|
|||||
|
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 [...] Kate at Wronging Rights points to an AP report that the Cambodian government has complained to Google about the representation of its border with Thailand in Google Earth, calling it “devoid of truth and reality, and professionally irresponsible, if not pretentious.” Good luck Cambodia. Google still has not responded to my message [...] When I called David Kobia to launch the Ushahidi platform two hours after the earthquake, our priority was to map all relevant reports in near real-time and to do so around the clock. This meant monitoring Tweets, Facebook groups, list serves, emails, online news media, blogs, radio and television programs, and now incoming SMS. That’s [...] Peter Baker reports on the Administration’s decision-making process for the troop surge in Afghanistan in the excellent NY Times article, “How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan.” Nothing settles a disagreement like a good ole fashioned map-off. After a meeting where the Pentagon made a presentation with impressive color-coded maps, Mrs. Clinton [...] I am giving a talk at Duke next week on mapping and health as part of the Information Science Information Studies Tech and New Media series. Tuesday 10/27 at noon in the John Hope Franklin Center. I’ll post the slides here later in the week.
|
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. 
 
|
||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Eric P. Green - All Rights Reserved |
|||||