Name: International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS) 2024
Start: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-19T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Georgia State University College of Law

A geographic ecological momentary assessment of how park engagement affects wellbeing and sleep quality (in session "Paper Presentations")

A geographically-explicit ecological momentary assessment approach (GEMA) on the association between mental wellbeing and micro urban spaces along daily mobility path. (in session "Paper Presentations")

A Nature Based Social Prescribing Evaluation Framework (NaBSPEP) applying the One Health perspective (in session "Paper Presentations")

A qualitative approach of the environmental determinants of stress and their situational factors: The FragMent project (in session "Paper Presentations")

Access and disparities in public healthcare in Bangladesh: A case study of Chittagong Hill Tracts (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Accounting for the prevalence of chronic conditions in an agent-based model for COVID-19 hospitalizations (in session "Paper Presentations")

An image tells more than a thousand words: Mapping place perception through strhrougeet view images, crowdsourced stated preferences and artificial intelligence (in session "Poster Presentations")

Analysing antidepressant prescribing patterns in primary care (in session "Paper Presentations")

ANALYSIS OF USE PATTERNS & GEO- ACCESS TO HEALTH FACILITIES: A CASE OF URBAN RURAL COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA (in session "Paper Presentations")

Analyzing the Texas Prescription Monitoring Program for High-Risk Opioid Use: Doctor Hopping as an Early Warning Indicator (in session "Student Poster Competition")

Applying a Trauma-Informed Spaces of Care Model for Programming Solutions for Homeless Substance Users (in session "Paper Presentations")

Assessing Geographic Provider Access by Therapist Type for Children with Autism in Missouri (in session "Paper Presentations")

Assessing Spatial Patterns of Dengue Incidence in Nepal for 2022 And 2023: A Local Indicator of Spatial Association (LISA) Approach (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Assessing the potential for improved response to antimicrobial resistance in outpatient Staphylococcus aureus isolates using seasonal and spatial antibiograms (in session "Paper Presentations")

Assessing the Role of Small Food Retail in Alleviating Food Deserts (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Automating Hazard-Specific Ontology Construction: Methodological Advancements Using Ontology Learning Techniques (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Being designated an age-friendly city: What does it mean for the health and well-being of older people? (in session "Paper Presentations")

Beyond Smoking: A Geospatial Investigation of Factors Associated with Lung and Bronchus Cancer Risk in Pennsylvania (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Biomass and Stable Carbon Isotope distributions in the Amazon Plume Region (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Building Carer-friendly Workplaces in Canada: Examining the Uptake of Standardized Tools (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Building ecological niche models of Bacillus anthracis with constrained diversity index-defined phylogenies and bespoke environmental covariates across spatial scales (in session "Paper Presentations")

Buses Depart GSU to Tallulah Falls (in session "Conference Event")

Buses Depart to GSU (in session "Conference Event")

Buses Depart to Helen, GA (in session "Conference Event")

Buses Depart to Limoges Cellars, GA (in session "Conference Event")

Capturing the neighbourhood experience for hidden voices: Approaches and challenges. (in session "Featured Session")

Caring for Older People Living with HIV/AIDS in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living in British Columbia, Canada’s Fraser Health Region (in session "Paper Presentations")

Case study approaches to spatial data analysis: strategies for non-replicable health research (in session "Paper Presentations")

Change in the number of new takeaway food outlets associated with adoption of management zones around schools: a natural experimental evaluation in England (in session "Paper Presentations")

Characterization of a swine interstate movement network in Ohio using dashboard (in session "Student Paper Competition")

ChiVes: Integrating Chicago Environmental Justice Data, Researchers, and Communities with Decentralized Web Architecture, Open GIS, and Participatory Design (in session "Paper Presentations")

Climate and container breeding mosquitoes: a perfect storm in a changing world (in session "Paper Presentations")

Climate crisis adaptivity and mitigation potential in urban primary healthcare in Ghana and Germany (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Combining map-based questionnaire, GEMA, and vocal biomarkers to investigate the environmental determinants of stress: The FragMent study protocol and pilot (in session "Paper Presentations")

Community-Soil-Air-Water: Building a learning ecosystem with community partners to advance environmental justice in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (in session "Featured Session")

Conceptual framework to uplift climate resilience health systems among communities (in session "Student Poster Competition")

Conference Dinner: Ticketed Event: Azotea Cantina (in session "Conference Event")

