Conveners
Featured Session: Welcome to IMGS 2024
- There are no conveners in this block
Featured Session: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Annual Lecture on Health and Environment by Prof. Michael Emch
- Yi-Chen Wang (National University of Singapore)
Featured Session: IMGS Special Panel
- Chetan Tiwari (Georgia State University)
- Debs Ghosh (University of Connecticut)
Featured Session: Contemporary Approaches to Health Geography: Spatial and Environmental Perspectives
- Soumya Mazumdar
Featured Session: IMGS Special Panel
- Debs Ghosh (University of Connecticut)
Featured Session: Meeting of the Geographies and Health and Health Care Study Group of the Canadian Association of Geographers
- Andrea Rishworth (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Featured Session: Awards & Closing Session
- Joseph Oppong (University of North Texas)
- Armin R. Mikler (Georgia State University)
- Chetan Tiwari (Georgia State University)
Featured Session: Lunch
- There are no conveners in this block
Featured Session: Early Career Networking Reception
- Michael Desjardins (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
- Matthew Keeble (University of Antwerp)
This presentation explores the multifaceted factors influencing health disparities, particularly among African Americans. It examines the impact of geography, policy, economic stability, neighborhood conditions, healthcare access, and social drivers on health outcomes. By highlighting historical and structural roots, such as the racial wealth gap and systemic racism, the presentation...
This paper reviews the history of the disease ecology tradition of health and medical geography summarizing the main themes and innovations since the 1950s. It then highlights two empirical examples of innovations including incorporating landscape genetics into the subfield and how ecological approaches are used in intervention research. Disease ecology is grounded in the field of health and...
This panel session will explore the rich history, significant milestones, and future opportunities and challenges within the field of Health and Medical Geography, highlighting the contributions of the International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS) over the past 40 years. This session will provide a unique platform for reflection and forward-thinking discussions.
Join us for an insightful...
The Community-Soil-Air-Water (CSAW) partnership is co-led by the Georgia State University Department of Geosciences and two community-based environmental advocacy organization that focus on environmental justice—ECO-Action and the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (WAWA) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. In collaboration with other community-based organizations and higher education institutions in metro...
Lived Experience research is increasingly being used as a method to overcome blind spots that come from working in a singular discipline or paradigm. More recently Lived Experience is being used as a powerful tool for working with more marginalised groups to rebalance power dynamics and capture ‘hidden’ knowledge of what it is like to be from that community based on their experiences.
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