Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography.
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Eva Pilot, Steering Group member and Scientific Secretary, (Netherlands)
Affiliation: Health Geography and System Thinking Group Maastricht University, Netherlands
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile: I am interested in the field of health geography, urban health, health equity, health information ecosystems, environment and health and public health surveillance. My research focuses on the link between place, policies and health equity from a social, spatial and political perspective. My teaching is linked to European Public Health, Global Health and Health Geography.
I have been a member of the IGU Commission on Health and the Environment since the end of my study time in 2006. I am passionate about health geography overall and specifically in helping to facilitate connections in the field of environment and health and to organize strategic meetings and events for the commission.
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Affiliation: Health Geography and System Thinking Group Maastricht University, Netherlands
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile: I am interested in the field of health geography, urban health, health equity, health information ecosystems, environment and health and public health surveillance. My research focuses on the link between place, policies and health equity from a social, spatial and political perspective. My teaching is linked to European Public Health, Global Health and Health Geography.
I have been a member of the IGU Commission on Health and the Environment since the end of my study time in 2006. I am passionate about health geography overall and specifically in helping to facilitate connections in the field of environment and health and to organize strategic meetings and events for the commission.
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Yang Linsheng, Steering Committee Member (China)
Affiliation: Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Born on 1966, Prof. Yang is the Director of Department of Environmental Geography and Human Health, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has co-authored more than 200 papers and 9 books. His main research interests are about chemical elements in environment and human health, GEC and human health, and environmental health risk assessment. Prof.Yang has been and is in charge of several project, including Natural Science Foundation, National Support Program, Institutional Directional Project and ect..
Prof. Yang is board director of the Geography Society of China, the director of Medical Geography committee of the Geography Society of China, the committee member of Environmental Medical and Environmental Health committee of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, the committee member of Heavy Metal Pollution Prevention committee of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, and the director of Youth committee of the Chinese Medical Association.
Selected Publications:
Li Chan-juan, Chai Yuan-qingYang, Lin-sheng*, Spatio-temporal distribution of flood disasters and analysis of influencing factors in Africa, Natural Hazards, 82(2): 721-731,2016
Binggan Wei, Jiangping Yu, Yunshe Dong, Linsheng Yang*, Jing Wang, Yuan Xue, Shufang Guo. Effects of drip irrigation on migration and distribution of heavy metals in soil profile. Environ Sci Pollut Res, 23(4): 3632-3640, 2016.
Binggan Wei, Jiangping Yu, Hairong Li, Linsheng Yang *, Yajuan Xia, Kegong Wu, Jianwei Gao, Zhiwei Guo, Na Cui. Arsenic Metabolites and Methylation Capacity Among Individuals Living in a Rural Area with Endemic Arseniasis in Inner Mongolia, China. Biol Trace Elem Res, 170( 2): 300-308, 2016.
Zhang, FS, Xie, YF, Li, XW, Wang, DY, Yang, LS，Nie, ZQ，Accumulation of steroid hormones in soil and its adjacent aquatic environment from a typical intensive vegetable cultivation of North China，Science of the Total Environment, 538: 423-430,2015.
Zhang Xiuwu, Yang Linsheng*, Li Yonghua, Li Hairong, Wang Wuyi, Ge Quansheng. Estimation of lead and zinc emissions from mineral exploitation based on characteristics of lead/zinc deposits in China Trans Nonferrous Met Soc China, 21:2513−2519,2011.
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Affiliation: Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Born on 1966, Prof. Yang is the Director of Department of Environmental Geography and Human Health, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has co-authored more than 200 papers and 9 books. His main research interests are about chemical elements in environment and human health, GEC and human health, and environmental health risk assessment. Prof.Yang has been and is in charge of several project, including Natural Science Foundation, National Support Program, Institutional Directional Project and ect..
Prof. Yang is board director of the Geography Society of China, the director of Medical Geography committee of the Geography Society of China, the committee member of Environmental Medical and Environmental Health committee of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, the committee member of Heavy Metal Pollution Prevention committee of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, and the director of Youth committee of the Chinese Medical Association.
Selected Publications:
Li Chan-juan, Chai Yuan-qingYang, Lin-sheng*, Spatio-temporal distribution of flood disasters and analysis of influencing factors in Africa, Natural Hazards, 82(2): 721-731,2016
Binggan Wei, Jiangping Yu, Yunshe Dong, Linsheng Yang*, Jing Wang, Yuan Xue, Shufang Guo. Effects of drip irrigation on migration and distribution of heavy metals in soil profile. Environ Sci Pollut Res, 23(4): 3632-3640, 2016.
Binggan Wei, Jiangping Yu, Hairong Li, Linsheng Yang *, Yajuan Xia, Kegong Wu, Jianwei Gao, Zhiwei Guo, Na Cui. Arsenic Metabolites and Methylation Capacity Among Individuals Living in a Rural Area with Endemic Arseniasis in Inner Mongolia, China. Biol Trace Elem Res, 170( 2): 300-308, 2016.
Zhang, FS, Xie, YF, Li, XW, Wang, DY, Yang, LS，Nie, ZQ，Accumulation of steroid hormones in soil and its adjacent aquatic environment from a typical intensive vegetable cultivation of North China，Science of the Total Environment, 538: 423-430,2015.
Zhang Xiuwu, Yang Linsheng*, Li Yonghua, Li Hairong, Wang Wuyi, Ge Quansheng. Estimation of lead and zinc emissions from mineral exploitation based on characteristics of lead/zinc deposits in China Trans Nonferrous Met Soc China, 21:2513−2519,2011.
More publications: Researchgate
Blaise Nguendo Yongsi, Steering Committee Member (Cameroon)
Affiliation: IFORD-University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
H. Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi is a native of Cameroon. He received his master's degree and his PhD in Health Geography at the University of Paris X-France, then has served as Professional Researcher at the Geriatric Research Center-University of Montreal. He is currently working as Senior Lecturer in Population and Health with the Institute for Training & Research in population Studies (IFORD - University of Yaoundé II - Cameroon), and as Associate Professor in Epidemiology&Biostatistics at the School of Health Sciences-Central Africa Catholic University. His areas of research cover urban health, environmental change, health of vulnerable populations, and non-communicable diseases. Much of Nguendo-Yongsi’s work is guided by socio-spatial disparities patterns of diseases and explores social and physical health determinants as being the main risks factors of diseases in developing societies.
Selected Publications:
Nguendo Yongsi HB. 2016. Suffering from the disease and be offended of: stigmatization of individuals with mental illnesses in Cameroon. International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal, 5(4): 1-14. DOI: 10.9734/INDJ/2016/21381 http://sciencedomain.org/issue/1354
Nguendo Yongsi HB. 2015. Assessment and comparison of bacteriological quality of drinking water in Yaoundé metropolis (Cameroon). Tropiques Santé. No 4, pp. 25-46.
Nguendo Yongsi HB. 2015. Putting one’s all into Family, Damaging One’s Health: Physiological Status of Rural Women Involved in Economic Activities in Cameroon. J Family Med Community Health 2(5):1044. http://www.jscimedcentral.com/FamilyMedicine/familymedicine-2-1044.pdf
Nguendo Yongsi H.B., AbondoNgwa O, 2014. Trends and Risks Factors Associated to Women Obesity in Cameroon and Gabon. American Journal of Health Research. Vol.2, No.6, pp.420-428. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.20140206.26 [http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo.aspx?journalid=656&doi=10.11648/j.ajhr.20140206.26]
Humphrey NgalaNdi, H.B. NguendoYongsi. Health care delivery in Bamenda: pattern and process. In : NguendoYongsiH.B.,Bryant R. Christopher.2008.Visages et défis des principales villes camerounaises. Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, pp. 49-67.
Affiliation: IFORD-University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
H. Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi is a native of Cameroon. He received his master's degree and his PhD in Health Geography at the University of Paris X-France, then has served as Professional Researcher at the Geriatric Research Center-University of Montreal. He is currently working as Senior Lecturer in Population and Health with the Institute for Training & Research in population Studies (IFORD - University of Yaoundé II - Cameroon), and as Associate Professor in Epidemiology&Biostatistics at the School of Health Sciences-Central Africa Catholic University. His areas of research cover urban health, environmental change, health of vulnerable populations, and non-communicable diseases. Much of Nguendo-Yongsi’s work is guided by socio-spatial disparities patterns of diseases and explores social and physical health determinants as being the main risks factors of diseases in developing societies.
Selected Publications:
Nguendo Yongsi HB. 2016. Suffering from the disease and be offended of: stigmatization of individuals with mental illnesses in Cameroon. International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal, 5(4): 1-14. DOI: 10.9734/INDJ/2016/21381 http://sciencedomain.org/issue/1354
Nguendo Yongsi HB. 2015. Assessment and comparison of bacteriological quality of drinking water in Yaoundé metropolis (Cameroon). Tropiques Santé. No 4, pp. 25-46.
Nguendo Yongsi HB. 2015. Putting one’s all into Family, Damaging One’s Health: Physiological Status of Rural Women Involved in Economic Activities in Cameroon. J Family Med Community Health 2(5):1044. http://www.jscimedcentral.com/FamilyMedicine/familymedicine-2-1044.pdf
Nguendo Yongsi H.B., AbondoNgwa O, 2014. Trends and Risks Factors Associated to Women Obesity in Cameroon and Gabon. American Journal of Health Research. Vol.2, No.6, pp.420-428. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.20140206.26 [http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo.aspx?journalid=656&doi=10.11648/j.ajhr.20140206.26]
Humphrey NgalaNdi, H.B. NguendoYongsi. Health care delivery in Bamenda: pattern and process. In : NguendoYongsiH.B.,Bryant R. Christopher.2008.Visages et défis des principales villes camerounaises. Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, pp. 49-67.
Sarah Lovell , Steering Committee Member (New Zealand)
Affiliation: University of Canterbury
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Dr Lovell has an academic background in Health Geography having completed her PhD at Queen’s University in 2007. In subsequent years she has undertaken Canadian Commonwealth and BRCSS Postdoctoral Fellowships and taught health policy at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In her current role as Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, Dr Lovell coordinates the Bachelor of Health Sciences. Dr Lovell is passionate about how social and economic change impacts health and health policy. Her research interests address the implications of neoliberal policy making for communities, the health workforce, and public health practice, with a particular emphasis on sexual and reproductive health and health promotion.
Selected Publications:
Lovell, SA. (2017) Ageing Communities. In Skinner, M, Andrews, G, Cutchin, M (Ed.), Geographical Gerontology: Concepts and Approaches. Routledge.
Lovell, SA., Gray, A. and Boucher, S. (2016) Place, health, and community attachment: Is community capacity associated with self-rated health at the individual level? SSM - Population Health 3.
Lovell, SA., Egan, R., Robertson, L. and Hicks, K. (2015) Health promotion funding, workforce recruitment and turnover in New Zealand. Journal of Primary Health Care 7(2): 153-157.
Lovell, SA., Kearns, RA. and Prince, R. (2014) Neoliberalism and the contract state: exploring innovation and resistance among New Zealand health promoters. Critical Public Health 24(3): 308-320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.808317#.VERJyxDlZ5A
Lovell, SA., Gray, AR. and Boucher, SE. (2014) Developing and validating a measure of community capacity: Why volunteers make the best neighbours. Social Science and Medicine 133: 261-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.049.
Affiliation: University of Canterbury
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Dr Lovell has an academic background in Health Geography having completed her PhD at Queen’s University in 2007. In subsequent years she has undertaken Canadian Commonwealth and BRCSS Postdoctoral Fellowships and taught health policy at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In her current role as Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, Dr Lovell coordinates the Bachelor of Health Sciences. Dr Lovell is passionate about how social and economic change impacts health and health policy. Her research interests address the implications of neoliberal policy making for communities, the health workforce, and public health practice, with a particular emphasis on sexual and reproductive health and health promotion.
Selected Publications:
Lovell, SA. (2017) Ageing Communities. In Skinner, M, Andrews, G, Cutchin, M (Ed.), Geographical Gerontology: Concepts and Approaches. Routledge.
Lovell, SA., Gray, A. and Boucher, S. (2016) Place, health, and community attachment: Is community capacity associated with self-rated health at the individual level? SSM - Population Health 3.
Lovell, SA., Egan, R., Robertson, L. and Hicks, K. (2015) Health promotion funding, workforce recruitment and turnover in New Zealand. Journal of Primary Health Care 7(2): 153-157.
Lovell, SA., Kearns, RA. and Prince, R. (2014) Neoliberalism and the contract state: exploring innovation and resistance among New Zealand health promoters. Critical Public Health 24(3): 308-320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.808317#.VERJyxDlZ5A
Lovell, SA., Gray, AR. and Boucher, SE. (2014) Developing and validating a measure of community capacity: Why volunteers make the best neighbours. Social Science and Medicine 133: 261-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.049.
Aminata NIANG-DIENE, Steering Committee Member (Senegal)
Affiliation: Department of Geography, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
After a Ph.D. in Human Geography in 1997, she obtained a Habilitation Tenure Track Professor, in 2013, at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal. His Post-doctoral thesis is relative to “Decentralization and the reforms of the health system in Senegal: stakes and practices”.
Her research interests are in Geography applied to Health, with focus on Health systems governance, Reproductive health, Spatial analysis on health care accessibility, Health as related to environmental/social issues, health transition theory.
She is currently managing the Master’s Degree program on “Environment, Territories, Populations and Health”, which is the first Master’s specialized in Health Geography in the Western Francophone Africa, initiated in 2010 in collaboration with the University of Nanterre (Paris-Ouest, France) and the Gaston Berger University (Senegal). Mrs. NIANG-DIENE is also the Director, in charge of studies of the PhD Program on: “Water, Environment and Health” of the Graduate College on Water, Quality and Uses (EDEQUE), and a Founding Member of the African network for Training and Research in Territories and Health, established in 2014.
Selected Publication:
Niang-Diène A. (2015): “The legitimation of traditional medicine in Senegal: between institutional issues, actors’ strategies and therapeutic practices”. In Offre, recours et accès aux soins parallèles en Afrique, chapitre 2 : 47-64. Socpa A. Nguendo-Yongsi B. et Djouda-Feudjio Y. B. (eds). International Journal of Advanced Studies and Research in Africa. www.africascience.org/journal. Collection:Science et Découvertes, 310 p.
Niang-Diène A. and Salem G. (2014): “Dynamics of Diseases in Senegal: Epidemiological Transition or Health Transition?” Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique (2015) 108: p. 201-207
Niang-Diène A. (2013):“Community-based Services: an Alternative for the Improvement of Knowledge and Practices in Maternal and Child Health in Senegal?” Dakar, Annals of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Cheikh Anta Diop University, n°43/B-2013:p.73-84.
Faye S.-L., Niang-Diène A. and Desclaux A. (eds.): Health and Mobility from North to South: Movement of People, Evolution of Practices. Presses Universitaires de Dakar, Revue de Sociologie/Anthropologie/Psychologie, n° 2,2010.
MinvielleJ.P., Diop A. and Niang A. (2005): Poverty in Senegal: from Statistics to Reality. Paris, Editions Karthala, 2005.
Affiliation: Department of Geography, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
After a Ph.D. in Human Geography in 1997, she obtained a Habilitation Tenure Track Professor, in 2013, at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal. His Post-doctoral thesis is relative to “Decentralization and the reforms of the health system in Senegal: stakes and practices”.
Her research interests are in Geography applied to Health, with focus on Health systems governance, Reproductive health, Spatial analysis on health care accessibility, Health as related to environmental/social issues, health transition theory.
She is currently managing the Master’s Degree program on “Environment, Territories, Populations and Health”, which is the first Master’s specialized in Health Geography in the Western Francophone Africa, initiated in 2010 in collaboration with the University of Nanterre (Paris-Ouest, France) and the Gaston Berger University (Senegal). Mrs. NIANG-DIENE is also the Director, in charge of studies of the PhD Program on: “Water, Environment and Health” of the Graduate College on Water, Quality and Uses (EDEQUE), and a Founding Member of the African network for Training and Research in Territories and Health, established in 2014.
Selected Publication:
Niang-Diène A. (2015): “The legitimation of traditional medicine in Senegal: between institutional issues, actors’ strategies and therapeutic practices”. In Offre, recours et accès aux soins parallèles en Afrique, chapitre 2 : 47-64. Socpa A. Nguendo-Yongsi B. et Djouda-Feudjio Y. B. (eds). International Journal of Advanced Studies and Research in Africa. www.africascience.org/journal. Collection:Science et Découvertes, 310 p.
Niang-Diène A. and Salem G. (2014): “Dynamics of Diseases in Senegal: Epidemiological Transition or Health Transition?” Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique (2015) 108: p. 201-207
Niang-Diène A. (2013):“Community-based Services: an Alternative for the Improvement of Knowledge and Practices in Maternal and Child Health in Senegal?” Dakar, Annals of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Cheikh Anta Diop University, n°43/B-2013:p.73-84.
Faye S.-L., Niang-Diène A. and Desclaux A. (eds.): Health and Mobility from North to South: Movement of People, Evolution of Practices. Presses Universitaires de Dakar, Revue de Sociologie/Anthropologie/Psychologie, n° 2,2010.
MinvielleJ.P., Diop A. and Niang A. (2005): Poverty in Senegal: from Statistics to Reality. Paris, Editions Karthala, 2005.
Susan J. Elliott, Steering Committee Member (Canada)
Affiliation: Department of Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Professor of Geography and Public Health, Elliott has worked as a faculty member at 3 Canadian research intensive universities. She has an active research career, with over 150 peer reviewed publications related to environment and (public) health, focused on Canada and the developing world. She has also supervised 30+ graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to completion. She has undertaken a range of administrative and research leadership roles including Director of the Institute of Environment and Health (McMaster), Senior Research Fellow in the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Dean of Social Sciences (McMaster) and Dean of Health Sciences (Waterloo). For the past 6 years, she has been a program lead for the AllerGen NCE (gene environment interactions as they relate to allergic disease) for the theme: Patients, Policy and Public Health. She is PI for the development of a National Food Allergy Strategy for Canada and the PI of GLOWING – the development of a Global Index of Wellbeing, based upon the successful Canadian Index of Wellbeing. She is also a Senior Editor for Social Science and Medicine.