Connection to nature (CTN) and health and sustainability behaviours (in session "Paper Presentations")

COVID-19, place-based vulnerabilities, and maternal and infant health in Michigan (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Creating a learning health system to include environmental determinants of health: The GroundsWell experience (in session "Paper Presentations")

Creative research methods for approaching the role of space and time in health geography (in session "Panel Discussion")

Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial disparities in epigenetic aging (in session "Paper Presentations")

Daily Mobility And Environmental Determinants Of Stress In Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) And GPS Studies : A Scoping Review (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Delving into Reproductive Health Challenges: A Qualitative Inquiry among Rural Meo-Muslim Women in Ujina Village, Haryana (in session "Paper Presentations")

Differentials and Determinants of Full Antenatal Care Utilization among Scheduled Caste Mothers in India: Evidence from NFHS-5 (2019-21) (in session "Paper Presentations")

Disparities in canine rabies burden: An analysis of high-resolution spatial data from Arequipa, Peru (in session "Poster Presentations")

Disruption & The Impact on Rural Mental Health (in session "Paper Presentations")

Distance to Care: Measuring Temporal Variability in Care Access (in session "Paper Presentations")

Early adulthood socioeconomic trajectories contribute to inequalities in adult diet quality, independent of household and neighbourhood socioeconomic position (in session "Paper Presentations")

Eating for health and the planet: Shifting discourses of sustainable healthy diets (in session "Paper Presentations")

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Emergency Calls in Rhode Island (in session "Paper Presentations")

Environmental behaviours and concerns, experience of climate change events, and wellbeing outcomes: a socio-spatial analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Environmental Justice & Green Space Access: Disability & Socio-Spatial Inequities (in session "Paper Presentations")

Estimating block level malaria fever risk zones of West Bengal in India using space-time conditional autoregressive model (in session "Paper Presentations")

Estimating health service utilization potential using the Supply-Concentric Demand-Accumulation (SCDA) spatial accessibility Index (in session "Paper Presentations")

Estimating the Spatiotemporally Heterogeneous Impact of Population and Environmental Factors on Malaria Vaccine Efficacy in Sub-Saharan Africa (in session "Paper Presentations")

Ethnic Enclaves and Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis: A Residential History Analysis of New Jersey Hispanics (in session "Paper Presentations")

Evaluating Small Area Differential Privacy Life Expectancy (in session "Paper Presentations")

Evaluation of the co-influence of heat index, social vulnerability index, and neighborhood factors on crime rate - a case study of Baltimore City (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Examining Spatial Disparity of Primary Healthcare Service in South Korea: A Spatial-Temporal Discrepancy Approach (in session "Paper Presentations")

Examining the Contribution of the Neighborhood Built Environment to the Relationship Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Early Childhood Development in 205,000 Australian Children (in session "Paper Presentations")

Exploring Early-life Climate Anomalies and Acute Respiratory Infections in Children Across Sub-Saharan Africa - A Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Perspective (in session "Paper Presentations")

Exploring economic and psycho-social impacts of public health emergency measures in Guinea. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Exploring if and how equity and inclusion are considered in neighbourhood revitalization projects: A case study of downtown Sherbrooke, Canada (in session "Paper Presentations")

Exploring Racial and Ethnic Diversity Trajectories and Diabetes Prevalence in the U.S. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Exploring space and practices of control in long-term residential care violence prevention strategies (in session "Paper Presentations")

Exploring the relationships between housing and food for Latinx newcomers in Toronto (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Exploring the role of land cover on fowl cholera outbreaks in midwestern commercial poultry sites (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Factors related to being a “transmitter” or a “transmittee”: a spatial Bayesian modeling analysis of M. tuberculosis whole genome sequence data (in session "Paper Presentations")

Food Insecurity Risk and Adverse Health Outcomes- a GWR approach to identify policy interventions. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Gender-based violence in WASH: A threat to global health security (in session "Paper Presentations")

Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: Insights from retired athletes in the UK high-performance context (in session "Paper Presentations")

Gentrification, mental health, and well-being: a scoping review to document associations and pathways (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Geographic assessment of prevalence of modern contraceptive use among women of reproductive age in Uganda: Evidence from UDHS 2016 (in session "Paper Presentations")

Geographic Disparities in Pediatric Care: Analyzing Accessibility in Seoul, South Korea (in session "Paper Presentations")

Geographical distribution of mailed survey responses about flood risk perception (in session "Poster Presentations")

