GH24A:
Environment, Health, and Infectious Disease: The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Geohealth I


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Session ID#: 60080

Session Description:
AGU's new section on GeoHealth expands and energizes this critical, emerging, and interdisciplinary area of science with the goal of building productive connections among scientists and decision makers from allied disciplines, including those who are not traditionally members of AGU.

This panel discussion will showcase examples of cutting edge projects and initiatives that are leading the way in working across boundaries - whether disciplinary, organizational, or geographic - that are urgently needed to further understanding of and response to complex issues related to environmental health and infectious diseases.  The panel brings together those innovators "without borders"€ whose contributions represent interdisiplinary approaches from the biological, physical, and social sciences (for example, ecology, entomology and vector control, climate science, geospatial data and mapping, conservation, sustainable development, education, citizen science, public health and policy).

Primary Convener:  Theresa G Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, VA, United States
Conveners:  Peder Nelson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Sara Paull, University of Colorado, School of Public Health, Denver, CO, United States and Russanne Low, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Theresa G Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, VA, United States
Chairs:  Russanne Low, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, United States and Peder Nelson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Russanne Low, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0232 Impacts of climate change: ecosystem health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0245 Vector born diseases [GEOHEALTH]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Open Earth Observation Data For Global Development (451101)
Victoria M Gammino, Washington, United States
Earth Science Data for GeoHealth Informatics: Applications for Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance and Prediction (410451)
Michael C Wimberly, University of Oklahoma, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, United States
Building a More Resilient and Sustainable Barbuda in the Aftermath of Hurricane Irma (422298)
Rebecca A Boger, CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Exploitation of Satellite Data sets for Disease Risk Mapping and Prediction (411446)
Assaf Anyamba, USRA & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt,, United States
The Gulf of Mexico is America’s Sea: The Need for Improved Monitoring of Our Coastline for Public Health, Safety and Well Being (Invited) (357845)
Barbara A Kirkpatrick, Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System, Sarasota, FL, United States, Robert Dudley Currier, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Richard P Stumpf, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, United States, Chris Simoniello, Texas A&M University College Station/GCOOS, Oceanography, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States and Shinichi Kobara, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Making the connection between climate and infectious diseases, from education to early warning (437696)
John M. Balbus, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States
WOMEN IN VECTOR CONTROL: PROPELLING COMMUNITIES TOWARDS ACTION (467538)
Mary Hayden, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Kacey C Ernst, University of Arizona, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tucson, AZ, United States and Erika Austhof, University of Arizona, College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, United States

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