Protecting privacy and confidentiality of geographic data in health research, URISA GIS in Public Health Conference, Providence, June 2009 (co-organized with Ellen Cromley)
Protecting privacy and confidentiality of geographic data in health research, URISA GIS in Public Health Conference, Providence, June 2009 (co-organized with Ellen Cromley)
Introduction to geographic information systems for eliminating health disparities CDC & ATSDR 11th Biennial Symposium on Statistical MethodsAtlanta, April 2007
Invited and Keynote Presentations
Eliminating Disparities in Health Using a GIS: Quantitative and Qualitative Solutions, Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration faculty seminar, January 2011.
Geography, GIS and Health vulnerability in Los Angeles: Case studies of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Diabetes California State University at Long Beach Department of Geography Colloquium, April 2011
Using geospatial approaches to identify neighborhood scale health disparities Maternal, Child & Adolescent Center for Infectious Disease and Virology, USC Health Sciences, March 2011
Geographic Data and Confidentiality Issues CaliforniaCancer Registry CR Scientific Conference Sacramento May, 2010
Working Group 2 short presentation – Technology to Increase Societal and Infrastructure Resiliency when Exposed to Major Natural Hazards US-Taiwan Workshop on the Advancement of Societal Responses to Mega-Disasters Afflicting Mega-Cities Taipei, Taiwan, May 2010
Mapping Racial Disparities in Health from Katrina to Southern California American Studies and Ethnicity Colloquium, University of Southern California, March 2010.
GIS, Geospatial Technologies and Health: Updating John Snow (with J. Mills) university lecture series, Ohio Northern University, January 2010.
Hurricane Katrina, GIS, Geospatial Technologies and Spatial Analysis -- implications for Public Health Research Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Pasadena, CA September 2009
Combining geospatial technology and community collaboration to reduce disparities in health, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Workshop, University of Southern California, June 2009
Geographic approaches to reducing health disparities: learning from Katrina Cities and Climate Change Conference, University of Southern California, April 2009
Health vulnerability and disasters California State University at Fullerton Department of Geography Brown Bag seminar, October 2008
Mapping Katrina Sustainable Dialogues III International Symposium, Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, June 2008.
GIS and public health: clusters, confidentiality and Katrina Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center seminar series, Health Sciences Campus University of Southern California, June 2008.
Using GIS to reveal spatial patterns in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic of New Orleans Biennial GIS Symposium: Sustaining the Future & Understanding the Past, Case Western Reserve University April 2008.
Community-based evaluation and intervention strategies to eliminate the black infant mortality crisisThe Pasadena Birthing Project and the USC Center for Premature Infant Health and Developmentpublic forumDecember Pasadena, California, December 2007.
Geospatial Technology for response and recovery in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: bridging government and community applications in a disaster presentation (with J Mills) California Post-Earthquake Clearinghouse group Los Alamitos, California, October 2007.
Public data, public access, privacy and security: us law and policy (with Mary Tsui)special session at URISA's GIS in Public Health Conference, New Orleans, May 2007.
GIS & Katrina ACE Social and Economic Stability, Louisiana State University and Southern University AgCenter Annual Conference, Baton Rouge,December 2006.
Vulnerable populations, community GIS and confidentiality – the US perspective GIS and Health Symposium, National Center for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) June 2006.
Public health & disasters: preserving spatial confidentiality Protection, Privacy and Public GIS, Geomatics Atlantic Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2006.
Medical geography: Using GIS for analysis of public health concerns Geographic Information Systems: The technical, legal and ethical implications of the integration of Information systems for animal and human health symposiumConsortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, Center for Animal Health and Food Safety and the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, May 2006.
After Katrina: Using a geographic information system to respond and recover Biology Research Seminar Series, Loyola University, March 2006.
GIS and Emergency Management GIS in practice Symposium, National Center for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) January 2006. See http://ncg.nuim.ie/ncg/events/20060125/
The LSU GIS response to Hurricane Katrina Department of Geography, Government and HistoryColloquiumMorehead State University, November 2005.
Chagas Disease in Mexico: using the WebMapper Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Parasitology at Lenap, Guatemala, August 2005.
Curtis, A., Leitner, M. and F. Jones. Using GIS to eliminate disparities in African American infant mortality, Congressional Breakfast, UCGIS Winter Meeting,Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton & Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Sponsors Hart Senate Office Building, February 2005.
The 1878 yellow fever epidemic Department of Tropical MedicineColloquium, Tulane University, October2004
Using GIS to reduce infant mortality in Baton Rouge Department of Geography and Anthropology Applied Geography Conference, Louisiana State University, March 2001.
Improving rabies surveillance data using a GIS and a spatial filter Department of Biology Colloquium, Morehead State University, January 1999.
A spatial approach to filling in the gaps in reportable disease data: the case of rabies in Kentucky Department of Geography and Anthropology Colloquium, Louisiana State University, November 1997.
