IMGS Conference Abstracts 2026

Index to Participants

Aasvang, Gunn Marit : Norwegian Institute of Public Health

• Burden of disease from road traffic noise and associations with socioeconomic marginalization in Toronto, Canada

Aboagye, Joseph : University of Nebraska at Omaha

• Geographies of COVID-19: Hindsights and Insights for Health Geography

Abu, Thelma : Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies, University of Connecticut, USA

• Assessing Agroforestry for Climate Change Mitigation in Semi-arid Ghana from a Human-Environment Health Perspective
• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• Towards Bridging Stakeholder Realities and Institutional Policies on Climate and Mental Health in Semi-Arid Northern Ghana
• The Hidden Costs of Flooding and Combined Sewer Overflows: Evidence from a Systematic Media Analysis (1970-2025)

Abu-Shanab, Alia : University of Missouri, International Association of Fire Fighters

• Community Mapping of the pediatric autism diagnosis to services journey: a power analysis for identifying systemic barriers to care in Columbia, MO

Abubakar, Eleojo : University of Liverpool

• Association between neighbourhood greenspace availability and the development of multiple long-term conditions, a follow-up study in urban areas of Scotland

Abudho, Bernard : COHESU

• Women, water and building back better: a case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa

Abuelezam, Nadia : Michigan State University

• Sprawling Out: Extending Research on Links between Urban Form and Health to Consider Additional Metropolitan Characteristics

Achore, Meshack : Hofstra University

• Towards Bridging Stakeholder Realities and Institutional Policies on Climate and Mental Health in Semi-Arid Northern Ghana

Ackert, Liz : University of California, Santa Barbara

• Reproductive Health across the Life Course: Linking Early Menarche to Disease

Adams, Matthew : University of Toronto Mississauga

• Residential odour impact and well-being in a steel manufacturing city

Afriyie, Emmanuel : University of Tennessee

• Spatial Optimization Approach for Assessing Spatial Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Access

Aghanejad, Reza : Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), University of Luxembourg

• Investigating the dose-response effect of walking in virtual urban environments on stress levels
• Effects of the Number and Sequence of Environmental Exposure Episodes on Stress Responses

Aguilar-Palma, Sandy : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Agyabeng, Kofi : New York University

• Depression in a Rapidly Urbanising African City: Urban Environment, Neighbourhood Stress, and Spatial Risk in Accra, Ghana

Ainooson, Olivia : Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies, University of Connecticut, USA

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• The Hidden Costs of Flooding and Combined Sewer Overflows: Evidence from a Systematic Media Analysis (1970-2025)

Ajebon, Mildred : Durham University

• Thermal Rest Regimes: Embodied Thermal Precarity and the Politics of Rest in a Warming Urban World

Akter, Konok : PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant, Division of Epidemiology and Social Sciences, Institute for Health & Humanity, Medical College of Wisconsin

• Structural Disinvestment, Neighborhood Heat Exposure and the Mediating Effect of Tree Canopy: A National Study across U.S. Census Tracts

Alavez, Jose : University of Washington at Seattle

• Design and Community Engagement in Spatial Web-Based Applications for Public Health: A Web Mapping Application Evaluation Framework

Alexander, Monica : Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto

• Climate, Overdose, and Resilience: Combining Open Source Data to Examine Seasonality in Opioid Overdose and Shelter Utilization in Toronto

Allain, Manon : École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, École de technologie supérieure, Centre de recherche en santé publique

• Imagining Ideal School Streets Through Minecraft: A Child-Centred Participatory Mapping Approach

Almer Bernsdorf, Kamille : Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Denmark

• Mapping the retail food environment at high resolution across Europe

Alvarez-Carrascal, Ferna : Vanderbilt University

• Integrated Geospatial Framework for Equitable PFAS Contamination Response in Community Water Systems

Amagnamoua, Simone : Université de Sherbrooke

• Conceptualizing Healthcare Gentrification: Results From a Scoping Review

Amegbor, Prince Michael : New York University

• Depression in a Rapidly Urbanising African City: Urban Environment, Neighbourhood Stress, and Spatial Risk in Accra, Ghana
• Quantifying Causal Effect of Extreme Heat on Dog Bite Incidents in New York City: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Community Vulnerability

Amoak, Daniel : School of the Environment, Trent University, Canada

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis

Ampofo, Solomon : University of Nebraska at Omaha

• Geographies of COVID-19: Hindsights and Insights for Health Geography

Anderson, Kelly : Western University

• Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Accessibility to Cannabis Retailers on Youth Cannabis Use in Canada from 2018 to 2023

Andrade, Cecilia : University of Missouri

• Community Mapping of the pediatric autism diagnosis to services journey: a power analysis for identifying systemic barriers to care in Columbia, MO
• Insurance Literacy as a Global Barrier to Care: Insights from a U.S. Case Study

Andrews, Gavin J. : McMaster University

• Reflecting on a decade of health and medical geography: A systematic review

Anfaara, Florence : Western University

• Multisectoral Approach to Managing Disease Outbreaks in Post-Conflict Settings: The Ebola situation in Liberia

Antabe, Roger : University of Toronto Scarborough, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

• Stakeholders' Perspectives on Canada's Progress Toward Achieving UNAIDS 95-95-95 HIV Targets for Black Communities in Ontario
• HIV Anti-Stigma Empowerment Readiness Among Service Providers in Canada: A Post-intervention Assessment of Sustained Impact

Anthonj, Carmen : University of Twente, The Netherlands

• Environment and health insecurity experiences of vulnerable populations at the local scale

Apparicio, Philippe : Sherbrooke University

• Potential Spatial Accessibility to Primary Health Care in The Province of Quebec Over Time: Associations with Gentrification
• Conceptualizing Healthcare Gentrification: Results From a Scoping Review

Aranda, Mitia : University of Dundee

• Tracing blue space assemblage trajectories across disabled people’s lived experiences in Scotland

Arora, Kanupreet : Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment at UTM

• Seeking Care Facing Doubt: Long COVID Experiences of Racialized Immigrants in the Region of Peel

Ashraf, Maryam : Ontario Tech University

• Phthalates and Women’s Hormonal Health: A Review of Exposure Evidence and Regulatory Labeling Contexts

Askelson, Natoshia : University of Iowa

• Individual and Community Determinants of Adolescent HPV Vaccination in Iowa

Astell-Burt, Thomas : The University of Sydney

• Incorporating nature in walkability indices

Auyeung, Alexandra : University of Toronto Mississauga

• Residential odour impact and well-being in a steel manufacturing city

Azupogo, Urbanus : Queen's University

• Gendered water-contact behaviour and schistosomiasis exposure pathways in Western Kenya.

Baatiema, Leonard : University of Ghana

• ‘We did not know stroke, and we also did not know ulcers’: A qualitative study of perceived health impacts of food systems globalization on smallholder farmers in northern Ghana
• Coping with non-communicable diseases in a changing climate: A mixed methods study of coping strategies of smallholder farmers living with non-communicable diseases in northern Ghana

Babinetz, Lauren : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Violent Injury Emergency Department Visits by Women in North Carolina

Badland, Hannah : Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University

• Building Better: Neighbourhoods to benefit children with disability

Bagheri, Nasser : University of Canberra

• Exploring the impact of neighbourhood social fragmentation on early childhood developmental vulnerability

Bai, Yihong : University of Manitoba

• To what extent do patterns of IPV-related emergency department visits differ across sexual orientations, and do these disparities vary by sex?
• Geographic Patterns of Domestic Violence and Abuse: Sexual Orientation Disparities in Ontario
• Geographies of Housing Insecurity: Equity Transitions for Gender Diverse Households in Canada
• Neighbourhood Deprivation Across Gender Identities in Canada: Unequal Place‑Based Transitions for Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults
• Uneven Geographies of Preventable Acute Care: Sexual Orientation Inequities in Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions in Ontario, Canada

Baptiste-Roberts, Kesha : Morgan State University

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Barakat, Caroline : Ontario Tech University

• Supporting Girls’ Sport Participation: Development and Evaluation of an Evidence-Informed Parental Digital Toolkit
• Phthalates and Women’s Hormonal Health: A Review of Exposure Evidence and Regulatory Labeling Contexts
• Life-Course Transitions and the Geographies of Health: Macro- and Micro-Level Predictors of Self-Rated Health from Childhood to Adulthood
• A Medical Geography and Health Equity Perspective on Women’s Exposure to Bisphenol A
• Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Accessibility to Cannabis Retailers on Youth Cannabis Use in Canada from 2018 to 2023

Bardhan, Ronita : University of Cambridge

• Understanding historic changes in the number and geographic distribution of food outlets selling ultra-processed foods in Singapore, and implications for population diet and obesity