Geospatial analysis and data accessibility in medical geography: opportunities and challenges (in session "Paper Presentations")

Geospatial indicators for urban planning – lessons from around the world (in session "Panel Discussion")

Geospatial Modeling for Watersheds Delineation: An Approach for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Monitoring and Assessment in Alabama Surface Waters (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Global positioning system-based food environment exposures, diet-related, and cardiometabolic health outcomes: a systematic review and research agenda (in session "Poster Presentations")

Health care gentrification and equity: results from a scoping review (in session "Paper Presentations")

Health Consequences of Rural-Urban Migration on Older Adults Living in Rural China (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Health-based drinking water violations: A human body organ systems approach to understanding health impacts (in session "Paper Presentations")

History and innovation in disease ecology in health and medical geography (in session "Featured Session")

How is grocery shopping completed in household with children? Gender gaps and typologies of grocery shopping in four Canadian metropolises (in session "Paper Presentations")

How to simulate infectious disease spreading in a high-dense city: a 3D agent-based model for 2022 Hong Kong COVID-19 Omicron wave (in session "Paper Presentations")

Identifying sources of new HIV diagnoses in southern Uganda (in session "Paper Presentations")

Identifying Transmission Dynamics and Infection Hotspots of Clostridioides difficile Infection in a Community-Based Hospital (in session "Student Poster Competition")

Impact of Climate Change on Vector Species Suitability in Arkansas (in session "Poster Presentations")

Impact of residential mobility on associations between historical redlining, gentrification, and life expectancy at birth in Philadelphia metropolitan area (in session "Paper Presentations")

Impacts of covid-19 induced income changes on mental and psychosocial health in Guinea. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Impacts of Medicaid privatization on prenatal care utilization in Iowa (in session "Paper Presentations")

Incorporating Queueing Theory into a Spatial Optimization Framework to Improve Mass Vaccination Programs (in session "Poster Presentations")

Infant Mortality and the Geography of Hospital Levels of Care in Michigan (in session "Paper Presentations")

Inland flooding – mapping emergency department diagnoses with social vulnerability and flood risk to identify targeted educational outreach (in session "Poster Presentations")

Insights into compound ground-level ozone and temperature events relevant for human health (in session "Paper Presentations")

Integrating human activity into food environments can better predict cardiometabolic diseases in the United States (in session "Paper Presentations")

Inter-continental analysis on accessibility to vaccination service during COVID-19 pandemic (in session "Paper Presentations")

Intersecting inequities in health and disease management: the experiences of racialized immigrants in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic (in session "Paper Presentations")

Intimate partner violence during the covid-19 pandemic: Analysis of the role of change in income (in session "Paper Presentations")

Investigating the associations between vacant homes and firearm-related crimes in Baltimore City (in session "Student Poster Competition")

Investigating the relationship between drug use practices and mobility patterns among people who inject drugs in urban environments (in session "Paper Presentations")

Is my neighborhood healthy? Comparison of community stakeholders’ perception using qualitative GIS (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Is the availability and quality of local early childhood education and care services associated with young children’s mental health at school entry? (in session "Paper Presentations")

Jackson water crisis and its relationship to health inequities against black communities (in session "Paper Presentations")

Knowledge to equity action through integrated knowledge translation: A case study of childhood violence (in session "Paper Presentations")

Knowledge translation for equity action in health geography (in session "Panel Discussion")

Labour Will Progress Where Māmā Feel Safe: Constructing primary birthing centres as sites of care for low-risk women (in session "Paper Presentations")

Leveraging Communities of Practice: Insights from the SDOH & Place Project Community Toolkit (in session "Paper Presentations")

Life Course ‘Cognability’: Examining Neighborhoods, Health Behaviors, and Health Disparities (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Liver fluke infection risk in Thailand – a social ecological model perspective (in session "Paper Presentations")

Lunch in Helen, GA (in session "Conference Event")

Lung Cancer Risk and Its Potential Association with PM2.5 in Bagmati Province, Nepal - A Spatiotemporal Study From 2012 to 2021 (in session "Paper Presentations")

Making Health Visible: Social Science, the Development of Census Tracts, and the Bounding of Urban Space (in session "Paper Presentations")

Malaria Transmission Scenarios in the Brazilian Amazon (in session "Paper Presentations")

Mapping Inequalities: A Geospatial Study of Opioid Treatment Disparities in Florida (in session "Paper Presentations")