Selected Publications:
Harrington DW, McLafferty SL and Elliott SJ (eds.), Population Health Intervention Research: Geographical Perspectives. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group: New York. 2016.
Gatrell, A.C. and Elliott, S.J. Geographies of Health, Third Edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Dixon, J. & Elliott S.J. Exploring End-user Experiences in the Co-production of Knowledge Through Integrated Knowledge Translation: A Biomedical Investigation of the Causes and Consequences of Food Allergy. Research Involvement and Engagement. 2016. 2:27.
Atiim, G.A. & Elliott, S.J. The Global Epidemiologic Transition: Noncommunicable Diseases and Emerging Health Risk of Allergic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa. Health and Education Behaviour. 2016, 41(IS) 37S-55S.
Bisung, E. & Elliott, S.J. ‘Everyone is exhausted and frustrated’: exploring psychosocial impacts of the lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation in Usoma, Kenya. Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 2016. 6(2): 205-214. DOI: 10.2166/washdev.2016.122
Affiliation: Department of Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Professor of Geography and Public Health, Elliott has worked as a faculty member at 3 Canadian research intensive universities. She has an active research career, with over 150 peer reviewed publications related to environment and (public) health, focused on Canada and the developing world. She has also supervised 30+ graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to completion. She has undertaken a range of administrative and research leadership roles including Director of the Institute of Environment and Health (McMaster), Senior Research Fellow in the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Dean of Social Sciences (McMaster) and Dean of Health Sciences (Waterloo). For the past 6 years, she has been a program lead for the AllerGen NCE (gene environment interactions as they relate to allergic disease) for the theme: Patients, Policy and Public Health. She is PI for the development of a National Food Allergy Strategy for Canada and the PI of GLOWING – the development of a Global Index of Wellbeing, based upon the successful Canadian Index of Wellbeing. She is also a Senior Editor for Social Science and Medicine.
Selected Publications:
Harrington DW, McLafferty SL and Elliott SJ (eds.), Population Health Intervention Research: Geographical Perspectives. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group: New York. 2016.
Gatrell, A.C. and Elliott, S.J. Geographies of Health, Third Edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Dixon, J. & Elliott S.J. Exploring End-user Experiences in the Co-production of Knowledge Through Integrated Knowledge Translation: A Biomedical Investigation of the Causes and Consequences of Food Allergy. Research Involvement and Engagement. 2016. 2:27.
Atiim, G.A. & Elliott, S.J. The Global Epidemiologic Transition: Noncommunicable Diseases and Emerging Health Risk of Allergic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa. Health and Education Behaviour. 2016, 41(IS) 37S-55S.
Bisung, E. & Elliott, S.J. ‘Everyone is exhausted and frustrated’: exploring psychosocial impacts of the lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation in Usoma, Kenya. Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 2016. 6(2): 205-214. DOI: 10.2166/washdev.2016.122
Julie Vallée, Steering Committee Member (France)
Affiliation: CNRS, Géographie-cités laboratory (Paris, France)
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
I am conducting theoretical and empirical research devoted to spatial mechanisms of health inequalities in urban areas. I aim to better understand how people experience their neighborhood and their city, how they access physical and social resources and how variability in place experiences and in resources accessibility may translate into inequalities in health.
I am coordinating RelatHealth project in which we adopt relational approach to place effects on health status and health behavior in Paris (France) and Montreal (Canada) through considering people’s daily mobility and neighborhood experiences.
More details available on my webpage or on RelatHealth website
Selected Publications:
Vallée J, Le Roux G, Chaix B, Kestens Y, Chauvin P, 2015. The ‘constant size neighbourhood trap’ in accessibility and health studies. Urban Studies. Vol. 52(2) 338–357. Text
Vallée J, Shareck M, 2014. Can we claim spatial misclassification of neighborhood exposures without any reference to people? Re: Examination of How Neighborhood Definition Influences Measurements of Youths’ Access to Tobacco Retailers- A Methodological Note on Spatial Misclassification. American Journal of Epidemiology - Letter to the Editor 179(5): 660–662. Text
Vallée J, Chauvin P, 2012. Investigating the effects of medical density on health-seeking behaviours using a multiscale approach to residential and activity spaces. Results from a prospective cohort study in the Paris metropolitan area, France. International Journal of Health Geographics 11:54. Text
Vallée J, Cadot E, Roustit C, Parizot I, Chauvin P, 2011. The role of daily mobility in mental health inequalities: the interactive influence of activity space and neighbourhood of residence on depression. Social Science & Medicine73 (8), pp 1133-1144. Text
Vallée J, Cadot E, Grillo F, Parizot I, Chauvin P, 2010. The combined effects of perceived activity space and neighbourhood of residence on participation in preventive health-care activities. The case of cervical screening in the Paris metropolitan area (France), Health & Place, 16(5), 838-852. Text
Affiliation: CNRS, Géographie-cités laboratory (Paris, France)
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
I am conducting theoretical and empirical research devoted to spatial mechanisms of health inequalities in urban areas. I aim to better understand how people experience their neighborhood and their city, how they access physical and social resources and how variability in place experiences and in resources accessibility may translate into inequalities in health.
I am coordinating RelatHealth project in which we adopt relational approach to place effects on health status and health behavior in Paris (France) and Montreal (Canada) through considering people’s daily mobility and neighborhood experiences.
More details available on my webpage or on RelatHealth website
Selected Publications:
Vallée J, Le Roux G, Chaix B, Kestens Y, Chauvin P, 2015. The ‘constant size neighbourhood trap’ in accessibility and health studies. Urban Studies. Vol. 52(2) 338–357. Text
Vallée J, Shareck M, 2014. Can we claim spatial misclassification of neighborhood exposures without any reference to people? Re: Examination of How Neighborhood Definition Influences Measurements of Youths’ Access to Tobacco Retailers- A Methodological Note on Spatial Misclassification. American Journal of Epidemiology - Letter to the Editor 179(5): 660–662. Text
Vallée J, Chauvin P, 2012. Investigating the effects of medical density on health-seeking behaviours using a multiscale approach to residential and activity spaces. Results from a prospective cohort study in the Paris metropolitan area, France. International Journal of Health Geographics 11:54. Text
Vallée J, Cadot E, Roustit C, Parizot I, Chauvin P, 2011. The role of daily mobility in mental health inequalities: the interactive influence of activity space and neighbourhood of residence on depression. Social Science & Medicine73 (8), pp 1133-1144. Text
Vallée J, Cadot E, Grillo F, Parizot I, Chauvin P, 2010. The combined effects of perceived activity space and neighbourhood of residence on participation in preventive health-care activities. The case of cervical screening in the Paris metropolitan area (France), Health & Place, 16(5), 838-852. Text
Ricardo Almendra, Steering Committee Member (Portugal)
Affiliation: Centre of Studies on Geography and Territory Planning, University of Coimbra (CEGOT/UC) www.uc.pt/en/fluc/gigs/GeoHealths
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Ricardo Almendra, PhD in Human Geography is an invited assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Tourism of the Coimbra University and a researcher at Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning. He has participated in several European (e.g. Eurohealthy, Healiqs4cities, URB_HealthS) and Portuguese (e.g. Geohealths, Smaile, ClimaHabs) scientific projects. He was assessor at the High Commissioner for Health. His research currently focuses on the impact of socioeconomic determinants in the vulnerability to environmental conditions.
Selected Publications:
Almendra, R., Santana, P., & Costa, C. (2021). Spatial inequalities of COVID-19 incidence and associated socioeconomic risk factors in Portugal. Boletín de La Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, 91. https://doi.org/10.21138/bage.3160
de Moraes, S. L., Almendra, R., & Barrozo, L. (2021). Impact of heat waves and cold spells on cause-specific mortality in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 239, 113861. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.IJHEH.2021.113861
Almendra, R., Santana, P., Mitsakou, C., Heaviside, C., Samoli, E., Rodopoulou, S., Katsouyanni, K., & Vardoulakis, S. (2019). Cold-related mortality in three European metropolitan areas: Athens, Lisbon and London. Implications for health promotion. Urban Climate, 30, 100532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100532
Loureiro, A., Santana, P., Nunes, C., & Almendra, R. (2019). The Role of Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics on Mental Health after a Period of Economic Crisis in the Lisbon Region (Portugal): A Multilevel Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(15), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152647
Almendra, R., Santana, P., & Vasconcelos, J. (2017). Evidence of social deprivation on the spatial patterns of excess winter mortality. International Journal of Public Health, 62(8), 849–856. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-0964-7
Affiliation: Centre of Studies on Geography and Territory Planning, University of Coimbra (CEGOT/UC) www.uc.pt/en/fluc/gigs/GeoHealths
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Ricardo Almendra, PhD in Human Geography is an invited assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Tourism of the Coimbra University and a researcher at Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning. He has participated in several European (e.g. Eurohealthy, Healiqs4cities, URB_HealthS) and Portuguese (e.g. Geohealths, Smaile, ClimaHabs) scientific projects. He was assessor at the High Commissioner for Health. His research currently focuses on the impact of socioeconomic determinants in the vulnerability to environmental conditions.
Selected Publications:
Almendra, R., Santana, P., & Costa, C. (2021). Spatial inequalities of COVID-19 incidence and associated socioeconomic risk factors in Portugal. Boletín de La Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, 91. https://doi.org/10.21138/bage.3160
de Moraes, S. L., Almendra, R., & Barrozo, L. (2021). Impact of heat waves and cold spells on cause-specific mortality in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 239, 113861. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.IJHEH.2021.113861
Almendra, R., Santana, P., Mitsakou, C., Heaviside, C., Samoli, E., Rodopoulou, S., Katsouyanni, K., & Vardoulakis, S. (2019). Cold-related mortality in three European metropolitan areas: Athens, Lisbon and London. Implications for health promotion. Urban Climate, 30, 100532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100532
Loureiro, A., Santana, P., Nunes, C., & Almendra, R. (2019). The Role of Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics on Mental Health after a Period of Economic Crisis in the Lisbon Region (Portugal): A Multilevel Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(15), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152647
Almendra, R., Santana, P., & Vasconcelos, J. (2017). Evidence of social deprivation on the spatial patterns of excess winter mortality. International Journal of Public Health, 62(8), 849–856. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-0964-7
Dagmar Dzúrová, Steering Committee Member (Czechia)
Affiliation: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile: Prof. Dagmar Dzúrová, Ph.D. is a scholar with a research focus laying at the intersection of demography, social geography, and medical geography. Over the last several decades, her research has focused on the issues of population health, social inequalities in public health, and their determination by various demographic and socio-economic factors. Prof. Dzúrová has been the principal investigator or co-investigator of numerous domestic and international projects (including the projects supported by Horizon and FP7). The outcomes of these projects have been published in highly ranked and internationally recognized scientific journals. For the second time, she is the principal investigator of a six-year research program in geography, demography and geoinformatics funded by Charles University, which is designed to support the research excellence of young faculty members (UNCE 2012-2017 and 2018-2024). In addition to her active research program, Prof. Dzúrová has built a multidisciplinary master's degree program in Social Epidemiology at the Faculty of Science, one of its kind in Czechia.
