Andrew J. Curtis
Associate Professor of the Practice of American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. Geography, State University New York Buffalo (Advisor: A S. Fotheringham) 1995
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M.A. Geography, State University New York Buffalo 1991
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Post Graduate Certificate Education (Geography) Oxford University 1988
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B.A. Honors Geography and Economics, Portsmouth Polytechnic, UK 1987
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of the Practice of American Studies and Ethnicity 2010-- present
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Visiting Associate Professor Department of Geography 2007 – 2010
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Affiliated faculty American Studies and Ethnicity 2009 – 2010
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Center for Premature Infant Health and Development, USC 2007 – 2010
Louisiana State University
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Assistant Professor Department of Geography and Anthropology 2001 – 2007
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Adjunct faculty, Department of Environmental Studies 2003 -- 2007
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Associate Director CADGIS Computer Lab 2002 -- 2007
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Instructor, Department of Geography and Anthropology 1999 – 2001
Morehead State University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Government and History 1996 – 1999
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Instructor, Department of Geography, Government and History 1995 -- 1996
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
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Recipient of the 2007 Meredith F. Burrill Award (the AAG’s award was to honor individuals or groups that have completed work of exceptional merit and quality that lies at or near the intersection of basic research in geography on the one hand, and practical applications or policy implications on the other) for the LSU GIS Clearinghouse Cooperative (group also includes Jackie Mills, Michael Leitner, Barrett Kennedy, John Pine).
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Los Angeles County Enhanced Comprehensive HIV Prevention Planning (ECHPP) scientific advisory committee member.
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Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Cartography and Geographic Information Science
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Spatial confidentiality consultant for the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries
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Popular media: New York Times, “The changing landscape of the Lower Ninth Ward” 8/27/2010 For the interactive spatial video application see: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/27/us/lower9th-5year-anniversary.html?ref=us
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Panel Member of the National Institute Health RFA: Effects of the Social Environment on Health: Measurement, Method, and Mechanisms 2012
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Panel Member of the National Science Foundation’s Geography and Spatial Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award 2010 – 2012
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Panel member: Hazards and Disasters, Linking social science data and environmental data for climate change research, The National Academies, Washington DC December 2009.
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Panel member of the National Science Foundation’s Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) preliminary proposal review, February 23-24, 2009, Arlington, VA
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Director (and previously Deputy Director) of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and GIS for Public Health, located at Louisiana State University (2001 – 2007)
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Refereed Journals
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Mills, J.W., Curtis, A., and J. Upperman forthcoming Using a Geographic Information System (GIS) to Assess Pediatric Surge Potential after an Earthquake Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
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Guerrero, E.G., Pan, K. B., Curtis, A., and E. L. Lizano (2011) Availability of substance abuse treatment services in Spanish: A GIS analysis of Latino communities in Los Angeles County, California Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 6:21
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Lentz, JA., Blackburn, J.K. and A Curtis (2011) Evaluating Patterns of a White-band Disease (WBD)
Outbreak in Acropora palmata Using Spatial Analysis: A Comparison of Transect and Colony Clustering, PLoS ONE 6(7): e21830. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021830
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Curtis, A., and J.W. Mills (2011) Spatial video data collection in a post-disaster landscape: The Tuscaloosa Tornado of April 28th 2011 Applied Geography 32 393-400
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Curtis, A., and J.W. Mills (2011) Crime in urban post-disaster environments: A methodological framework from New Orleans Urban Geography 32 (4) 488-510
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Curtis, A., Mills, J.W., L. Augustin and M. Cockburn (2011) Confidentiality Risks in Fine Scale Aggregations of Health Data Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 35 57-64
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Curtis, A., Pine, J., Marx, B., Li, B. and J. Mills (2011) A Multiple Additive Regression Tree Analysis of Three Exposure Measures during Hurricane Katrina: Implications for Recovery in Orleans Parish Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management 35(1) 19-35
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Mills, J.W., A.J. Curtis, B. Kennedy, S.W. Kennedy, and J. Edwards. (2010) Geospatial video for field data collection. Applied Geography 30(4) 533-547
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Curtis, A. (2010) Chronic disease as an evacuation impediment: using a Geographic Information System and 911 call data after Katrina to determine neighborhood scale health vulnerability Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 1(3) Article 5
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Curtis, A and W A Lee (2010) Spatial patterns of diabetes related health problems for vulnerable populations in Los Angeles International Journal of Health Geographics 9:43
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Blackburn, J.K., Curtis, A., Hadfield, T.L., O’Shea, B., Mitchell, M.A., and M.E. Hugh-Jones (2010) Confirmation of Bacillus anthracis from Flesh Eating Flies Collected During a West Texas Anthrax Season Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46(3) 918-922
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Blackburn, J.K., Mitchell, M.A., Holley Blackburn, M.C, Curtis, A., and B.A. Thompson (2010) Evidence of antibiotic resistance in free-swimming top-level marine predatory fishes Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 41(1) 7-16
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Curtis, A., Duval-Diop, D.,and J. Novak (2010) Identifying spatial patterns of recovery and abandonment in the Post-Katrina Holy Cross neighborhood of New Orleans Cartography and Geographic Information Science 37(1): 45-56
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Duval-Diop, D., Curtis, A., and A. Clark (2010) Enhancing Equity with Public Participatory GIS in Hurricane Rebuilding: Faith Based Organizations, Community Mapping, and Policy Advocacy Journal of Community Development Society 41(1): 32-49
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Boulos, K. M.N., Curtis, A. and P. AbdelMalik (2009) Musings on privacy issues in health research involving disaggregate geographic data about individuals International Journal of Health Geographics 8:46
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Curtis, A (2008) Three-dimensional visualization of cultural clusters in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic of New Orleans International Journal Health Geographics 7:47.
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Curtis, A (2008) From Healthy Start to Hurricane Katrina: using GIS to eliminate disparities in perinatal health Statistics in Medicine 27(20): 3984-3997.
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Mills, J.W., Curtis, A., Pine, J., Kennedy, B., Jones, F., Ramani, R. and D. Bausch. (2008) The clearinghouse concept: a model for geospatial data centralization and dissemination in a disaster Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management 32(3): 467-479
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Blackburn, J.K., Curtis, A., Currin Mujica, F., Jones, F., Dorn, P. and R. Coates (2008) The development of the Chagas’ Online Data Entry System (CODES-GIS), Transactions in GIS 12(2): 249-265.
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Mills, J.W. and A. Curtis (2008) Geospatial approaches for disease risk communication in marginalized communities. Progress in Community Health Partnerships Research, Education and Action 2 (1): 61-72.
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Blackburn, J., McNyset, K., Curtis, A. and M. Hugh-Jones (2007) Modeling the geographic distribution of bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax disease, for the contiguous united states using predictive ecological niche modeling American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 77(6): 1103-1110.
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