Bardwell, Geoff : School of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

• A Qualitative Study Exploring People Who Use Drugs’ Understandings of Safety at the Intersection of Built Environments and the Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis
• From Risk to Care: Exploring the Role of the Built Environment in Shaping Overdose Survivability Among People Who Use Drugs in British Columbia: A Qualitative Case Study

Barkhouse, Kate : Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University

• Misconceptions and Misdiagnosis of Hypertension: Comparing and Contrasting the Determinants of Self-Reported and Measured Hypertension

Baroud, Hiba : Vanderbilt University

• Integrated Geospatial Framework for Equitable PFAS Contamination Response in Community Water Systems

Barrett, Nadine : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Barwood, Martin : Leeds Trinity University

• Association between air temperature and unintentional drowning risk in the United Kingdom 2012-2019: a geospatial nationwide case-crossover study
• The water incident database (WAID) 2012 to 2019: a systematic evaluation of the documenting of UK drownings

Bashiga, Moise : Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs

• Trauma, mapepo, and the limits of “treatment gaps” in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Bavin, Sally : The Woodland Trust

• Socio-spatial inequalities in UK urban tree canopy cover

Beauvalet, Victor : Université de Rouen-Normandie

• Using agent-based simulation to reconstruct historical disease landscapes,: the example of malaria in Cyprus

Bell, Andrew : The University of Sheffield

• Inequalities in midlife mortality (1991-2019) in England by intersecting structural neighbourhood characteristics: A longitudinal application of eco-intersectional modelling

Bell, Michelle : Yale School of the Environment

• Paths Forward for Environmental Health: Survey Results

Bell, Sarah : University of Exeter

• Tracing disability in the creation of just climate futures
• Extending geographical conceptualisations of health-enhancing environments: cultivating amelioration, new practices and social transformation

Bennett, Alexa : Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• Characterizing the health impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) across the life course: An umbrella review

Bennett, Natalie : The University of Manchester

• Inequalities in midlife mortality (1991-2019) in England by intersecting structural neighbourhood characteristics: A longitudinal application of eco-intersectional modelling

Beroza, Alenna : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Best, Catherine : University of Stirling

• Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024

Best, Kelsea : The Ohio State University

• Climate Change & Health Experiences among Queer Communities: Learnings from Research Collaborations in the United States

Beyer, Kirsten : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health
• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode
• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Structural Disinvestment, Neighborhood Heat Exposure and the Mediating Effect of Tree Canopy: A National Study across U.S. Census Tracts

Bhattacharya, Shamayeta : Point Park University

• A critical analysis of barriers and facilitators in accessing healthcare among transgender and gender diverse people in urban India
• GeoArt for Policy conversation and holistic wellbeing

Bhawra, Jasmin : Toronto Metropolitan University, CHANGE Research Lab

• Climate Care Toronto: Digital Citizen Science for Equitable Climate Action, Health, and Urban Futures
• DiScO: Reimagining Real Time Public Health Crises Response through Human Centred AI and Digital Transformation
• Impacts of Climate Change in Rural Pune, India: Qualitative Findings from the Climate Care India initiative

Biglieri, Samantha : Toronto Metropolitan University

• A Mixed Qualitative Approach to Understand Top-Down and Bottom-Up Food Systems Planning

Birenboim, Amit : Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Investigating the dose-response effect of walking in virtual urban environments on stress levels
• Effects of the Number and Sequence of Environmental Exposure Episodes on Stress Responses

Bisung, Elijah : The Queen's University

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• Trust and Zoonotic Disease Surveillance Among Nomadic Pastoralists in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Scoping Review
• Women, water and building back better: a case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa
• “They have my number, but they have not called to check up on me”: Exploring trust in the health care system among sex workers living with HIV in Kumasi, Ghana
• Gendered water-contact behaviour and schistosomiasis exposure pathways in Western Kenya.
• Interventions to improve health and the determinants of health among sex workers living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Blache-Pichette, Clara : Université de Sherbrooke

• Neighbourhood revitalization, changes in housing, and young adult health and well-being: insights from go-along interviews in Sherbrooke, Canada
• How are public participation processes experienced in the context of urban regeneration initiatives? A descriptive interpretive qualitative study.

Blackman, Elizabeth : American Association for Cancer Research

• Responsible GeoAI for Cancer Research: Synthesizing GeoAI and CancerAI with a Case Study of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

Blake, Marcus : Centre for Australian Research into Accessibility, Deakin Rural Health, Australia

• Climate change impacts on inequitable access to healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand

Boadu, Russhielder : Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies, University of Connecticut, USA

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• Towards Bridging Stakeholder Realities and Institutional Policies on Climate and Mental Health in Semi-Arid Northern Ghana

Bobholz, Faith : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Bobholz, Max : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Boes, MPH, Kevin : Creighton university School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska 68178

• Cross-sectional correlations between county-level flooding and incidence of flood-related diagnoses
• Visualizing the location and utilization of health resource vending machines as part of an opioid overdose intervention through a local health department
• Methods - Extracting historical National Weather Service warning, watch, and advisory data from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet for spatial analysis

Boodram, Basmattee : University of Illinois Chicago

• Housing Instability and Transitions Among People Who Inject Drugs in Chicago and Surrounding Suburbs: A Hidden Markov Model Analysis

Borgmann, Avery : NYU Grossman School of Medicine

• “I Had to Go There for My Own Safety”: Negotiations of Access and Autonomy among DC Birth Settings

Bork-Hüffer, Tabea : Heidelberg University

• Tracing Biosocial Ambiguities: Young People with Disabilities Negotiating Everyday Spaces

Bowes, Ali : Nottingham Trent University

• Participation, Performance, and Potential for Health: Towards Critical Geographies of Health and Sport

Bowie, Ainsley : Florida State University

• Negotiating Mobility: Methodological Insights from Older Adults' Activity Diaries

Bowman, Grace : University of Colorado Boulder

• “It’s Not Top Of Mind”: Emerging adults’ views of neighborhoods and cognitive aging
• Beyond Home Loss: Exploration of Physical Health Pathways for Residents of Smoke-Damaged versus Destroyed Homes after a WUI Fire

Bowness, Evan : Western University, Canada

• Co-developing a community-based recipe book to support Urban Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Brodeur, Magaly : Univeristé de Sherbrooke

• How are public participation processes experienced in the context of urban regeneration initiatives? A descriptive interpretive qualitative study.

Brown, Catherine : Michigan State University

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Brown, Tim : Queen Mary University of London

• Food on the move? Promoting food security through post-colonial infrastructure repair

Browning, Matthew : Clemson University

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Brum-Bastos, Vanessa : School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury, GeoHealth Laboratory, University of Canterbury

• Beyond Residence: Rethinking Environmental Exposure Assessment in Health Geography Using Mobile Phone Location Data

Bullock, Michelle : Michigan State University

• Lung Cancer Survival in Michigan: A Spatial Epidemiological Study

Burgoine, Thomas : University of Cambridge

• Understanding historic changes in the number and geographic distribution of food outlets selling ultra-processed foods in Singapore, and implications for population diet and obesity
• Socioeconomic inequalities in online fresh food delivery use and associations with the neighborhood food environment
• A Geospatial Analysis of Clustering of Fast-Food Outlets around Schools in London (UK) and Associations with Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal, Ecological Study
• Mapping the retail food environment at high resolution across Europe

Burns, Victoria : University of Calgary, Recovery on Campus

• Recovering in Place: A Spatial Approach to Equity, Lived Experience, and Addiction Recovery

Bursac, Katarina : Toronto Metropolitan University

• Impacts of Climate Change in Rural Pune, India: Qualitative Findings from the Climate Care India initiative

Buttazzoni, Adrian : University of Waterloo

• Bounded Mobilities: Exploring Adolescents’ Mobility Habits and Constraints in High-Rise Urban Environments

Buzanko, Caroline : 1. Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University, Canada

• Problematic Social Media Use, Loneliness, and Neighbourhood Social Cohesion: A study of Canadian Adolescents

Cabrera, Carmen : University of Liverpool

• A Multi-Dimensional Framework of Factors Impacting the UK Mental Healthcare Journey

Callaghan, Don : Iowa Department of Health & Human Services

• Individual and Community Determinants of Adolescent HPV Vaccination in Iowa

Campbell, Malcolm : Te Kura Aronukurangi | School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury, Te Taiwhenua o te Hauora | The GeoHealth Laboratory, University of Canterbury

• Mapping at the science-policy interface: Academic engagement in evidence-based policy.
• Beyond Residence: Rethinking Environmental Exposure Assessment in Health Geography Using Mobile Phone Location Data
• Mental wellbeing and loneliness in Aotearoa, New Zealand: A spatial microsimulation approach