Selected Publications:
Dzúrová, D., Květoň, V. (2021): How health capabilities and government restrictions affect the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-country differences in Europe, Applied Geography 135 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102551
Borrell, C., Palència, L., Bosakova, L., Gotsens, M., Morrison, J., Costa, C., Dzurova, D., Deboosere, P., Lustigova, M., Dell’Olmo, M., M., Rodopoulou, S., Santana, P. (2021): Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Cirrhosis Mortality in European Urban Areas before and after the Onset of the 2008 Economic Recession, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(16), 8801, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168801
Bailey, A., J., Drbohlav, D., Dzurova, D.(2021): Migrant Remitting as Transnational Practice: Moldovans in Italy and Czechia, SAGE Open, Volume 11, issuse2, https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211016457
Palencia, L., Ferrando, J., Marí-Dell’Olmo, M., Gotsens, M., Morrison, J., Dzurova, D., Lustigova, M., Costa, C., Rodríguez-Sanz, M., Bosakova, L, Santana, P., Borrell, C. (2020): Socio-economic inequalities on cancer mortality in nine European areas: The effect of the last economic recession, Cancer Epidemiology, 69, 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2020.101827
Lustigova, M., Dzurova, D., COSTA, C., SANTANA, P. (2019): Health Disparities in Czechia and Portugal at Country and Municipality Levels, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 16(7), 1139 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071139
Affiliation: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile: Prof. Dagmar Dzúrová, Ph.D. is a scholar with a research focus laying at the intersection of demography, social geography, and medical geography. Over the last several decades, her research has focused on the issues of population health, social inequalities in public health, and their determination by various demographic and socio-economic factors. Prof. Dzúrová has been the principal investigator or co-investigator of numerous domestic and international projects (including the projects supported by Horizon and FP7). The outcomes of these projects have been published in highly ranked and internationally recognized scientific journals. For the second time, she is the principal investigator of a six-year research program in geography, demography and geoinformatics funded by Charles University, which is designed to support the research excellence of young faculty members (UNCE 2012-2017 and 2018-2024). In addition to her active research program, Prof. Dzúrová has built a multidisciplinary master's degree program in Social Epidemiology at the Faculty of Science, one of its kind in Czechia.
Selected Publications:
Dzúrová, D., Květoň, V. (2021): How health capabilities and government restrictions affect the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-country differences in Europe, Applied Geography 135 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102551
Borrell, C., Palència, L., Bosakova, L., Gotsens, M., Morrison, J., Costa, C., Dzurova, D., Deboosere, P., Lustigova, M., Dell’Olmo, M., M., Rodopoulou, S., Santana, P. (2021): Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Cirrhosis Mortality in European Urban Areas before and after the Onset of the 2008 Economic Recession, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(16), 8801, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168801
Bailey, A., J., Drbohlav, D., Dzurova, D.(2021): Migrant Remitting as Transnational Practice: Moldovans in Italy and Czechia, SAGE Open, Volume 11, issuse2, https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211016457
Palencia, L., Ferrando, J., Marí-Dell’Olmo, M., Gotsens, M., Morrison, J., Dzurova, D., Lustigova, M., Costa, C., Rodríguez-Sanz, M., Bosakova, L, Santana, P., Borrell, C. (2020): Socio-economic inequalities on cancer mortality in nine European areas: The effect of the last economic recession, Cancer Epidemiology, 69, 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2020.101827
Lustigova, M., Dzurova, D., COSTA, C., SANTANA, P. (2019): Health Disparities in Czechia and Portugal at Country and Municipality Levels, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 16(7), 1139 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071139
Honorary Members IGU CHE
Prof. Yola Verhasselt (Belgium)
Affiliation: Professor emeritus at Free University of Brussels
Académie Royales des Sciences d’Outre-Mer
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Honorary Permanent Secretary of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences of Belgium
Former President of the National Committee for Geography of Belgium
Former Officer of ICSU (International Council for Science)
Former Trustee of IFS (International Foundation for Science)
Main research in geography of health, political geography and geography of development and lectured at many universities throughout the world.
Awards : Lauréat d’honneur of IGU (International Geographical Union), Prix Rahir de Géographie de la Société Royale Belge de Géographie
Two books have been published in honour :
- Global Medical Geography. Essays in Honour of Prof.Yola Verhasselt
Ed.Rais Akhtar & Nilofar Izhar. Rawat Publications,Jaipur,2010, 498 p.
- Hommage à la Secrétaire perpétuelle honoraire Yola Verhasselt
Académie Royale des Sciences d’Oure-Mer, Bruxelles,2006, 129 p.
Selected publications:
Geography of Health : some Trends and Perspectives Social Science and Medicine, vol36,2,1993, 119-124
(with D.R.Phillips) Health and Development Routledge, London & NewYork, 1994, 331 p.
(with BF Iyun & JA Hellen) The Health of Nations. Medecine,, disease and development in the Third World. Avebury, Aldershot, 1995, 295 p.
(with D.Willaert) World Atlas of Ageing WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe(Japan), 1998, 138 p.
Geografia de la salud : un desafio Anales 2006 Academia Nacional de Geografia, Buenos Aires, 2007, 175-181
Affiliation: Professor emeritus at Free University of Brussels
Académie Royales des Sciences d’Outre-Mer
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Honorary Permanent Secretary of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences of Belgium
Former President of the National Committee for Geography of Belgium
Former Officer of ICSU (International Council for Science)
Former Trustee of IFS (International Foundation for Science)
Main research in geography of health, political geography and geography of development and lectured at many universities throughout the world.
Awards : Lauréat d’honneur of IGU (International Geographical Union), Prix Rahir de Géographie de la Société Royale Belge de Géographie
Two books have been published in honour :
- Global Medical Geography. Essays in Honour of Prof.Yola Verhasselt
Ed.Rais Akhtar & Nilofar Izhar. Rawat Publications,Jaipur,2010, 498 p.
- Hommage à la Secrétaire perpétuelle honoraire Yola Verhasselt
Académie Royale des Sciences d’Oure-Mer, Bruxelles,2006, 129 p.
Selected publications:
Geography of Health : some Trends and Perspectives Social Science and Medicine, vol36,2,1993, 119-124
(with D.R.Phillips) Health and Development Routledge, London & NewYork, 1994, 331 p.
(with BF Iyun & JA Hellen) The Health of Nations. Medecine,, disease and development in the Third World. Avebury, Aldershot, 1995, 295 p.
(with D.Willaert) World Atlas of Ageing WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe(Japan), 1998, 138 p.
