Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) Faculty Seminar (present “Eliminating disparities in health using a GIS) January 2011
US-Taiwan Workshop on the Advancement of Societal Responses to Mega-Disasters Afflicting Mega-Cities Taipei, Taiwan, May 2010 (part of the four person US geography contingent including Richard Church, Susan Cutter & Michael Goodchild).
Moderate Sessionviruses and the Environment URISA GIS in Public Health Conference, Providence, June 2009
Chair Session on geographic dimension of drug treatment and prevention, at the Symposium on Geography and Drug Addiction, Chicago, Funded invitation from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, March 2006
Mapping the displaced families of New Orleans: a research agenda. The Offices of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and the Center for Law & Social Policy, Washington DC, March 2006
AAG Representative (along with Doug Richardson and Nina Lam) presenting the future role of Geography in illegal substance use analysis. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIH, Washington, DC, May 2005
13th Inter-American Meeting at the Ministerial Level on Health and Agriculture PAHO Washington DC, April 2003.
IX Meeting of the Hemispheric Committee for the Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease PANAFTOSA Washington, DC, April 2003.
Second International Workshop on Geography and Medicine, Paris, France. 1999.
GIS and Spatial Analysis, NCGIA Research meeting, San Diego, CA.1992.
Workshop Participation
Environmental Justice Climate Change Workshop, USC PERE Program for Environmental & Regional Equity, October 2008.
Hemispheric Conference on the Eradication of Foot-And-Mouth Disease, Houston, March 2004.
USC Course Continuity in a Crisis August 2011 Using a spatial video and Google Street View to perform damage assessment ($5,000) – autonomous module developed for use in a university closing disaster
Project Connect (County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health) August 2010 GIS analysis of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Los Angeles County 2005 to 2009 ($12,298.23)
USC SURF July 2010 Monitoring recovery in New Orleans after Katrina – organized three undergraduates to successfully apply for this funding source as a research team ($7,500).
USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program 2010—2011 GIS recovery of New Orleans after Katrina ($6,600)
Haynes Foundation 2010-2011 The disproportionate burden of diabetes in East Los Angeles: Using Social Science to identify neighborhood variation ($12,000)
University of Colorado, Natural Hazards Center 2009 Using a Spatial Video Acquisition System for Data Collection in a Post-Disaster Environment: A First Step to Identifying Areas of Health Vulnerability during Recovery ($2,880)
National Cancer InstituteSEER RFP No. N01-PC-85013-20 2008—2010 Evaluating Methods for Preserving Confidentiality During the Release of Records Incorporating address or other GeoData (Co-PI) Myles Cockburn (PI) ($127,993)
USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program2009—2010 GIS recovery of New Orleans after Katrina ($6,000)
USC SURFJuly 2009 Monitoring recovery in New Orleans after Katrina – organized two undergraduates to successfully apply for this funding source as a research team ($4,000)
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)2008—2009 Post-Disaster Data Management (PI $36,000)
USC SURFJune 2008 Monitoring recovery in New Orleans after Katrina – organized three undergraduates to successfully apply for this funding source as a research team ($7,500).
USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2008—2009 Spatial Patterns of Neighborhood Recovery after Katrina in Orleans and St Bernard Parishes (PI $25,000).
National Science Foundation 2008—2009 SGER: Spatial Patterns of Post-Wildfire Neighborhood Recovery NSF 0807462 (PI $51,314).
Louisiana State University Student Technology Fee 2006 Network Servers for Geospatial and Graphics-Intensive Computing (Co-PI $24,000).
Healthy Start in Baton Rouge2005--2006 Pi. Evaluation of: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health (PI. $13,772). US Army Medical & Research Command 2005 -- 2006 Modeling the natural distribution and forecasting disease spread of pathogens with known potential for use as biowarfare agents (Co-PI $1,294,151).
U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation 2005 Ecological and Socio-Economic Factors of Anthrax Foci Activity and Improvement of its Diagnosis and Prophylaxis in Kazakhstan (PI $88,200).