Mapping risk of gastrointestinal diseases through association of storm events (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Mapping Spatial Accessibility to Screening Mammography in Iowa, 2016 - 2022 (in session "Student Poster Competition")

Maternal Health Accessibility in Dallas and Austin, 2010-2020 (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Measuring Greenspace Access: Best & Current Practices for Healthy Places (in session "Paper Presentations")

Mobility, ICT, and health: a built environment investigation of older Chinese migrants' social isolation and loneliness (in session "Paper Presentations")

Modeling anthrax outbreak dynamics under varying levels of vaccine interventions across different provinces in Vietnam (in session "Paper Presentations")

Modeling street level NDVI and traffic simulation to assess spikes in CO, CO2, NOx, HC and fuel use affecting vulnerable populations (in session "Paper Presentations")

Modelling and Improving Public Health Outcomes of Respiratory Ailments in Rural and Resource Scarce areas of South-West Nigeria using Machine Learning (in session "Paper Presentations")

Modelling the Complexities of Built Environment and Health: A Bayesian Network Approach with Expert Knowledge (in session "Paper Presentations")

More than Skin Deep: The Pervasive Nature of Racism as a Social Driver of Health (in session "Featured Session")

Multi-generational Impacts of the Uganda 1972 Expulsion Decree for South Asians; creative strategies for place-making practices and health as resiliency in new geographies (in session "Paper Presentations")

Neighborhood Deprivation and Postpartum Readmission Location and Timing (in session "Paper Presentations")

Online vs. In-Store: How food outlet type is linked to dietary hehaviours in Great Britain (in session "Paper Presentations")

Optimal Spatial Access Measurement for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Toward Medication Success and Social Justice (in session "Paper Presentations")

Phylogeographic patterns of Escherichia coli isolated from white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, during necropsy in farmed deer surveillance program (in session "Paper Presentations")

Plastic (Ger)ontologies: Measuring Aging, Health, Bodies, and Environments on the Epigenetic Clock (in session "Paper Presentations")

Population health in coastal communities in England (in session "Paper Presentations")

Potential and Revealed Accessibility to Cancer Care in the United States and The Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (in session "Paper Presentations")

Practice and Policy: Perspectives in Health Geography Panel Abstract (in session "Panel Discussion")

Predictors to Intensive Care Unit Admission Among Patient With Coronavirus Disease in Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Nepal: A Case-Control Study (in session "Paper Presentations")

Prenatal exposure to green space and mental health in early adolescence: Findings from the TRAILS study (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Prevalence and determinants of Low Dietary Diversity (LDD) among men in India: Evidence from a nationally representative survey. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Proximity to Parks and Prevalence of Depression among Adults across North Carolina Census Tracts: An Ecological Study (in session "Poster Presentations")

Putting the exposome into practice: political claims and spatial limitations of the European Human Exposome Network (in session "Paper Presentations")

Quantifying livestock commingling in mapped areas of sustained Brucella spp. transmission in Kazakhstan (in session "Poster Presentations")

Rapidly Developing a Community and Evidence Based Heat Action Plan (in session "Paper Presentations")

Reflecting on 40 Years of IMGS (in session "Featured Session")

Residential segregation of Latinx residents in California is associated with worse brain health measured via brain imaging (in session "Paper Presentations")

Resilience Amidst Multiple Crises: Lessons from "Saving Little Lives" Project During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Siege and War in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia (in session "Paper Presentations")

Results of community pilot for connecting people experiencing cancer with social needs (in session "Paper Presentations")

Retailer Responses to Public Consultations on the Adoption of Takeaway Management Zones Around Schools: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis (in session "Paper Presentations")

Seasonal Impact of Greenspace on Child Opportunity: An Analysis of NDVI and the Child Opportunity Index Across US Census Tracts (in session "Poster Presentations")

Sleep problems mediate the association between mental health and outdoor light pollution (in session "Paper Presentations")

Smart cities and disability (in session "Paper Presentations")

Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN) for Equitable and Inclusive Post-pandemic Futures: A framework for resilience planning with community (in session "Paper Presentations")

Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN): Identification of Chronic Stressors and Resilience Planning Using Participatory Mapping in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (in session "Student Poster Competition")

Spatial analysis informs surveillance and control strategies of human and livestock anthrax in Lai Chau Province, Vietnam (in session "Paper Presentations")

Spatial analysis of the charitable food system in Georgia (in session "Paper Presentations")

