The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Health Community of Practice is pleased to host the fifth annual CoP/AmeriGEO Special Edition on Tuesday, August 26 from 8:30-10:30AM EDT (GMT-4). This teleconference will highlight 4-minute flash talks on using Earth observations for public health applications in the Americas Region.
AGENDA
Category I: Infectious Diseases
Malaria Early Warning System in Panama and Honduras: Validation and Adoption (William Pan, Duke Univ.)
Incorporating Wind Speed into Climate-Based Models of West Nile Virus: A Comparative Analysis in Two U.S. Regions (Eric Bump, Univ. of Oklahoma)
Category II: Heat
Humid Heatwaves in Mississippi (Salit Chakma, Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center)
Category III: Environmental Health
Poseidon: Turning Ocean Intelligence into Global Health Protection (Ajay K. Gupta, HSR.health)
EOTEC DevNet: Fostering Collaboration among the Leading Global Providers of Earth Observation Training and Tools (Yasha Moz, NASA HQ/BAH)
Category IV: Air Quality
Empowering Geohealth with Open Air Quality Data (Colleen Rosales, OpenAQ)
Using Earth Observations to Identify Air Pollution Burden and Associated Public Health Impacts in Harris County, Texas (Caroline Crystal & Chanmi Lee, NASA DEVELOP at NASA Ames Research Center)
Using Earth Observations to Quantify Methane Concentrations Produced by Landfills in New Hampshire (Chloe Alimurong and Ana Chavez, NASA DEVELOP at Massachusetts-Boston Node)
Multi-Scale Greenspace Indicators and Children’s Sleep: Evidence Controlling for Weather and Air Quality (Jue Yang, Brown Univ.)
Sub-City-Scale Air Quality Forecasting for Rio: Applying Model, Satellite, and Ground-Based Observations to Produce Localized Early Warnings (Carl Malings, NASA GSFC & Morgan State Univ. and Nathan Pavlovic, Sonoma Technology)
Enabling Access to Air Quality Forecast in the Americas (Beatriz Cárdenas, World Resources Institute)
Spatiotemporal Correlation of MODIS MAIAC AOD and Epidemiological Data in the Most Polluted City of Mexico (Xanat Antonio-Némiga & Angelica Neria-Hernández, Autonomous Univ. of the State of Mexico)