Problem Themes Year Place Authors Partners Decision-Science Focus & Tools Utilized Key Partner Links West Nile Virus – Northern Great Plains--USA 2005 USA – Great Plains, Indian Lands (Rosebud Sioux Reservation) Eric Wood F. Lee DeCola (USGS) Chuck Croner (CDC)  Northern Plains Indian Epid. Unit Tracking (GPS), epidemiological case finding, visualization with GIS/RS, data analysis of trends and modeling (SAS, IDRISI, ArcModeler, STELLA, TerraVIVA USGS-EDC (International Programs); CDC - WNV site; NativeView Geoscience; F.Lee DeCola’s, Prototype Health Atlas (USGS-Reston) Urban Food Security Risk Assessment and Planning 2005 Inner-city Pomona Miriam Cope (Cal Poly Pomona-CGISR) GIS of food security and poverty targeting a specific underserved zip code. Involves geocoding and joining client data with location, demographics data, and food stores into a geodatabase. Miriam Cope (Cal Poly Pomona-CGISR),  Ford (LLU/SPOL), Wiafe (GEOGISPH), CEEMaST-CSUPomona; City of Pomona and others Visualizing Morbidity and Mortality data via an Online Atlas 2005 USA F. Lee De Cola (USGS); Chuck Croner (CDC) Development of a prototype “health atlas” that allows online interactive viewing and analysis of morbidity and mortality statistics and their spatial relationships See--F. Lee De Cola’s website: Prototype Health Atlas (USGS-Reston); CDC-NCHS-GIS; LLU/Health Geoinformatics (GEOGISPH); see Powerpoint on Health Atlas and Mapping Poverty, Health and Landuse / Land Cover (LULC) change in Coastal Zones 2005 Coastal Tanzania Bowen  (URI/CRC) Makota  (TCMP), Fitzgerald (UR), Ford (LLU/SPOL), Sam Soret (LLU/Env) Mazinga (LLU/SPOL), Wiafe (GEOGISPH) Policy analysis and decision-making, open-access Internet-Map Server; government & community data sharing, accountability on health, environment, landcover change   economic growth, population; tools: Remote Sensing--IDRISI, Data Mining—SAS, (ArcIMS-ESRI) Tanzania Coastal Management Partnership (TCMP), U. Rhode Island, Coastal Resources Center (URI/CRC), Loma Linda University, Natural Sciences (LLU/NS), NEMC (National Env. Mngt. Council) of Tanzania, LLU/Health Geoinformatics (GEOGISPH) – see also Powerpoint Hunger Hotspots and Targeting of MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) 2005 Africa Alex De Sherbinin, CIESIN/Earth Institute Population-health-environment-agric. research to target “hunger risk” areas and children in Africa;  targeting and measuring the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) CIESIN; the Columbia University Earth Institute; UN/MDGs Research program; SEDAC and PERN; TerraVIVA; FAO’s  Geonetwork Spatial Data Information portal Bauxite Mining, Human Health, and  Integrated Coastal Zone Management (CZM) 2005 Jamaica (Mandeville) Dr. Mark Harris (NCU), Steven Dunbar (LLU/NS), Ford (LLU/SPOL), Soret (GEGISPH) Effects of bauxite mining on health and environment; integrative ‘ridge to reef’ research program focusing on issues of health, society, economics and the ecology of the area.  Tools: all types NCU (Jamaica); Loma Linda University, Natural Sciences (LLU/NS), LLU/Health Geoinformatics (GEOGISPH), U. Rhode Island, Coastal Resources Center (URI/CRC) – SEE News Item (NCU & Mining) Rift Valley Fever: Its Economic, Ecological and Human Health Impacts 2006 Horn of Africa and Southern Africa Eric Wood (USGS-EDC/IP) and others Remote Sensing and other ground-truthing for surveillance, monitoring, forecasting, reducing impact on humans and livestock USGS-EDC (International Programs)—see Info Sheet; and RVF-Home;  NOAA, USAID, CDC, NEMA, EarthSat, etc. Schistosomiasis and Ecosystem Change 2006 Asia and Horn of Africa (China) John Malone (LSU)  GNOSISGIS, LLU/Health Geoinformatics (GEOGISPH) Medical geography and spatial epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Africa and Asia: use of GIS and Remote Sensing and other tools for analysis Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fund; Department of Pathobiological Sciences School of Veterinary Medicine Louisiana State University HIV/AIDS, Orphans, Social Capital and Sustainable Livelihoods 2006 Malawi and Zimbabwe Ford (LLU/SPOL), Soret (GEGISPH), Mark Carr, Center for Christian Bioethics (LLU/BE), Wiafe (GEOGISPH), Gideon Mazinga (Malawi), George Dzimiri (Zimbabwe) Assess spatial dimensions of HIV/AIDS “coping” and “social capital” particularly as affecting care of orphans; household coping strategies for “assets” management (natural, social, economic, human…): Participatory GIS and PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) UNAIDS (Regional Office in Malawi), ADRA International, various local NGOs, (LLU/SPOL),  LLU/Health Geoinformatics (GEOGISPH), Center for Christian Bioethics (LLU/BE) Agricultural Production, Reefs-at-risk, Hurricane Risk and Human Health Impacts 2006 Honduras: Bay Islands, La Ceiba, Trujillo Steven Dunbar (LLU/NS), Ford (LLU/SPOL), Soret (GEGISPH) Impacts of tourism, over fishing, export agriculture (Bananas), Hurricane Mitch, and need to protect marine and terrestrial biodiversity: all tools used for analysis Bay Islands University (French Harbour, Roatan), (LLU/NS), LLU/Health Geoinformatics (GEOGISPH), U. Rhode Island, Coastal Resources Center (URI/CRC), Ford (LLU/SPOL), BICA/Corral Reef Alliance, ICRSE, CIAT; ICRSE--Remote Sensing Core Curriculum & Earth Foundation (Earth Portal) Micronutrient, Biofortification, Targeting  of Agricultural Research and Investment, Poverty and Human Health 2006 Global with focus on Latin America Hyman/CIAT, Simon Cook (CIAT), Robert Zomer (IWMI) Global research to breed and disseminate crops for better nutrition using biofortification. Agricultural and nutrition scientists work to breed crops that provide higher levels of micronutrients, e.g. iron, zinc, and vitamin A.  Geo-information tools for “targeting” to specific agro-ecosystem  need. CSI-CGIAR—CIAT and IWMI;  HarvestPlus and Gates Foundation; (GIS Activities of CSI); CIAT-Target Agroecosystems Project; CIAT-Landuse Team; IWMI— CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food; Urban Air Pollution, Asthma and Spatial Epidemiology 2007 Los Angeles (USA) Southcoast Air Basin (LLU) Knutsen, Synnove F. , Beeson, Larry , Ghamsary, Mark , Soret, Samuel Cardiovascular Disease Risk to Ambient Air Pollutants Using Geographic Information Systems Technology and Bayesian Neural Networks. LLU/Health Geoinformatics (GEOGISPH); South Coast AQMD (Air Quality Management District); AHSMOG Research Project; EPA, Center for Environment Research and LLU Urban Health Hazards, Flood Risk, Pollution and LULC (land use/land cover) 2007 US-Mexico Border, Matamorros & Brownsville; El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Jean Parcher-USGS-Texas/Mexico Border; Janet Greenlee, (LESA) Use of remote sensing and other GIS technologies to model risk for flooding, pollution, health, and housing issues along the US-Mexico border Texas Mapping Partnership Office (USGS-Texas); Laboratory for Environmental Spatial Analysis (LESA), New Mexico State University Targeting Health Services to Underserved (Hypertension) 2007 San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, USA Sam Soret and Seth Wiafe (LLU), Diane Woods, School of Public Health, Ford (LLU/SPOL) Assessment of health services delivery, health risks (hypertension), policy issues and socio-economic status; urban poor (primarily African American and Hispanics); spatial dimensions of disease and low access to health services and financing (health insurance), etc. LLU/Health Geoinformatics (GEOGISPH); (LLU/SPOL); Inland Empire Healthy Cities and Healthy Communities;  Norton Neighborhood; Community Outreach Program of Loma Linda University and Medical Center.; SACHC; clinics;  San Bernardino County Health Dep. Malaria: Global Forecasting of Risk; Agriculture and Malaria 2007 Africa, Global Madeleine Thompson (IRI & Earth Institute, Columbia University), Eric Wood (USGS-EDC), Robert Zomer (IWMI-SIMA) Project Creating malaria disease risk maps (early warning); analysis of the interactions between malaria and agriculture, as well as other human landuse/landcover changes, e.g. irrigation. SIMA (System Wide Initiative on Malaria and Agriculture)—IWMI; IWMI— CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food; see article (Malone et al) from Eritrea (2003).