Spatio-temporal distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in Escherichia coli in the US, 2000-2023. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Spatiotemporal trends and environmental correlates of Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus abundance in Haiti (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Strengthening water and health security in Europe’s marginalized communities through citizen science and integrated social, geographical, medical and technological approaches (in session "Paper Presentations")

STUDY ON ABUSE AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG ELDERLY POPULATION OF KAMALAMAI MUNICIPALITY OF SINDHULI DISTRICT (in session "Poster Presentations")

Sustaining a livelihood heritage: Climate challenges to Mexican fishing communities’ health, well-being, and identity. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Synergies of participatory GIS and health geography: A scoping review (in session "Paper Presentations")

Tallulah Falls (in session "Conference Event")

The contribution of comparative genomics to health geography research: a case study on the identification of M. ulcerans contamination sites in Benin (in session "Paper Presentations")

The dynamic interactions between urban communities during the pandemic (in session "Paper Presentations")

The effect of the digital environment on health (in session "Paper Presentations")

The Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of Galamsey (Illegal Small-Scale Gold Mining) on Selected Communities in Ghana (in session "Student Paper Competition")

The impact that natural disasters (floods) in the city of Shkoder had on increasing of Leptospirosis disease around 2010-2011. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

The impacts of social determinants of health on new HIV diagnosis vary over geography and race/ethnicity: a Bayesian multivariate spatial analysis of cities prioritized by EHE (in session "Paper Presentations")

The JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Quilt: Dis’Patches’ from the international scholars (in session "Featured Session")

The periphery of the periphery: civil society organizations navigating inequities in access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in Rio de Janeiro (in session "Student Paper Competition")

The role of cognitive skills on the complexity of walking behaviour and on spatial navigation in urban environment. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Therapeutic landscapes and the functioning-based WHO approach of healthy ageing: Results from the German Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS) (in session "Paper Presentations")

They’re Sacred Fires, not fire pits: A spatial case study on three, traditional healing spaces in Canada’s largest and oldest mental health hospital (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Tick abundance and Borellia prevalence in urban and peri-urban green spaces of Bonn, Germany (in session "Paper Presentations")

Travel time to hospital and patient outcomes: Why do we use the 30-minute rule? (in session "Paper Presentations")

Understanding the socio-spatial distribution of “dark kitchens” in England: developing a unique location dataset (in session "Paper Presentations")

Understanding the use of computer vision for automated extraction of environmental characteristics from street imagery: a systematic scoping review (in session "Paper Presentations")

Unequal Scene and Health Inequality in Rapidly Growing City of Akure: The Nigerian Reality. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Unpacking Hospitalization Patterns among Resettled Refugees: A Data Linkage Study (in session "Paper Presentations")

Unwind with Wine and Music at Limoges Cellars (in session "Conference Event")

Urban blue and green spaces for well-being of disadvantaged population groups (in session "Paper Presentations")

Urban Decline and Health Implications: Applying Syndemic Theory to the Pre- and Post-Pandemic San Francisco Bay Area (in session "Paper Presentations")

Using geographic self-organizing map (Geo-SOM) to examine infectious disease outbreaks: A study of 2022 COVID-19 Omicron Wave in Hong Kong (in session "Paper Presentations")

Using Geographically Weighted Regression to Explore the Relationship between Homicide and Suicide in the United States (in session "Paper Presentations")

Using GIS to Examine the Relationship Between Residential Segregation and Mental Healthcare Accessibility in Omaha, NE. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Visualizing Patterns of Indoor Air Pollutants to Respiratory Health Risk in Rural Yewa Region, Southwest Nigeria (in session "Paper Presentations")

Visualizing racialized discriminatory mortgage loan denial, poor mental health, and their association in the U.S. using the “Housing-Health-Disparities Visualizer” (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Vocal Biomarkers Of Stress In Real Life Environments: Study Design And Insights From The Fragment Project And Colive Voice Study (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Where should we build the next maternal health facilities in Ethiopia? A geospatial approach to emergency obstetric and newborn care facility allocation (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Working in “holidayland” (in session "Paper Presentations")

‘What Do I Ask and Who Do I Ask?’: Exploring the role of evidence-informed advocacy for individuals living with a chronic illness (in session "Paper Presentations")

“Building CapaCITY/É for Sustainable Transportation”: Documenting Implementation Processes and Outcomes in Nine Canadian Cities (in session "Paper Presentations")