Health and Medical Geography | A Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers
Adam Cox
Description: Neighborhoods are complex systems with spatial signals that help decode their stories. We integrate innovative GIScience, public health, and statistical approaches to explore, understand, and promote healthy places. Research Program Themes 1. Defining how place impacts & interacts with health We focus on complexity surrounding the measurement, mapping, and distillation of multiple health outcomes and associated…
Home Team Publications Resources Contact Us Neighborhoods are complex systems with spatial signals that help decode their stories. We integrate innovative GIScience, public health, and statistical approaches to explore, understand, and promote healthy places. Research Projects The US. Covid Atlas
Since early 2020, we’ve made spatial statistics accessible in the web browser, encouraging users to explore the pandemic from its start to today. In the latest push, we’re humanizing the data with oral histories from across the country. We also explore how regional social determinants of health impact COVID.
Place and Social-Spatial Networks We have multiple projects exploring how neighborhood connections between people can be better understood to prioritize places, individuals, or groups for life-saving and harm-reducing health interventions.
Health and Medical Geography | A Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers
Adam Cox