Geographic Information Systems

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Not too far to walk": the influence of distance on place of delivery in a western Kenya health demographic surveillance system. 
  • A geographic information system analysis of the impact of a statewide acute stroke emergency medical services routing protocol on community hospital bypass. 
  • An Initial Evaluation of the Impact of Pokémon GO on Physical Activity. 
  • Are buffers around home representative of physical activity spaces among adults? 
  • Association between distance to nearest supermarket and provision of fruits and vegetables in English nurseries. 
  • Association of community food environment and obesity among US adults: a geographical information system analysis. 
  • Associations between BMI and home, school and route environmental exposures estimated using GPS and GIS: do we see evidence of selective daily mobility bias in children? 
  • Batch-produced, GIS-informed range maps for birds based on provenanced, crowd-sourced data inform conservation assessments. 
  • Breast Cancer Challenges and Screening in China: Lessons From Current Registry Data and Population Screening Studies. 
  • Building geographic information system capacity in local health departments: lessons from a North Carolina project. 
  • Collecting Mobility Data with GPS Methods to Understand the HIV Environmental Riskscape Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Multi-city Feasibility Study in the Deep South. 
  • Combined ecological momentary assessment and global positioning system tracking to assess smoking behavior: a proof of concept study. 
  • Comparing habitat suitability and connectivity modeling methods for conserving pronghorn migrations. 
  • Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed. 
  • Deriving a GPS Monitoring Time Recommendation for Physical Activity Studies of Adults. 
  • Environmental justice implications of reduced reporting requirements of the Toxics Release Inventory Burden Reduction Rule. 
  • Esophageal eosinophilia is increased in rural areas with low population density: results from a national pathology database. 
  • Evaluation of the positional difference between two common geocoding methods. 
  • Evidence of Levy walk foraging patterns in human hunter-gatherers. 
  • Evidence-based community consultation for traumatic brain injury. 
  • Exploring associations between physical activity and perceived and objective measures of the built environment. 
  • GIS modeling of air toxics releases from TRI-reporting and non-TRI-reporting facilities: impacts for environmental justice. 
  • Geographic Information Systems Mapping of Diabetic Retinopathy in an Ocular Telemedicine Network. 
  • Geographic information system-based screening for TB, HIV, and syphilis (GIS-THIS): a cross-sectional study. 
  • Geolocation of hospitalizations registered on the Brazilian National Health System's Hospital Information System: a solution based on the R Statistical Software. 
  • Geospatial Analysis of Unmet Surgical Need in Uganda: An Analysis of SOSAS Survey Data. 
  • Geospatial analysis of unmet pediatric surgical need in Uganda. 
  • Graph models of habitat mosaics 
  • Ground and Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Time Tradeoffs Assessed with Geographic Information. 
  • Heterogeneity in health seeking behaviour for treatment, prevention and urgent care in four districts in western Kenya. 
  • High road utilizers surveys compared to police data for road traffic crash hotspot localization in Rwanda and Sri Lanka. 
  • Hotspots and causes of motor vehicle crashes in Baltimore, Maryland: A geospatial analysis of five years of police crash and census data. 
  • Identification of novel risk factors for community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection using spatial statistics and geographic information system analyses. 
  • Incorporating a built environment module into an accelerated second-degree community health nursing course. 
  • Increased Rwandan Access to Obstetrician-Gynecologists Through a U.S.-Rwanda Academic Training Partnership. 
  • Increased Social Interactions Reduce the Association Between Constricted Life-Space and Lower Daily Happiness in Older Adults With and Without HIV: A GPS and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. 
  • Individual, social environmental and physical environmental barriers to achieving 10 000 steps per day among older women. 
  • Integrating statistical genetic and geospatial methods brings new power to phylogeography. 
  • Mapping urban pipeline leaks: methane leaks across Boston. 
  • Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements. 
  • Neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood poverty, and the spatial accessibility of supermarkets in metropolitan Detroit. 
  • Participatory mapping in low-resource settings: Three novel methods used to engage Kenyan youth and other community members in community-based HIV prevention research. 
  • Remotely Sensed Data Informs Red List Evaluations and Conservation Priorities in Southeast Asia. 
  • Responses of 6500 households to arsenic mitigation in Araihazar, Bangladesh. 
  • Seasonal patterns in risk factors for Taenia solium transmission: a GPS tracking study of pigs and open human defecation in northern Peru. 
  • Spatial analysis of learning and developmental disorders in upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts using generalized additive models. 
  • Spatial modeling for groundwater arsenic levels in North Carolina. 
  • Systematic social observation of children's neighborhoods using Google Street View: a reliable and cost-effective method. 
  • The NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Data Resource Portal: placing advanced technologies in service to vulnerable communities. 
  • The epidemiology of road traffic injury hotspots in Kigali, Rwanda from police data. 
  • The footprint of old syphilis: using a reverse screening algorithm for syphilis testing in a U.S. Geographic Information Systems-Based Community Outreach Program. 
  • The increasing impact of human immunodeficiency virus infections, sexually transmitted diseases, and viral hepatitis in Durham County, North Carolina: a call for coordinated and integrated services. 
  • The relationship between leisure, walking, and transportation activity with the natural environment. 
  • The spatial distribution of known predictors of autism spectrum disorders impacts geographic variability in prevalence in central North Carolina. 
  • Tracking Changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: Evidence that D614G Increases Infectivity of the COVID-19 Virus. 
  • Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007-2014. 
  • Use of spatial analysis to support environmental health research and practice. 
  • Using geographic information systems to characterize food environments around historically black colleges and universities: Implications for nutrition interventions. 
  • Where Are Adults Active? An Examination of Physical Activity Locations Using GPS in Five US Cities. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Fay, John Patrick, Lecturing Fellow in the Division of Environmental Science and Policy, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Lantos, Paul Michael, Professor of Medicine, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Urban, Dean L., Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • White, Michelle Joette, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics