2018 Fall Meeting

10-15 December

The opportunities are profound and yet the obstacles seem overwhelming—huge datasets that span many parts of the globe exists in the health sciences and the earth system sciences, with the potential for vastly improving global public health, yet they exist largely isolated from one another. The new field of GeoHealth is attempting to bridge the divide between the health sciences and the geosciences by building research and communication connections between these fields, demystifying the often disparate ways that these fields develop research infrastructure, sample their “subjects,” store and analyze data, and finally communicate their research findings to the greater public. This tutorial will demystify some of the human health terminology and data structures and discuss several ways that researchers are working across the GeoHealth divide, including utilizing satellite and drone-based platforms to understand and reduce disease transmission, working with communities and citizen scientists to co-discover pollution exposure risks, and utilizing climate change and future climate models to downscale environmental health risk maps for municipal policy-makers.

• GC - Global Environmental Change
• GH - GeoHealth
• PA - Public Affairs
• SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences