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Session Proposal: Recent Advances in GeoHealth (AGU25)

GH028
Recent Advances in GeoHealth

Session ID#: 251548

Session Description:
GeoHealth serves as a vital platform for exploring the intricate relationship between the Earth sciences and health. This session will showcase innovative research, methodologies, and applications within GeoHealth that are not represented in other GeoHealth sessions. As our understanding of environmental influences on health deepens, leveraging insights from geosciences becomes essential for addressing pressing public health challenges and promoting well-being on a global scale.
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0245 Vector-borne diseases [GEOHEALTH]
0299 General or miscellaneous [GEOHEALTH]
Primary Convener:  Amanda Hoffman-Hall, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, United States
Conveners:  Moiz Usmani, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Birmingham, AL, United States and Azar Abadi, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, United States
 
Modeling Spatial Variation in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) access in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Using Georeferenced Survey Data (1851762)
Bin Fang1, Vazira Ahmedjonova2, Nasif Hossain3, Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi4, Margaret N Kosek3 and Josh Michael Colston5, (1)University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Arts and Sciences, Charlottesville, United States, (3)University of Virginia, Medicine, Charlottesville, United States, (4)University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States, (5)University of Virginia, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and International Health, Charlottesville, United States
 
Integrated assessment of behavioural and environmental risks for the non-communicable disease burden across urban and rural population subgroups in India (1883045)
Sagnik Dey1, Debajit Sarkar2, Arunangshu Das3, Rohan Anand4, Alok Kumar4 and Fahad Imam4, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India, (2)IIT Dehli, Dehli, India, (3)Indian institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, (4)IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India
 
Stabilization of sulfate-rich expansive soils with biochar impregnated with magnesium oxide(MgO) (1886006)
Gangasri M, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India and Thyagaraj T, Professor, Civil department, Chennai, India
 
A decade of progress and challenges in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) coverage in Bangladesh: insights from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2011-2022 (1886245)
Md. Hasibul Islam Jitu1, Marufa Jahan2 and Syed Shahadat Hossain1, (1)University of Dhaka, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (2)IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands
 
Geospatial Analysis of New Mexico’s Socially Vulnerable: At a Higher Risk for Natech Disasters? (1899167)
Orion Fentress and Amanda Hoffman-Hall, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, United States
 
Empowering the Data Ecosystem to Protect Health from Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters (1916356)
Ann Liu1, David Fargo2, Kyle Philip Messier3, Alison Motsinger-Reif2, David Reif2, Ashlinn K Quinn4, Charles Schmitt2 and Aubrey K. Miller5, (1)National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/Kelly Government Solutions, Bethesda, United States, (2)National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, United States, (3)National Institutes of Health, Predictive Toxiciology Branch, Division of Translational Toxicology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, United States, (4)National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, (5)National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, United States
 
County-Level Geospatial Disparities in Congenital Abnormality Rates for the United States, 2014–2021 (1924115)
Olivia Blanton, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States, Azar Abadi, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, United States and Satwik Acharyya, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Birmingham, United States
 
Machine Learning-Based Assessment of Groundwater Fluoride Contamination and Mobility Across Climatic Zones: A Comparative and Predictive Study (1941535)
Rahul Singh1, Dr. Shubhasish Tripathy1, Ashok Kumar Gupta2, Ankit Dutta1 and Nabarup Ghosh1, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, (2)Environmental Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
 
Research on Outdoor Heat and Dementia Risk: Progress and Best Practice Recommendations (1958873)
Emma Gause1, Zachary Popp2, Sean Mueller2, Allison James2, Keith Spangler3, Carina Gronlund4, TC Chakraborty5, Lucy Hutyra6, Katherine Francois7, Sara Adar7, Kevin Lane2 and Gregory Wellenius2, (1)Boston University School of Public Health, Center for Climate and Health, Boston, United States, (2)Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Boston, United States, (3)Boston University Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Boston, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Richland, WA, United States, (6)Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (7)University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Where is Blastomyces? An environmental modeling approach to understand fungal presence (1965935)
Kimberly A. Kaufeld1, Staci Hepler2, David Kline3, Malia Ireland4, Suzanne Gibbons-Burgener5 and Morgan E. Gorris1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Wake Forest University, Statistical Sciences, Winston-Salem, United States, (3)Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Biostatistics and Data Science, Winston Salem, United States, (4)Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, United States, (5)Wisconsin Department of Health, Madison, United States
 
Human health and wellbeing rely on a resilient and stable Earth system: advancing the synergistic Planetary Health and Planetary Boundaries frameworks (1984142)
Marie Studer1, Samuel Myers1, Oskar Masztalerz2, Samantha Ahdoot3, Sabine Gabrysch2, Joyeeta Gupta4, Andy Haines5, Henrika Kleineberg-Massuthe6, Nathalie Lambrecht7, Phil Landrigan8, Jemilah Mahmood9, Lisa Maria Portner2, Jason Rohr10, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann11, Amanda Wendt2, Britt Wray12 and Johan Rockstrom2, (1)Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health, Baltimore, United States, (2)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (3)University of Virginia School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States, (4)University of Amsterdam, Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (5)London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London, United Kingdom, (6)Institute of Public Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (7)Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (8)Global Observatory on Planetary Health, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, United States, (9)Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, (10)Department of Biological Sciences, Eck Institute of Global Health, Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States, (11)Institute of Environmental Medicine and Integrative Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, (12)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Microbial Diversity in Soils Is the Top Predictor of Global Rates of Childhood Allergic Disease (2002188)
Joshua Ladau1, Sheng-Pei Wang2, Mirko Pavicic Venegas3, Justin P. Shaffer4, Daniel McDonald5, Anna Vlot3, Rob Knight5, Ben Brown1, Matthias Hess6, Daniel A Jacobson7 and Katrina Abuabara8, (1)Arva Intelligence, Houston, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (4)California State University Fresno, Fresno, United States, (5)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (6)University of California Davis, Animal Science, Davis, United States, (7)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (8)University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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