Disease implications of El Nino Department of Geography, Government and History Colloquium, Morehead State University, October 1997.
An information system for Histoplasmosis identification in Kentucky, gathering of state agencies, Frankfort May 1997.
Locational variations in macro scale knowledge (clusters, hierarchies, and hockey teams) Department of Geography Colloquium, State University of New York at Buffalo, August 1994.
Papers Presented
A fine scale multi-time period methodological framework to compare crimes with building characteristics in post-Katrina New Orleans National Institute of JusticeCrime Mapping Research Conference, Miami, October 2011.
Health vulnerability and Hazard Assessment International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management “Reframing disasters and reflecting on risk governance deficits” USC, Los Angeles 2011
Crime in post-Katrina New Orleans: challenges and solutions to a constantly changing geography Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 2010
Chronic disease as an evacuation impediment: Using a Geographic Information System and 911 call data after Katrina to determine neighborhood scale health vulnerability National Evacuation Conference, New Orleans, February 2010.
Community mapping: new methods of data collection & confidentiality consideration (J. Mills co-author) Innovations in Community Mapping: an Interactive Workshop, UC Davis, January 2010
The relationship between crime and the built environment in post-Katrina New Orleans National Institute of JusticeCrime Mapping Research Conference, New Orleans, August 2009.
Preserving spatial confidentiality, protecting privacy and confidentiality of geographic data in health research URISA GISinPublicHealth Conference, Providence, June 2009
The relationship between crime and the built environment in post-Katrina New Orleans National Institutes Justice Conference, Arlington, July 2008.
Spatial confidentiality and GIS: re-engineering mortality locations from published maps about Hurricane Katrina (J. Mills & M Leitner co-author) URISA's GIS in Public Health Conference, New Orleans, May 2007.
A GIS analysis of the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1878 URISA's GIS in Public Health Conference, New Orleans, May 2007.Katrina and vulnerability: the geography of stress, in the session: Response, Recovery, and Geography: LSU Geographers Confront the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Rita Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
From Healthy Start to Hurricane Katrina: six years of using GIS to eliminate disparities in perinatal health, CDC & ATSDR 11th Biennial Symposium on Statistical Methods, Atlanta, April 2007.
Using GIS to identify the spatial origins of epidemic in New Orleans Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March 2004.
A real time GIS in a Healthy Start initiative Louisiana State Wide Maternal Child Health Bureau Meeting, New Orleans, December 2003.
Reconstructing the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1878: spatially analyzing and visualizing disease spread with a GIS (J. Anderson co-author) North American Cartographic Information Society, Jacksonville, October 2003.
Incorporating a geographic information system into a Healthy Start initiative Healthy Start Grantee Meeting, Washington DC, September 2003.
Animating and spatially analyzing the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1878 (J. Anderson co-author) American Studies Association Meeting, Houston, November 2002.
Infant mortality in Baton Rouge, combining spatial filter and geographically weighted regression Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles 2002.
Using GIS to reduce infant mortality in Baton Rouge, combining spatial analysis and community outreach Association of American Geographers, NYC 2001. Special session organized by C. Croner from the CDC and including G. Rushton, S & G. Thrall, A. Getis, P. Rogerson.
Identifying data “holes” in a surveillance surface : comparisons using cartographic visualization, a spatial filter in a GIS, and a local spatial autocorrelation measure Second International Health Geographics Conference, Washington DC, March 2000.
Temporal variations in rabies surveillance in Kentucky and Tennessee Applied Geography Conference, Charlotte, 1999.
Using a proximity filter to improve rabies surveillance data Geographic Information Systems in Public Health, 3rd National Conference, San Diego, 1998.
Using a proximity filter to improve rabies surveillance data Applied Geography Conference, Louisville, 1998.
The spatial and seasonal distribution of rabies in Kentucky Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, 1997.
The stability of recall data in investigations into spatial knowledge Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, 1996.
A GIS to identify clusters in geographic spatial knowledge recalls Association of American Geographers, Chicago, 1995.
Spatial knowledge cluster formation and the relationship with hierarchical processing of spatial information Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, 1994.
The identification of clusters within spatial hierarchies Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, 1993.
Location specific variations in the encoding of spatial knowledge Association of American Geographers, Mid-States Meeting, Syracuse University, 1992
An investigation into the hierarchical processing of spatial information Association of American Geographers, Mid-States Meeting, Penn State University, 1991.
Sessions Organized at Professional Meetings
Social vulnerability: A multifaceted and interdisciplinary concept – Definitions, needs and recent examples of geospatial applications (co-organized with Christoph Aubrecht) 2nd Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management “Reframing disasters and reflecting on risk governance deficits” USC, Los Angeles 2011
Variations in the perceptions of geographic / environmental space Association of American Geographers, Chicago, 1995.
Spatial choice: modeling, spatial cognition and information hierarchies Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, 1994.