Geografia de la salud : un desafio Anales 2006 Academia Nacional de Geografia, Buenos Aires, 2007, 175-181
Prof. Mark W. Rosenberg (Canada)
Affiliation: Queen’s University
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Mark W. Rosenberg is a Professor of Geography and cross-appointed as a Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In 2006, Professor Rosenberg became the first winner of the Queen’s University Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision in the Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2008, he was made an Honorary Professor in the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research. In 2010, he was invited to be a Visiting Professor Senior International Scientists by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for the period 2011 to 2013. In 2012, Professor Rosenberg received a Queen’s Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal and became the Canada Research Chair in Development Studies. He also became an Adjunct Professor in the United Nations University Institute for Water, Health and the Environment. His research covers a wide range of topics including health and the environment, access to health care services, and vulnerable populations (especially older populations and Aboriginal Peoples).
Selected Publications:
Queiroz, Josiane, T.M., Mark W. Rosenberg, Léo Heller, Andréa L. M. Zhouri, Sara R. Silva (2012). “News about tap and bottled water: Can this influence people’s choices?” Journal of Environmental Protection. Vol. 3, pp. 324-333.
Cheng, Yang, Mark W. Rosenberg, Wuyi Wang, Linsheng Yang, and Hairong Li (2012). “Access to residential care in Beijing, China: Making the decision to relocate to a residential care facility,” Ageing & Society. 32, pp. 1277-1299 doi:10.1017/S0144686X11000870.
Cheng Yang, Jiaoe Wang, and Mark W. Rosenberg (2012). “Spatial access to residential care resources in Beijing, China,” International Journal of Health Geographics. 11:32, DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-11-32.
Herman, Katya, Wilma M. Hopman, and Mark W. Rosenberg (2013) “Self-rated health and life satisfaction among Canadian adults: Associations of perceived weight status versus BMI,” Quality of Life Research. DOI 10.1007/s11136-013-0394-9.
Harrington, Daniel W., Kathi Wilson, Mark W. Rosenberg and Scott Bell (2013). “Access granted! Barriers endure: Determinants of difficulties accessing specialist care when required in Ontario, Canada,” BMC Health Services Research. 13:146. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-146.
Affiliation: Queen’s University
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Mark W. Rosenberg is a Professor of Geography and cross-appointed as a Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In 2006, Professor Rosenberg became the first winner of the Queen’s University Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision in the Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2008, he was made an Honorary Professor in the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research. In 2010, he was invited to be a Visiting Professor Senior International Scientists by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for the period 2011 to 2013. In 2012, Professor Rosenberg received a Queen’s Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal and became the Canada Research Chair in Development Studies. He also became an Adjunct Professor in the United Nations University Institute for Water, Health and the Environment. His research covers a wide range of topics including health and the environment, access to health care services, and vulnerable populations (especially older populations and Aboriginal Peoples).
Selected Publications:
Queiroz, Josiane, T.M., Mark W. Rosenberg, Léo Heller, Andréa L. M. Zhouri, Sara R. Silva (2012). “News about tap and bottled water: Can this influence people’s choices?” Journal of Environmental Protection. Vol. 3, pp. 324-333.
Cheng, Yang, Mark W. Rosenberg, Wuyi Wang, Linsheng Yang, and Hairong Li (2012). “Access to residential care in Beijing, China: Making the decision to relocate to a residential care facility,” Ageing & Society. 32, pp. 1277-1299 doi:10.1017/S0144686X11000870.
Cheng Yang, Jiaoe Wang, and Mark W. Rosenberg (2012). “Spatial access to residential care resources in Beijing, China,” International Journal of Health Geographics. 11:32, DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-11-32.
Herman, Katya, Wilma M. Hopman, and Mark W. Rosenberg (2013) “Self-rated health and life satisfaction among Canadian adults: Associations of perceived weight status versus BMI,” Quality of Life Research. DOI 10.1007/s11136-013-0394-9.
Harrington, Daniel W., Kathi Wilson, Mark W. Rosenberg and Scott Bell (2013). “Access granted! Barriers endure: Determinants of difficulties accessing specialist care when required in Ontario, Canada,” BMC Health Services Research. 13:146. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-146.
Prof. Thomas Krafft (Netherlands)
Affiliation: CAPHRI School of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Trained as a health geographer Thomas Krafft joined the School for Public Health and Primary Care of Maastricht University in 2011. He is Adjunct Professor (Health Geography) at Bharati Vidyapeeth in Pune/India and Honarary Professor of the Institute for Geography and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing/China. His research focus is on public health surveillance, urban (environmental) health and global health. Currently he is co-chair of the European Academic Global Health Alliance (EAGHA) and member of the steering group of the World Federation of Academic Institutions for Global Health (WFAIGH).
Selected Publications:
Ziemann A, Rosenkötter N, Garcia-Castrillo Riesgo L, Fischer M, Krämer A, Lippert F, Vergeiner G, Brand H, Krafft T. (2015). Meeting the International Health Regulations (2005) surveillance core capacity requirements at the subnational level in Europe: the added value of syndromic surveillance, BMC Public Health, 15, 107
Kauhl B, Pilot E, Rao R, Gruebner O, Schweikart J, Krafft T. (2015) Estimating the spatial distribution of acute undifferentiated fever (AUF) and associated risk factors using emergency call data in India. A symptom-based approach for public health surveillance, Health & Place 31, 111-119
Aluttis C, Krafft T, Brand H. (2014) Global Health in the European Union - a Review from an Agenda-Setting Perspective. Global Health Action 7: 23610
Wang L, Wie B, Li Y, Li H, Zhang F, Rosenberg M, Yang L, Huang J, Wang W, Krafft T. (2014) A Study of Air Pollutants Influencing Life Expectancy and Longevity from Spatial Perspective in China. Science of the Total Environment 487: 57-64
Wang W, Krafft T, Rosenberg M, Pilot E (eds). Health and Environmental Change in Urban Areas. China Environment Press, Beijing 2014
More publications: Researchgate
Affiliation: CAPHRI School of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Trained as a health geographer Thomas Krafft joined the School for Public Health and Primary Care of Maastricht University in 2011. He is Adjunct Professor (Health Geography) at Bharati Vidyapeeth in Pune/India and Honarary Professor of the Institute for Geography and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing/China. His research focus is on public health surveillance, urban (environmental) health and global health. Currently he is co-chair of the European Academic Global Health Alliance (EAGHA) and member of the steering group of the World Federation of Academic Institutions for Global Health (WFAIGH).
Selected Publications:
Ziemann A, Rosenkötter N, Garcia-Castrillo Riesgo L, Fischer M, Krämer A, Lippert F, Vergeiner G, Brand H, Krafft T. (2015). Meeting the International Health Regulations (2005) surveillance core capacity requirements at the subnational level in Europe: the added value of syndromic surveillance, BMC Public Health, 15, 107
Kauhl B, Pilot E, Rao R, Gruebner O, Schweikart J, Krafft T. (2015) Estimating the spatial distribution of acute undifferentiated fever (AUF) and associated risk factors using emergency call data in India. A symptom-based approach for public health surveillance, Health & Place 31, 111-119
Aluttis C, Krafft T, Brand H. (2014) Global Health in the European Union - a Review from an Agenda-Setting Perspective. Global Health Action 7: 23610
Wang L, Wie B, Li Y, Li H, Zhang F, Rosenberg M, Yang L, Huang J, Wang W, Krafft T. (2014) A Study of Air Pollutants Influencing Life Expectancy and Longevity from Spatial Perspective in China. Science of the Total Environment 487: 57-64
Wang W, Krafft T, Rosenberg M, Pilot E (eds). Health and Environmental Change in Urban Areas. China Environment Press, Beijing 2014
More publications: Researchgate
Prof. Paula Santana (Portugal)
Affiliation: Department of Geography and Tourism and Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT),
University of Coimbra
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Geographer. Full Professor in the Department of Geography and Tourism, University of Coimbra. Coordinator of the area of Urbanization, Health and Sustainability at the Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning. Coordinator of the EU funded project EURO-HEALTHY - Shaping EUROpean policies to promote HEALTH equitY (EU Horizon 2020 R&I under Grant Agreement No 643398). During the last twenty years she coordinated many national scientific projects and represented Portugal in several international projects (e.g. DEMETRIQ, INEQ-Cities, EURO-GBD-SE, EUROTHINE).
She researches, publishes and teaches in the fields of geography of health, healthy urban planning and inequalities in health.
She was an external collaborator with the Social and Public Health Science Unit at MRC-Glasgow (2004-2013) and a member of the poll of reviewers of the European Science Foundation (2001-2007). Between 2009 and 2012 she was Vice-President of the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Coordination and Regional Development Agency.
Selected Publications:
2016: Hu, Y; van Lenthe, F; Borsboom, G; Looman, C; Bopp, M; Burström, B; Dzúrová, D; Ekholm, O; Klumbiene, J; Lahelma, E; Leinsalu, M; Regidor, E; Santana, P; Gelder, R; Mackenbach, J, “Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 17 European countries between 1990 and 2010”, J Epidemiol Community Health, 70(7), p.644-652.
2016: Almendra, R.; Santana, P.; Vasconcelos, J.; Silva, G.; Gonçalves, F., Ambrizzi, T., “The influence of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation index on hospital admissions through diseases of the circulatory system in Lisbon, Portugal”. International Journal of Biometeorology, p.1-9.
2015: Santana, P.; Costa, C.; Marí-Dell’olmo, M.; Gotsens, M.; Borrell, C., “Mortality, material deprivation and urbanization: exploring the social patterns of a metropolitan area”. International Journal for Equity in Health, 14(55), p.1-13.
2015: Santana, P.; Costa, C.; Cardoso, G.; Loureiro, A.; Ferrão, J., “Suicide in Portugal: Spatial Determinants in a context of Economic Crisis”. Health & Place, 35, p.85-94.
2009: Santana, P.; Santos, R. & Nogueira, H., “The link between local environment and obesity: a multilevel analysis in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal". Social Science and Medicine, 68(4), p. 601-609.
More publications: Researchgate
Affiliation: Department of Geography and Tourism and Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT),
University of Coimbra
Contact: [email protected]
Personal Profile:
Geographer. Full Professor in the Department of Geography and Tourism, University of Coimbra. Coordinator of the area of Urbanization, Health and Sustainability at the Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning. Coordinator of the EU funded project EURO-HEALTHY - Shaping EUROpean policies to promote HEALTH equitY (EU Horizon 2020 R&I under Grant Agreement No 643398). During the last twenty years she coordinated many national scientific projects and represented Portugal in several international projects (e.g. DEMETRIQ, INEQ-Cities, EURO-GBD-SE, EUROTHINE).
She researches, publishes and teaches in the fields of geography of health, healthy urban planning and inequalities in health.
She was an external collaborator with the Social and Public Health Science Unit at MRC-Glasgow (2004-2013) and a member of the poll of reviewers of the European Science Foundation (2001-2007). Between 2009 and 2012 she was Vice-President of the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Coordination and Regional Development Agency.
Selected Publications:
2016: Hu, Y; van Lenthe, F; Borsboom, G; Looman, C; Bopp, M; Burström, B; Dzúrová, D; Ekholm, O; Klumbiene, J; Lahelma, E; Leinsalu, M; Regidor, E; Santana, P; Gelder, R; Mackenbach, J, “Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 17 European countries between 1990 and 2010”, J Epidemiol Community Health, 70(7), p.644-652.
2016: Almendra, R.; Santana, P.; Vasconcelos, J.; Silva, G.; Gonçalves, F., Ambrizzi, T., “The influence of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation index on hospital admissions through diseases of the circulatory system in Lisbon, Portugal”. International Journal of Biometeorology, p.1-9.
2015: Santana, P.; Costa, C.; Marí-Dell’olmo, M.; Gotsens, M.; Borrell, C., “Mortality, material deprivation and urbanization: exploring the social patterns of a metropolitan area”. International Journal for Equity in Health, 14(55), p.1-13.
2015: Santana, P.; Costa, C.; Cardoso, G.; Loureiro, A.; Ferrão, J., “Suicide in Portugal: Spatial Determinants in a context of Economic Crisis”. Health & Place, 35, p.85-94.
2009: Santana, P.; Santos, R. & Nogueira, H., “The link between local environment and obesity: a multilevel analysis in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal". Social Science and Medicine, 68(4), p. 601-609.
More publications: Researchgate