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AAG 2010: Geographic Context of Global Health (Green) from Eric Green on Vimeo. Association of American Geographers, 2010 Annual Meeting Interactive Short Paper Session: Geographic Contexts of Global Health Abstract Characteristics of the social and physical environment — the social ecology — can positively or negatively influence the health and well-being of adolescents, including their ability to avoid contracting [...] I posted the syllabus for my upcoming Public Health Informatics II course: Health Mapping in a Digital Age. This workshop is for students in the NYU Master’s Program in Global Public Health. This one-day workshop is designed to give students an overview of current trends in health mapping; knowledge of state-of-the-art tools, methods, and [...] GeoTime by Oculus is a software package that claims to offer “efficient insight into behaviors in time and space.” This program is interesting because it enables users to visualize and analyze spatial event data on the X and Y plane AND temporal data on the vertical axis. Find more videos [...] The fate of Migingo Island remains unclear. Who is the rightful owner? Kenya? Uganda? In addition to having evidence on their side, Kenya also has popular support. There are currently 785 “fans” of the Migingo is KENYAN page on Facebook. There is also a Migingo for Kenya group (239 members) and a [...] Kenya and Uganda are in a row over a small island on Lake Victoria that lies near their shared border. Jeffrey Gettleman picked up on the dispute in a recent NY Times article. I have disagreed with Gettleman’s descriptions of African affairs in the past, but I think he got Migingo [...] |
I am an Associate in the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program at the Population Council and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Public Health in the New York University Master's Program in Global Public Health. 
 
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