GIS and Health
Presentations
Cholera in 1850s London: John Snow, His Contemporaries, and the Broad Street Map Revisited. 17th Annual Maps and Society lectures. Warburg Institute, University of London. 8 May 2008.
Cholera mapping from 1819-1854: Before John Snow and the Broad Street outbreak. Cambridge Seminars in the history of cartography, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. 6 May 2008.
Session chairperson: Historical cartography. American Association of Geographers. Annual meeting. Paper: That Damn Broad Street Map. April 18 2008.
Discussant. Science and cartography papers. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston. April 13, 2008.
The Statistics in the Map: Rewriting John Snow's South study. University of British Columbia, Dept. Biostatistics. 31 Jan. 2008.
Distinguished lecturer in Medicine, “Mapping Science Making Medicine: Maps as tools of disease studies.Texas A&M University. College Park, TX. 15-18 November 2007.
Hayes lecturer in Geography. “John Snow and his contemporaries, the Broad Street experience. Texas A&M University, Department of Geography. College Park, TX. 17 November 2007.
Plenary lecture, Cartographies of Cancer: The history of cancer in its mapping. Conference on GIS and Public Health sponsored by the CDC and Texas A&M University. College Park, TX. 18 Nov. 2007.
Cartographies of Disease: Climates of Concern. Chicago Humanities Festival, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. 4 Nov. 2007.
Mapping in a Time of Cholera: John Snow and his contemporaries. Center for Health Excellence and Outcomes Research (CHEOS). St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC. 26 Sept. 2007.
Maps, mapping, and medicine: The history and the present. ESRI Canada TechTreck week. Barrie, ON. 25 Aug. 2006.
The Meaning in the Map: Examples from Medical Cartography, Keynote, Geo-Tec conference keynote, Ottawa, ON. 21 June 2006.
Cartographies of Disease: Public Safety, Pubic Health. URISABC. Burnaby BC. 5 June 2006.
Cartographies of Disease: Epidemics in Cities. University of Hawaii Dept. of Geography Colloquium. Honolulu, HI. 9 Feb. 2006
Medical Mapping: Here and there, this and that. The logic of the map. ESRI Health Users Group Meetings. Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Oct. 2005.
300 years of medical mapping. National Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) annual meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah. Oct. 2005.
Mapping Medicine: John Snow and the Broad Street battle.
B.C. Historical Map Society, Vancouver, B.C. 7 March 2005.
Health, place, and air: Mapping the miasma of illness. In, The spatial analysis and discourse of disease. Am. Assoc. of Geography Ann. Meeting. 6 Denver.
(with Ken Denike) GIS: Spatial Analyst and the problem of cholera. . . A simple teaching example. Annual meeting: Am. Assoc. of Geographers, NYC. 12-14 March, 2001.
(With Ken Denike) Geography, the problem of scale, and processes of allocation: The US National Organ Transplant Act. Conference on Law and Geography, University College, London, UK, July 2-3, 2001.
(with Ken Denike) Mapping Justice: The problem of scale in the distribution of human organs. Annual meeting of the Am. Assoc. of Geographers, New York City. Feb. 2001