Canepa, Cade : Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE 68178

• Opioids in the Extreme Weather? An In-Depth Look at Temporospatial Distribution of Opioid Overdose

Cao, Peiya : York University

• To what extent do patterns of IPV-related emergency department visits differ across sexual orientations, and do these disparities vary by sex?
• Geographic Patterns of Domestic Violence and Abuse: Sexual Orientation Disparities in Ontario
• Geographies of Housing Insecurity: Equity Transitions for Gender Diverse Households in Canada
• Neighbourhood Deprivation Across Gender Identities in Canada: Unequal Place‑Based Transitions for Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults
• Uneven Geographies of Preventable Acute Care: Sexual Orientation Inequities in Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions in Ontario, Canada

Cao, Yanjia : The University of Hong Kong

• A perception-integrated bio-geo informatics framework for multi-scale dynamic mental well-being
• Acute Stress Responses and Mental Health Impacts: Rapid Evidence from the Deadly Tai Po Fire in Hong Kong

Cardwell, Francesca : Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis

Cardwell, Francesca S. : University of Waterloo

• Reflecting on a decade of health and medical geography: A systematic review

Carrel, Margaret : University of Iowa

• Individual and Community Determinants of Adolescent HPV Vaccination in Iowa
• Residential histories in the All of Us Research Program: Challenges and opportunities for expanding place-based health research

Casanave, DrPH, Leah : Douglas County Health Deapartment

• Visualizing the location and utilization of health resource vending machines as part of an opioid overdose intervention through a local health department

Cassar, Craig : City of Hamilton

• The CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative: Partnering for Active School Transportation in Hamilton, Ontario, Integrating Learnings from Helsinki, Finland

Cervinka, Emma : University of Toronto

• Bounded Mobilities: Exploring Adolescents’ Mobility Habits and Constraints in High-Rise Urban Environments

Chaix, Basile : Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Nemesis research team

• Challenges in using fully-automated GEMA survey with online recruitment - Insights from the FragMent study on environmental determinants of stress
• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Chamberlain, Mark : Daily School Route

• The CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative: Partnering for Active School Transportation in Hamilton, Ontario, Integrating Learnings from Helsinki, Finland

Chambers, Annika : The University of Edinburgh

• A longitudinal Study of Changing Tobacco Availability and Maternal Health Behaviours in Scotland

Chan, Brianna : University of California, Santa Barbara

• Reproductive Health across the Life Course: Linking Early Menarche to Disease

Chang, Dorita : The University of Hong Kong

• Acute Stress Responses and Mental Health Impacts: Rapid Evidence from the Deadly Tai Po Fire in Hong Kong

Charalambidou, Iris : University of Nicosia

• Using agent-based simulation to reconstruct historical disease landscapes,: the example of malaria in Cyprus

Chartrand, Frances : Manitoba Metis Federation

• “I had to load up a car full of people to get tested”: Rural and Remote Red River Metis experiences of COVID-19

Chen, Guangping : Central China Normal University

• Socioeconomic inequalities in online fresh food delivery use and associations with the neighborhood food environment

Chen, Tara T. : Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo

• A Dose of Nature: Stakeholder Perspectives on Nature-Based Social Prescriptions

Chen, Xinyue : University of Alberta

• Identifying the Mechanisms behind the Relationship between Voter Turnout and Adolescent Mental Health: Are Public Health Funding and School Connectedness Mediators?

Chen, Ying : The University of Hong Kong

• Acute Stress Responses and Mental Health Impacts: Rapid Evidence from the Deadly Tai Po Fire in Hong Kong

Cheng, Chung-Yen : Department of Geography, Durham University

• Is Holistic Medicine Liberating for Women? A Place-Based Approach to the Gender Question in Taiwan and Northeast England

Cheng, Yang : Beijing Normal University

• A Geospatial Study of Environmental Exposures, Healthcare Accessibility, and Maternal Health Utilizing Electronic Medical Records in Wuhan, China

Cheung, Venus : Toronto Metropolitan University

• A Mixed Qualitative Approach to Understand Top-Down and Bottom-Up Food Systems Planning

Chmiel, Brooke : McMaster University

• Building carer-inclusive workplaces across Canada: Evaluating the uptake of standardized workplace policies

Cho, Beomyoung : University of Tennessee

• Spatial Optimization Approach for Assessing Spatial Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Access

Chong, Adrianna : School of Nursing, University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages

Chong, Daniel : Daily School Route

• The CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative: Partnering for Active School Transportation in Hamilton, Ontario, Integrating Learnings from Helsinki, Finland

Christoforou, Ella : Swansea University

• The association between long-term air pollution exposure and suicide mortality during adolescence: a population-based retrospective longitudinal cohort study

Chrobak, Grzegorz : Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences

• Sport as Crisis Infrastructure: Displacement, Governance, and Belonging Amid a Humanitarian Crisis

Chua, Regina : University of Canterbury

• Systematic Review of the Geospatial Risk Factors of Parkinson's Disease

Chum, Antony : York University

• To what extent do patterns of IPV-related emergency department visits differ across sexual orientations, and do these disparities vary by sex?
• Geographic Patterns of Domestic Violence and Abuse: Sexual Orientation Disparities in Ontario
• Geographies of Housing Insecurity: Equity Transitions for Gender Diverse Households in Canada
• Neighbourhood Deprivation Across Gender Identities in Canada: Unequal Place‑Based Transitions for Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults
• Uneven Geographies of Preventable Acute Care: Sexual Orientation Inequities in Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions in Ontario, Canada

Cleave, Evan : Toronto Metropolitan University

• Healthcare Access for Precarious Populations: A spatial analysis of Toronto, Canada
• Social Determinants of Health and MMR Vaccinations in School Children in Windsor-Essex: A Spatial Analysis

Clemens, Tom : University of Edinburgh

• Alcohol outlet density and wholly attributable hospitalisations in Scotland: an individual level follow up study across two time periods
• Woodland interventions for healthier child development.

Clift, Martin J.D : Swansea University

• The association between long-term air pollution exposure and suicide mortality during adolescence: a population-based retrospective longitudinal cohort study

Clougherty, Jane E. : Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

• Paths Forward for Environmental Health: Survey Results

Coen, Stephanie : Department of Geography & Environment, Western University, School of Geography, University of Nottingham

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages
• Participation, Performance, and Potential for Health: Towards Critical Geographies of Health and Sport

Cole, Adam : Ontario Tech University

• Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Accessibility to Cannabis Retailers on Youth Cannabis Use in Canada from 2018 to 2023

Collier, Beth : Wild in the City

• Socio-spatial inequalities in UK urban tree canopy cover

Collins, Patricia : Queen's University

• Power Dynamics in the Implementation of Street Rebalancing Initiatives: Implications for Urban Health Equity

Conradson, David : University of Canterbury, New Zealand

• Extending geographical conceptualisations of health-enhancing environments: cultivating amelioration, new practices and social transformation

Coppella, Leah : Simon Fraser University

• Barriers and Builders to Belonging: Insights from Community Organizations on Supporting Older People Living with HIV in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living in British Columbia’s Fraser Health Region

Corbiere-McNutt, Alicia : McMaster University

• Later-Life Mobility as a Relational Process: Insights from Older Adult Migration Data

Cormack, Adam : The Woodland Trust

• Socio-spatial inequalities in UK urban tree canopy cover

Crifasi, Cassandra : Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Spatial-Temporal Associations between Alcohol Outlet Access and Neighborhood Gun Violence Risk in Washington, D.C.

Crooks, Valorie : Simon Fraser University

• Barriers and Builders to Belonging: Insights from Community Organizations on Supporting Older People Living with HIV in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living in British Columbia’s Fraser Health Region
• A Qualitative Study Exploring People Who Use Drugs’ Understandings of Safety at the Intersection of Built Environments and the Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis
• From Risk to Care: Exploring the Role of the Built Environment in Shaping Overdose Survivability Among People Who Use Drugs in British Columbia: A Qualitative Case Study

Cruikshank, Angus : The University of Western Ontario

• A collaborative geospatial analysis of access to high quality parks with youth in London, Ontario, Canada

Cui, Yuhan : The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Samplıng The Cıty: Revısıtıng The Neıghborhood Effect Averagıng Problem Through The Interplay Between Mobılıty And Socıo-spatıal Contexts

Curriero, Frank : Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Spatial-Temporal Associations between Alcohol Outlet Access and Neighborhood Gun Violence Risk in Washington, D.C.

Curty Pereira, Rodrigo : University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Building consensus for future pandemic readiness through deliberative dialogues on trust in mRNA vaccines
• Water inequities in low-income communities in high- and upper-middle-income countries: a political ecology of wellbeing
• Understanding and operationalizing equity in global health research: a critically reflective analysis of approaches to equity across the Canadian global health ecosystem

Daly, Sonia : Université de Montréal

• Who Shapes Children’s Mobility ? Parent-Child Discrepancies and Urban Environment interactions in Montreal.
• Power Dynamics in the Implementation of Street Rebalancing Initiatives: Implications for Urban Health Equity
• Imagining Ideal School Streets Through Minecraft: A Child-Centred Participatory Mapping Approach

Dang, Emily : University of Waterlooo

• Examining place-based factors that facilitate immigrant settlement outside of gateway cities

Dasgupta, Arunima : University of Connecticut

• Where You Are and Who You Are: Intersectionality and Traces of Health Perceptions Across African American Communities in the U.S.

Davey, Rachel : University of Canberra

• Exploring the impact of neighbourhood social fragmentation on early childhood developmental vulnerability

Davis, Zoe : University of Melbourne

• Neighbourhood social and environmental conditions for children and youth in Canada’s 30 largest cities

De La Cruz, Katrina : Co-investigator

• A Medical Geography and Health Equity Perspective on Women’s Exposure to Bisphenol A

de Leeuw, Evelyne : École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche en santé publique

• Imagining Ideal School Streets Through Minecraft: A Child-Centred Participatory Mapping Approach

Deacon, Leith : University of Guelph

• Is This the New Normal?: The Escalation & Normalization of Emergency Department Closures in Ontario
• “Take Care of the People, the People Take Care of the Business”: Exploring the Municipal Economic Development Role in Rural Wellbeing through Disruption, Recovery, and Resilience
• Local Online Spaces, Rural Wellbeing, and 2SLGBTQ+ Exclusion: Rethinking Digital Geographies of Health in Rural Ontario
• Beyond Service Deserts: Mapping Lived Healthcare Landscapes in Rural Ontario Using Survey and GIS Methods

Dean, Jennifer : University of Waterloo

• Are we working together or alone? An assessment of healthy city/community practice in Ontario, Canada
• Unpacking constructions of time in wellbeing imaginaries: Competing narratives of the future among diverse newcomers and small cities in Canada
• Examining place-based factors that facilitate immigrant settlement outside of gateway cities

Dearn, Elroy : Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University

• Building Better: Neighbourhoods to benefit children with disability

Dearn, Trish : Yellow Door Kids

• Building Better: Neighbourhoods to benefit children with disability

DeJohn, Amber : Florida State University

• Migration across the life course and adaptations to extreme heat
• Negotiating Mobility: Methodological Insights from Older Adults' Activity Diaries

Del Rosario, Lauren : The University of Sydney

• Incorporating nature in walkability indices

Delamater, Paul : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• The changing geography of vaccination uptake in Calfornia, US
• Identifying spatial patterns of travel behavior responses to heatwaves using high- resolution cell phone mobility data in North Carolina​

Delgado, Adrian : School of Nursing, University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages

Deng, Susie : Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

• Construction of a multidimensional, longitudinal, lived-experience-informed geographic index of social environmental determinants in England

Dennett, Adam : University College London (UCL)

• A Geospatial Analysis of Clustering of Fast-Food Outlets around Schools in London (UK) and Associations with Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal, Ecological Study

Desjardins, Michael : Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Spatial-Temporal Associations between Alcohol Outlet Access and Neighborhood Gun Violence Risk in Washington, D.C.

DeVerteuil, Geoffrey : cardiff university

• Social geography and health geography: Emerging and missed opportunities

Dhillon, Satveer : University of Waterloo

• Co-producing an innovative social prescribing pilot for individuals living with lupus: A study protocol
• Life-Course Transitions and the Geographies of Health: Macro- and Micro-Level Predictors of Self-Rated Health from Childhood to Adulthood
• Places of life in fear: the necropolitics of violence against children

Diamantidis, Clarissa : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Dibben, Chris : University of Edinburgh

• Association between neighbourhood greenspace availability and the development of multiple long-term conditions, a follow-up study in urban areas of Scotland

Dickin, Sarah : Uppsala University

• Women, water and building back better: a case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa
• Beyond planetary boundaries: Towards a geography of planetary health

Dickinson, Katherine : University of Colorado Anschutz

• Beyond Home Loss: Exploration of Physical Health Pathways for Residents of Smoke-Damaged versus Destroyed Homes after a WUI Fire

Dickson-Gomez, Julia : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Dimova, Elena : Glasgow Caledonian University

• Alcohol outlet density and wholly attributable hospitalisations in Scotland: an individual level follow up study across two time periods

Discenza, Catherine : University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Beyond the Clinical: Developing an Ontology for Community-Level Social Determinants of Health

Dixon, Jenna : University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Understanding and operationalizing equity in global health research: a critically reflective analysis of approaches to equity across the Canadian global health ecosystem

Do, Anna : Department of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Identifying community neighbourhood digital places on Instagram and Facebook, a case study from city of Hamilton
• Neighbourhood Resilience Planning via Participatory Mapping with Renters in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dodd, Warren : University of Waterloo

• Determinants of Awareness and Use of HIV Self-Test Kits Among Men in Three African Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study
• Characterizing the health impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) across the life course: An umbrella review
• Women, water and building back better: a case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa

Dodge, Janine : Queen's University

• Re-imagining the Sandbox: Playfulness, Place, and Social Connection in Later Life

Dogra, Harsimran : Toronto Metropolitan University, CHANGE Research Lab, DEPtH Lab

• Climate Care Toronto: Digital Citizen Science for Equitable Climate Action, Health, and Urban Futures
• DiScO: Reimagining Real Time Public Health Crises Response through Human Centred AI and Digital Transformation

Dorkenoo, Selasi : Toronto Metropolitan University

• Improving the health care landscape of early pregnancy emergency care: A qualitative GIS approach

Driedger, Michelle : University of Manitoba

• “I had to load up a car full of people to get tested”: Rural and Remote Red River Metis experiences of COVID-19

Drysdale, Alice : Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter

• Socio-spatial inequalities in UK urban tree canopy cover

DuBois, Tesla : Temple University, Department of Geography, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jefferson Health

• Responsible GeoAI for Cancer Research: Synthesizing GeoAI and CancerAI with a Case Study of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

Dufour, Isabelle : Sherbrooke University

• Potential Spatial Accessibility to Primary Health Care in The Province of Quebec Over Time: Associations with Gentrification
• Conceptualizing Healthcare Gentrification: Results From a Scoping Review

Duke-Williams, Oliver : UCL

• Shepherds and Shopkeepers: Homeworking and health in the Covid-19 Lockdown

Dunn, James : McMaster University

• A Strategic Implementation Framework for Affordable Housing in Hamilton, Ontario

Dupéré, Sophie : Laval University

• Potential Spatial Accessibility to Primary Health Care in The Province of Quebec Over Time: Associations with Gentrification
• Conceptualizing Healthcare Gentrification: Results From a Scoping Review

Dzakuma, Drumond : University at Buffalo

• Access Without Arrival: Rethinking Health Equity Through the Geography of Deferred Care

Early, Regan : Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter

• Socio-spatial inequalities in UK urban tree canopy cover

Eddy, Tasma : Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University

• Building Better: Neighbourhoods to benefit children with disability

Eggleton, Phoebe : GeoHealth Laboratory & Geospatial Research Institute, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

• Beyond Residence: Rethinking Environmental Exposure Assessment in Health Geography Using Mobile Phone Location Data
• Mental wellbeing and loneliness in Aotearoa, New Zealand: A spatial microsimulation approach

Ehi, Gwen : York University

• Geographic Patterns of Domestic Violence and Abuse: Sexual Orientation Disparities in Ontario
• Geographies of Housing Insecurity: Equity Transitions for Gender Diverse Households in Canada
• Uneven Geographies of Preventable Acute Care: Sexual Orientation Inequities in Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions in Ontario, Canada

El-Geneidy, Ahmed : McGill University

• Measuring the Impacts of a New Light Rail System on Work Performance and Health Outcomes in the Greater Montréal Region

Eliot, Emmanuel : Université de Rouen-Normandie

• Using agent-based simulation to reconstruct historical disease landscapes,: the example of malaria in Cyprus

Elliott, Susan : University of Waterloo

• Co-producing an innovative social prescribing pilot for individuals living with lupus: A study protocol
• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• Life-Course Transitions and the Geographies of Health: Macro- and Micro-Level Predictors of Self-Rated Health from Childhood to Adulthood
• Understanding Climate-Health Intersections: Embodied Political Ecology of Health and Wellbeing
• A Dose of Nature: Stakeholder Perspectives on Nature-Based Social Prescriptions
• Water inequities in low-income communities in high- and upper-middle-income countries: a political ecology of wellbeing
• Understanding and operationalizing equity in global health research: a critically reflective analysis of approaches to equity across the Canadian global health ecosystem
• Characterizing the health impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) across the life course: An umbrella review
• A Relational Approach to Food Security: Participatory Research With Youth in Western Kenya
• Women, water and building back better: a case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa

Elliott, Susan J. : University of Waterloo

• Reflecting on a decade of health and medical geography: A systematic review
• Places of life in fear: the necropolitics of violence against children

Ellis-Davies, Kate : Swansea University

• Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and Preterm Birth in Wales: A Population-Scale Cohort Study

Emch, Michael : University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

• Ecology and Evolution of Swine Influenza in the United States
• Spatiotemporal Determinants and Unintended Consequences of Inequitable Safe Drinking-Water Access in Rural Bangladesh
• Ecological drivers of swine influenza H3N2 transmission in the USA: a phylogeographic approach

Emslie, Carol : Glasgow Caledonian University

• Alcohol outlet density and wholly attributable hospitalisations in Scotland: an individual level follow up study across two time periods

Espinoza Suarez, Nataly : Université Laval

• Conceptualizing Healthcare Gentrification: Results From a Scoping Review

Esposito, Michael : University of Minnesota

• Advancing Life Course Cognability: Investigating Neighborhoods, Cognitive Health Behaviors, and Dementia Risk

Everhart, Avery : University of British Columbia, Department of Geography

• Geographic Access to Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Across Major US Metropolitan Areas
• Pathways to Trans Care: Travel Patterns, Information Seeking & Geographic Access to Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy

Fagherazzi, Guy : Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH)

• Challenges in using fully-automated GEMA survey with online recruitment - Insights from the FragMent study on environmental determinants of stress

Falkenberg, Timo : University Bonn, UKB, Institute for Hygiene and Public Heath, GeoHealth Centre

• Positive and Negative Health Effects of Urban Biodiversity: Assessment in urban green spaces in Cologne and Bonn, Germany

Fancello, Giovanna : Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Equipe Nemesis, Paris, France

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Fath (Sandborn), Hilary : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Comparative evaluation of COVID-19 hospital admission models with and without population health information

Fatima, Munazza : The Islamia University Bahawalpur

• A Comprehensive Scoping Review on Smart City and Mental Health Historical Evolution, Developments, and Future Directions
• Geographical Variations in the Prevalence and Determinants of Severe Underweight Children Under Five in Pakistan: A Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis

Fattah, Md. Abdul : Florida State University

• Migration across the life course and adaptations to extreme heat

Feick, Rob : University of Waterloo

• Neighbourhood Resilience Planning via Participatory Mapping with Renters in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Feng, Xiaoqi : The University of New South Wales

• Incorporating nature in walkability indices

Feng, Xin (Selena) : University of Oklahoma

• Spatial Optimization for Equitable PrEP Access: Comparing HIV Testing Site Adaptation and New Provider Siting in Atlanta

Fenn, Larissa : Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority

• Jurisdictions in Response to Public Health Emergencies from the Burlington Skyway Bridge: A Collaboration between the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority and Brock University

Ferguson, Kendra : Department of Geography & Environment, Western University

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages

Ferguson, Mark : European Centre for Environment & Human Health, University of Exeter

• Socio-spatial inequalities in UK urban tree canopy cover

Finlay, Jessica : University of Colorado Boulder

• “It’s Not Top Of Mind”: Emerging adults’ views of neighborhoods and cognitive aging
• Beyond Home Loss: Exploration of Physical Health Pathways for Residents of Smoke-Damaged versus Destroyed Homes after a WUI Fire
• Advancing Life Course Cognability: Investigating Neighborhoods, Cognitive Health Behaviors, and Dementia Risk

Fisher, Victoria : Michigan State University

• Sprawling Out: Extending Research on Links between Urban Form and Health to Consider Additional Metropolitan Characteristics

Fleuret, Sebastien : ESO-University of Angers

• Vulnerabilities in Touristic Areas (VITA) : Mental health and the development of tourism in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Foley, Ronan : Maynooth University, Ireland

• Trace and the Sanitorium: Assembling a Hydro-Relational Geography

Forbes, Abbey : McMaster University

• Caregiving as a Human Right

Ford, Allison : University of Stirling

• Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024

Friemel, Thomas : Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

• Digging the digital - A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Digital Data Donations and Geospatial Methods in Neuromuscular Disease Research

Fry, Rich : Swansea University

• Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and Preterm Birth in Wales: A Population-Scale Cohort Study
• Disentangling the ‘coastal effect’: A population-scale joint modelling analysis of melanoma risk and ambient sunshine in Wales
• The association between long-term air pollution exposure and suicide mortality during adolescence: a population-based retrospective longitudinal cohort study

Gadri, Mandela : University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Beyond the Clinical: Developing an Ontology for Community-Level Social Determinants of Health

Gaither, Claudia : University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

• Ecology and Evolution of Swine Influenza in the United States
• Ecological drivers of swine influenza H3N2 transmission in the USA: a phylogeographic approach

Garrett, Camrin : University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Beyond the Clinical: Developing an Ontology for Community-Level Social Determinants of Health

Gbadamosi, Faithwin : University at Buffalo

• Environmental Change and Spatial Patterns of Vegetation Disturbance Related to Artisanal Refining in the Niger Delta

Ge, Haoxuan Peter : University of Toronto, University of Toronto Mississauga

• Investigating the Relationship Between Psychological Stress and Physical Activity through Individual-Based Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment

Gerber, Philippe : Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

• Challenges in using fully-automated GEMA survey with online recruitment - Insights from the FragMent study on environmental determinants of stress

Gericke, Chiara : University College London (UCL)

• A Geospatial Analysis of Clustering of Fast-Food Outlets around Schools in London (UK) and Associations with Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal, Ecological Study

Ghanem, Ibrahim : Department of Geography and Geomatics, UTM

• Measuring the Unmeasured: Investigation of Perceived Neighbourhood Walkability and Adaptation of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Survey (NEWS) for Racialized Communities in Canada

Ghosh, Debarchana : University of Connecticut

• A critical analysis of barriers and facilitators in accessing healthcare among transgender and gender diverse people in urban India
• Where You Are and Who You Are: Intersectionality and Traces of Health Perceptions Across African American Communities in the U.S.
• Science, Interrupted: Anxiety, Adaptation, and an NIH Grant Renewal
• Residential segregation, housing cost, and smoking behaviors in Black Americans

Gilligan, Jonathan : Vanderbilt University

• Integrated Geospatial Framework for Equitable PFAS Contamination Response in Community Water Systems

Gilliland, Jason : The University of Western Ontario

• A collaborative geospatial analysis of access to high quality parks with youth in London, Ontario, Canada
• Additive, Compensation, or Spillover? A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Contribution of Active School Travel to Children’s Weekly Physical Activity
• Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Accessibility to Cannabis Retailers on Youth Cannabis Use in Canada from 2018 to 2023
• Bounded Mobilities: Exploring Adolescents’ Mobility Habits and Constraints in High-Rise Urban Environments

Giovenco, Daniel : Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

• Identifying barriers and facilitators to the implementation of zoning policies to equitably reduce neighborhood tobacco retailer availability

Girum, Laila : Department of Geography & Environment, Western University

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages

Gizaw, Zemichael : Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan

• Climate Change and Waterborne Diseases in Temperate Regions: A Systematic Review

Global Health Research Team, OPEN : University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Understanding and operationalizing equity in global health research: a critically reflective analysis of approaches to equity across the Canadian global health ecosystem

Goel, Varun : University of South Carolina

• Ecology and Evolution of Swine Influenza in the United States
• Spatiotemporal Determinants and Unintended Consequences of Inequitable Safe Drinking-Water Access in Rural Bangladesh
• The Uneven Malaria Burden of Floods: Spatial Heterogeneity in Flood-Driven Malaria Risk across Tanzania

Gómez, Myrriah : University of New Mexico

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Gonzales, Raven : 1. Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University, Canada

• Problematic Social Media Use, Loneliness, and Neighbourhood Social Cohesion: A study of Canadian Adolescents

Gosselin, Veronique : Université de Montréal

• Power Dynamics in the Implementation of Street Rebalancing Initiatives: Implications for Urban Health Equity

Gruebner, Oliver : University of Lucerne

• A Comprehensive Scoping Review on Smart City and Mental Health Historical Evolution, Developments, and Future Directions
• Digging the digital - A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Digital Data Donations and Geospatial Methods in Neuromuscular Disease Research
• Identifying community neighbourhood digital places on Instagram and Facebook, a case study from city of Hamilton
• Neighbourhood Resilience Planning via Participatory Mapping with Renters in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Guetterman, PhD, Timothy : University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

• Cross-sectional correlations between county-level flooding and incidence of flood-related diagnoses
• Visualizing the location and utilization of health resource vending machines as part of an opioid overdose intervention through a local health department

Guhlincozzi, Aída : University of Missouri

• Community Mapping of the pediatric autism diagnosis to services journey: a power analysis for identifying systemic barriers to care in Columbia, MO
• Insurance Literacy as a Global Barrier to Care: Insights from a U.S. Case Study

Guo, Longhao : Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

• Spatial Accessibility to Hemodialysis Centers and Chronic Kidney Disease Disparities Across Racial/Ethnic Compositions in Houston, Texas

Guthrie, Bruce : University of Edinburgh

• Association between neighbourhood greenspace availability and the development of multiple long-term conditions, a follow-up study in urban areas of Scotland

Hall, Ed : University of Dundee

• Cripping care: reimagining the landscape of disability care and support

Hamid, Asiya : Scottish Centre for Social Research

• Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024

Harris, Alan : Michigan State University

• Charting the Evolution of a County EMS System through Service Privatization: A Probable Case of Hotelling’s Law

Hart, Colton : Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre

• Reclaiming Urban Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Navigating Relational Methodologies in Community-Academic Partnerships

Hart-Thompson, Hayes : University of Colorado Boulder

• “It’s Not Top Of Mind”: Emerging adults’ views of neighborhoods and cognitive aging
• Claiming Epistemic Ground: Immigrant Youth-Led Spatial Inquiry Framework at the Intersection of Education and Health Geographies in Boston
• Advancing Life Course Cognability: Investigating Neighborhoods, Cognitive Health Behaviors, and Dementia Risk

Hartono, susan : University of Canberra

• Exploring the impact of neighbourhood social fragmentation on early childhood developmental vulnerability

Harvey, Heather : City of Hamilton

• The CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative: Partnering for Active School Transportation in Hamilton, Ontario, Integrating Learnings from Helsinki, Finland

Hass, Fiona : University of California, Santa Barbara

• Reproductive Health across the Life Course: Linking Early Menarche to Disease

Hegarty, Justin : Reflo

• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Henry, Kevin : Temple University, Fox Chase Cancer Center

• Associations between Long-Term Residential Exposure to Historical Redlining and High-Poverty and Prostate Cancer Stage at Diagnosis.
• Responsible GeoAI for Cancer Research: Synthesizing GeoAI and CancerAI with a Case Study of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

Heo, Seulkee : Yale School of the Environment

• Paths Forward for Environmental Health: Survey Results

Hewitt, Christopher : University of Western Ontario, Canada

• Identifying community neighbourhood digital places on Instagram and Facebook, a case study from city of Hamilton
• Neighbourhood Resilience Planning via Participatory Mapping with Renters in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Hildago, Julia : Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités Sociétés Territoires (LISST), CNRS, Toulouse, France

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Hill, Allison : University of Iowa

• Individual and Community Determinants of Adolescent HPV Vaccination in Iowa

Hills, Samuel : Bournemouth University

• Association between air temperature and unintentional drowning risk in the United Kingdom 2012-2019: a geospatial nationwide case-crossover study
• The water incident database (WAID) 2012 to 2019: a systematic evaluation of the documenting of UK drownings

Hirni, Megan : University of Missouri, Educational, School & Counseling Psychology

• Insurance Literacy as a Global Barrier to Care: Insights from a U.S. Case Study

Hobbs, Matthew : University of Canterbury

• Association between air temperature and unintentional drowning risk in the United Kingdom 2012-2019: a geospatial nationwide case-crossover study
• The water incident database (WAID) 2012 to 2019: a systematic evaluation of the documenting of UK drownings

Hoh, Nicole : University of Toronto Department of Geography and Planning

• Impacts of the built environment, seasonality, and transport on commuting mode choice and health in university students

Holmes, Martin : University of Toronto

• Food Environments and the Geography of Disadvantage: Examining Regional Differences in Canadian Retail Access

Holtge, Jan : Resilience Research Centre, Dalhousie University

• Flourishing Youth (FLY) Zones - A Population Health Framework for Identifying and Studying Place-Based Youth Well-being

Home, Philip : University of Nottingham

• The Diminishing Returns of Greenness: A Spatially Adjusted Temporal Analysis of Taxon-Specific Biodiversity and Community Mental Health

Horner, Mark : Florida State University

• Migration across the life course and adaptations to extreme heat

Huang, Xin : Southern University of Science and Technology

• Extreme Weather Triggers Cascading Disruptions Across Ambulance Response Stages
• Compound Temperature-humidity Extremes Increase Acute Mental Health Outcomes: A 12-year Case-crossover Metropolitan Study
• Development and Validation of a Machine Learning based Site Selection Model for Primary Healthcare Facilities in Metropolitan China

Hugonnier, Jérémy : Université de Sherbrooke

• Neighbourhood revitalization, changes in housing, and young adult health and well-being: insights from go-along interviews in Sherbrooke, Canada

Hurst, Patricia : Brock University

• Jurisdictions in Response to Public Health Emergencies from the Burlington Skyway Bridge: A Collaboration between the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority and Brock University

Hylton-Pelaia, Jayda : Ontario Tech University

• Supporting Girls’ Sport Participation: Development and Evaluation of an Evidence-Informed Parental Digital Toolkit

Ienciu, Kristine : York University

• Geographic Patterns of Domestic Violence and Abuse: Sexual Orientation Disparities in Ontario
• Geographies of Housing Insecurity: Equity Transitions for Gender Diverse Households in Canada
• Uneven Geographies of Preventable Acute Care: Sexual Orientation Inequities in Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions in Ontario, Canada

Iqbal, Zafar : Peer Research Assistant

• Medical Uncertainty, Structural Inequities and Disease: The Experiences of Long-COVID Among Racialized Immigrants and Racialized Non-Immigrants in Canada

Isham, Amy : Swansea University

• Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and Preterm Birth in Wales: A Population-Scale Cohort Study

Ishaque, Ali : University of Maryland - Eastern Shore

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Ishimaru, Tomona : University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences

• Spatial Clustering Patterns of Short-Stay Care Services in Designated Cities in Japan

Islam, Md Sirajul : International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Spatiotemporal Determinants and Unintended Consequences of Inequitable Safe Drinking-Water Access in Rural Bangladesh

Iwas, Tanya : Department of Geography & Environment, Western University

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages

Iyer, Sindhuja : McMaster University

• The Healing Home Project: Inclusive Therapeutic Design to Support Mental Health of South Asian Elders in GTA Retirement Homes

Jackson, Rebecca E : University of Nottingham

• Participation, Performance, and Potential for Health: Towards Critical Geographies of Health and Sport

Jamal, Sherin : Fraser Health Authority

• Barriers and Builders to Belonging: Insights from Community Organizations on Supporting Older People Living with HIV in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living in British Columbia’s Fraser Health Region

James, Alexandra : University of Missouri

• Community Mapping of the pediatric autism diagnosis to services journey: a power analysis for identifying systemic barriers to care in Columbia, MO

Janikowski, Courtney : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Januel, Edouard : Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Equipe PEPITES, Hôpital Fondation A. de Rothschild, Neurology Department and Clinical Research Unit, Paris, France

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Jayashankaramma Shankar raj, Mohan Raju : University Medical Centre, Amsterdam

• Mapping the retail food environment at high resolution across Europe

Jebuni, Julius : School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University, Canada

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• Exploring the intersections of climate change, Indigenous food systems, and gendered adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review

Jerrett, Michael : University of California, Los Angeles

• Exposure Reconstruction for Environmental Health Research

Jewett, Ray : University of Toronto

• Designing a Framework for Measuring Equitable Access to Health Services

Jewitt, Sarah : University of Nottingham

• Participation, Performance, and Potential for Health: Towards Critical Geographies of Health and Sport

jha, Pinky : Medical college of wisconsin

• Scorching Inequality: Occupational Heat Stress and Kidney Injury Among Nepali Migrant Workers

John, Ann : Swansea University

• The association between long-term air pollution exposure and suicide mortality during adolescence: a population-based retrospective longitudinal cohort study

Johnson, Paul : Vanderbilt University

• Integrated Geospatial Framework for Equitable PFAS Contamination Response in Community Water Systems

Jungbluth, Julia : Research Center for Public, Planetary and Digital Health (P²D), IU International University of Applied Sciences

• Therapeutic Landscapes Between Meaning and Measurement

Jurkus, Meya : School of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

• A Qualitative Study Exploring People Who Use Drugs’ Understandings of Safety at the Intersection of Built Environments and the Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis
• From Risk to Care: Exploring the Role of the Built Environment in Shaping Overdose Survivability Among People Who Use Drugs in British Columbia: A Qualitative Case Study

Kaburia, Joan : University of Waterloo

• A Relational Approach to Food Security: Participatory Research With Youth in Western Kenya

Kafle, Birat : Temple University

• Associations between Long-Term Residential Exposure to Historical Redlining and High-Poverty and Prostate Cancer Stage at Diagnosis.

Kahl, Amanda : University of Iowa

• Individual and Community Determinants of Adolescent HPV Vaccination in Iowa

Kampman, Halie : Pennsylvania State University

• Responsibilizing Health and the Changing States of Care

Kandlakuti, Bhargav : Department of Geography & Environment, Western University

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages

Kangmennaang, Joseph : Queen's University

• ‘We did not know stroke, and we also did not know ulcers’: A qualitative study of perceived health impacts of food systems globalization on smallholder farmers in northern Ghana
• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• Exploring the intersections of climate change, Indigenous food systems, and gendered adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review
• Coping with non-communicable diseases in a changing climate: A mixed methods study of coping strategies of smallholder farmers living with non-communicable diseases in northern Ghana
• Women, water and building back better: a case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa

Karanja, Diana : COHESU

• Women, water and building back better: a case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa

Katapally, Tarun Reddy : University of Western Ontario

• DiScO: Reimagining Real Time Public Health Crises Response through Human Centred AI and Digital Transformation
• Impacts of Climate Change in Rural Pune, India: Qualitative Findings from the Climate Care India initiative

Katende, Dan : Uganda Harm Reduction Network

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Kearns, Robin : University of Auckland

• Traces and spaces: the past’s presence on the quarantine islands of Aotearoa’s archipelago

Keenan, Katherine : University of St Andrews

• Association between neighbourhood greenspace availability and the development of multiple long-term conditions, a follow-up study in urban areas of Scotland

Keith, Scott : Jefferson University

• Associations between Long-Term Residential Exposure to Historical Redlining and High-Poverty and Prostate Cancer Stage at Diagnosis.

Kempski, Alice : The Football Association

• Participation, Performance, and Potential for Health: Towards Critical Geographies of Health and Sport

Khadilkar, Anuradha : Hirabai Cowasji Medical Research Institute

• Impacts of Climate Change in Rural Pune, India: Qualitative Findings from the Climate Care India initiative

Khan, Wania : McMaster University

• The Invisible Toll: Women's Caregiving and the Hidden Labour of Enduring Climate

Khurana, Mishika : Toronto Metropolitan University

• Healthcare Access for Precarious Populations: A spatial analysis of Toronto, Canada

Kiconco, Arthur : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Kiely, Ed : Queen Mary University of London

• Care in Crisis: Involuntary psychiatric detention as a violent practice of care

Kim, Hyun : University of Tennessee

• Spatial Optimization Approach for Assessing Spatial Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Access

Kim, Rebekah : Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis

King, Brian : Pennsylvania State University

• The Financialization and Digitalization of Opioid Treatment
• Responsibilizing Health and the Changing States of Care

King, Nathan : 3. Department of Psychiatry, Queen’s University, Canada, 4. Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Canada

• Problematic Social Media Use, Loneliness, and Neighbourhood Social Cohesion: A study of Canadian Adolescents

Kintigh, Bethany : Iowa Department of Health & Human Services

• Individual and Community Determinants of Adolescent HPV Vaccination in Iowa

Kirkpatrick, Sharon : University of Waterloo

• Food Environments and the Geography of Disadvantage: Examining Regional Differences in Canadian Retail Access

Kis, Anne : HafenCity University, Hamburg

• The Built Environment in Obesity Prevention - A Map-Based Approach to Improve Health Equity

Kish, Antonia : University of Canberra

• Exploring the impact of neighbourhood social fragmentation on early childhood developmental vulnerability

Klassen, Ann : Drexel University

• Associations between Long-Term Residential Exposure to Historical Redlining and High-Poverty and Prostate Cancer Stage at Diagnosis.

Klein, Olivier : Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

• Challenges in using fully-automated GEMA survey with online recruitment - Insights from the FragMent study on environmental determinants of stress

Klein, Sylvain : Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

• Challenges in using fully-automated GEMA survey with online recruitment - Insights from the FragMent study on environmental determinants of stress

Kloss, Olena : Manitoba Metis Federation

• “I had to load up a car full of people to get tested”: Rural and Remote Red River Metis experiences of COVID-19

Kocbach Bølling, Anette : Norwegian Institute of Public Health

• Burden of disease from road traffic noise and associations with socioeconomic marginalization in Toronto, Canada

Kolak, Marynia : University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Beyond the Clinical: Developing an Ontology for Community-Level Social Determinants of Health
• Design and Community Engagement in Spatial Web-Based Applications for Public Health: A Web Mapping Application Evaluation Framework

Kong, Amanda : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• Identifying barriers and facilitators to the implementation of zoning policies to equitably reduce neighborhood tobacco retailer availability
• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Konkor, Irenius : School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo

• Trust and Zoonotic Disease Surveillance Among Nomadic Pastoralists in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Scoping Review
• Determinants of Awareness and Use of HIV Self-Test Kits Among Men in Three African Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study

Kreidler, Nicole : West Virginia University

• Home as Therapeutic Landscape: The Role of Residential Environments in Healing

Kristensen, Kathleen : University of Illinois Chicago

• Housing Instability and Transitions Among People Who Inject Drugs in Chicago and Surrounding Suburbs: A Hidden Markov Model Analysis

Krügel, Falko : Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Chair of Geoinformatics, Technical University Dresden

• Therapeutic Landscapes Between Meaning and Measurement

Krzywania, Monika : PhD Candidate, University of Northern British Columbia

• Blizzards, boom and bust cycles, and… babies? How physical and cultural geographies of northern Ontario shape regional perinatal health inequities.

Kwan, Mei-Po : The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Samplıng The Cıty: Revısıtıng The Neıghborhood Effect Averagıng Problem Through The Interplay Between Mobılıty And Socıo-spatıal Contexts

L. Frohlich, Katherine : Université de Montréal

• Who Shapes Children’s Mobility ? Parent-Child Discrepancies and Urban Environment interactions in Montreal.
• Power Dynamics in the Implementation of Street Rebalancing Initiatives: Implications for Urban Health Equity
• Imagining Ideal School Streets Through Minecraft: A Child-Centred Participatory Mapping Approach

Lafreniere, Don : Michigan Technological University

• Sprawling Out: Extending Research on Links between Urban Form and Health to Consider Additional Metropolitan Characteristics

Lakerveld, Dr. Jeroen : University Medical Centre, Amsterdam

• Mapping the retail food environment at high resolution across Europe

Lakshman, Maya : Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Vicious Terrain and the Production of Premature Death: Validating a Structural Violence Index in Necropolitical Geographies

Landwehr, Andre : University of Hamburg

• The Built Environment in Obesity Prevention - A Map-Based Approach to Improve Health Equity

Larson, Trent : North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Lartey, Benjamin Nii Badu : Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

• A Qualitative Study Exploring People Who Use Drugs’ Understandings of Safety at the Intersection of Built Environments and the Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis
• From Risk to Care: Exploring the Role of the Built Environment in Shaping Overdose Survivability Among People Who Use Drugs in British Columbia: A Qualitative Case Study

Laughlin, Sarah : University of Colorado Boulder

• Beyond Home Loss: Exploration of Physical Health Pathways for Residents of Smoke-Damaged versus Destroyed Homes after a WUI Fire

Lawson, Erica : Western University

• Multisectoral Approach to Managing Disease Outbreaks in Post-Conflict Settings: The Ebola situation in Liberia

Layden, Daniel : University of Guelph

• Local Online Spaces, Rural Wellbeing, and 2SLGBTQ+ Exclusion: Rethinking Digital Geographies of Health in Rural Ontario
• Beyond Service Deserts: Mapping Lived Healthcare Landscapes in Rural Ontario Using Survey and GIS Methods

Leatherdale, Scott : University of Waterloo

• Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Accessibility to Cannabis Retailers on Youth Cannabis Use in Canada from 2018 to 2023

Lee, Minyong : North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Leroux, Janette : School of Kinesiology & Health Studies, Queen's University

• Down the drain: A feminist framing analysis of public washrooms in Canadian news media during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Policy imagination in health policy education: a SoTL study of critique and possibility

Levasseur, Mélanie : Univeristé de Sherbrooke

• How are public participation processes experienced in the context of urban regeneration initiatives? A descriptive interpretive qualitative study.

Levitskaya, Elena : York University

• To what extent do patterns of IPV-related emergency department visits differ across sexual orientations, and do these disparities vary by sex?

Lewis, Shaniqua : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Lewkowitz, Shawna : The University of Western Ontario

• A collaborative geospatial analysis of access to high quality parks with youth in London, Ontario, Canada

Li, Chunjiang : University of Toronto

• Contextualized urban food environment research

Li, CONGPING : university of toronto

• Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Urban Amenity Accessibility and Its Lagged Effects on Long-Term Mental Well-Being: A Case Study of Mississauga, Canada

Li, Meifang : Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

• Integrating Long-Term Residential Histories into Environmental Epidemiology: A Spatiotemporal Approach to ALS and Airborne Lead Exposure

Li, Tianyu : The University of Hong Kong

• Acute Stress Responses and Mental Health Impacts: Rapid Evidence from the Deadly Tai Po Fire in Hong Kong

Li, Wenwen : Arizona State University

• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility in the United States across scales: a geospatial analysis by different transportation modes

Lin, Qi : Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

• Quantifying Causal Effect of Extreme Heat on Dog Bite Incidents in New York City: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Community Vulnerability

Lin, Qinyun : University of Gothenburg

• Measuring Differential Exposure, Susceptibility, & Adaptability as Dimensions of Vulnerability for U.S. Counties Across the Pandemic

Lin, Zihan : Cleveland State University

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Liu, Bochu : Tongji University

• Contextualized urban food environment research
• Socioeconomic inequalities in online fresh food delivery use and associations with the neighborhood food environment

Liu, Chang : Nanjing University

• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility in the United States across scales: a geospatial analysis by different transportation modes

Liu, Chuhao : The University of Tokyo

• Socioeconomic inequalities in online fresh food delivery use and associations with the neighborhood food environment

Llewellyn, Clare : University College London (UCL)

• A Geospatial Analysis of Clustering of Fast-Food Outlets around Schools in London (UK) and Associations with Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal, Ecological Study

Lo, Ryan : Urban Minds

• Bounded Mobilities: Exploring Adolescents’ Mobility Habits and Constraints in High-Rise Urban Environments

Loftus, Rachel : University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Beyond the Clinical: Developing an Ontology for Community-Level Social Determinants of Health

Loignon, Christine : Sherbrooke University

• Gentrification and young adults in a mid-size Canadian city: how does it shape young adult mental health?
• Potential Spatial Accessibility to Primary Health Care in The Province of Quebec Over Time: Associations with Gentrification
• Conceptualizing Healthcare Gentrification: Results From a Scoping Review

Lovell, Sarah : University of Canterbury

• The disutility of health reform? Leaders’ responses to change in an over-constrained system

Luan, Hui : University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility in the United States across scales: a geospatial analysis by different transportation modes
• Spatial Optimization for Equitable PrEP Access: Comparing HIV Testing Site Adaptation and New Provider Siting in Atlanta

Luginaah, Isaac : Western University

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• Misconceptions and Misdiagnosis of Hypertension: Comparing and Contrasting the Determinants of Self-Reported and Measured Hypertension
• Multisectoral Approach to Managing Disease Outbreaks in Post-Conflict Settings: The Ebola situation in Liberia
• HIV Anti-Stigma Empowerment Readiness Among Service Providers in Canada: A Post-intervention Assessment of Sustained Impact
• Coping with non-communicable diseases in a changing climate: A mixed methods study of coping strategies of smallholder farmers living with non-communicable diseases in northern Ghana

Lunel, Nathan : Sherbrooke University

• Potential Spatial Accessibility to Primary Health Care in The Province of Quebec Over Time: Associations with Gentrification

Luy Tan, Emily : Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

• Integrating Long-Term Residential Histories into Environmental Epidemiology: A Spatiotemporal Approach to ALS and Airborne Lead Exposure

Lyeo, Joonsoo : McMaster University

• Understanding the place of urban nature in the therapeutic landscapes literature: A scoping review
• Using a Gaming Intervention to Increase Awareness of and Therapeutic Benefits from Urban Nature
• Perceptions of Polar Regions as Therapeutic Landscapes: A Qualitative Exploration

Lynch, Shannon : Fox Chase Cancer Center

• Responsible GeoAI for Cancer Research: Synthesizing GeoAI and CancerAI with a Case Study of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

Lyu, Yilin : University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Beyond the Clinical: Developing an Ontology for Community-Level Social Determinants of Health

MacGregor, Andy : Scottish Centre for Social Research

• Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024

Mackesy-Amiti, Mary Ellen : University of Illinois Chicago

• Housing Instability and Transitions Among People Who Inject Drugs in Chicago and Surrounding Suburbs: A Hidden Markov Model Analysis

Mackintosh, Anne Marie : University of Stirling

• Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024

Macklean, Kyomya : Alliance of Women Advocating for Change

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Magezi, Resty : Alliance of Women Advocating for Change

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Mah, Sarah M. : University of Vermont

• Capturing Dynamic Neighborhood Exposures and Population Health: A New Application of Vermont’s All-Payer Claims Data

Maier, Ryan : University of Manitoba

• “I had to load up a car full of people to get tested”: Rural and Remote Red River Metis experiences of COVID-19

Mandlik, Rubina : Hirabai Cowasji Medical Research Institute

• Impacts of Climate Change in Rural Pune, India: Qualitative Findings from the Climate Care India initiative

Mang, Shari : Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter

• Socio-spatial inequalities in UK urban tree canopy cover

Mann-Jackson, Lilli : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Mant, Madeleine : University of Toronto Mississauga

• Medical Uncertainty, Structural Inequities and Disease: The Experiences of Long-COVID Among Racialized Immigrants and Racialized Non-Immigrants in Canada

Marek, Lukas : GeoHealth Laboratory & Geospatial Research Institute, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

• Beyond Residence: Rethinking Environmental Exposure Assessment in Health Geography Using Mobile Phone Location Data
• Mental wellbeing and loneliness in Aotearoa, New Zealand: A spatial microsimulation approach

Mariathasan, Azvin : UCL

• Shepherds and Shopkeepers: Homeworking and health in the Covid-19 Lockdown

Marie-Dit-Chirot, Clement : ESO-University of Angers

• Vulnerabilities in Touristic Areas (VITA) : Mental health and the development of tourism in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Marsh, Pauline : University of Tasmania

• Understanding the place of urban nature in the therapeutic landscapes literature: A scoping review

Marshall, Alan : University of Edinburgh

• Association between neighbourhood greenspace availability and the development of multiple long-term conditions, a follow-up study in urban areas of Scotland

Martel, Esther : McMaster University

• Active Commuting and Air Pollution Risk Perception in a Changing Urban Environment: Evidence from Markham, Ontario

Martin, Gina : Athabasca University

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages
• Problematic Social Media Use, Loneliness, and Neighbourhood Social Cohesion: A study of Canadian Adolescents
• Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Accessibility to Cannabis Retailers on Youth Cannabis Use in Canada from 2018 to 2023

Masselot, Pierre : London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Public Health and Policy, London, United Kingdom

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Masson, Valery : Université de Toulouse, CNRM, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Mastrosavvas, Andreas : UCL

• Shepherds and Shopkeepers: Homeworking and health in the Covid-19 Lockdown

MATSUOKA, Yuka : NAGOYA University

• Reform of community care and wellbeing for individuals with mental health problems in Japan

Mavinga, Laurent : TAS Goma

• Trauma, mapepo, and the limits of “treatment gaps” in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

McAnirlin, Olivia : Clemson University

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

McCullough, Emily : School of Kinesiology & Health Science, Faculty of Health, York University

• Down the drain: A feminist framing analysis of public washrooms in Canadian news media during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

McDonald, Yolanda : Vanderbilt University

• Integrated Geospatial Framework for Equitable PFAS Contamination Response in Community Water Systems

McDuffee, Laura : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

McMahon, Claire : University of Missouri

• Community Mapping of the pediatric autism diagnosis to services journey: a power analysis for identifying systemic barriers to care in Columbia, MO

McNair, Christopher : Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jefferson Health

• Responsible GeoAI for Cancer Research: Synthesizing GeoAI and CancerAI with a Case Study of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

Meaney, Mark : Public Health Law Center

• Identifying barriers and facilitators to the implementation of zoning policies to equitably reduce neighborhood tobacco retailer availability

Medeiros, Adam : University of Guelph

• “Take Care of the People, the People Take Care of the Business”: Exploring the Municipal Economic Development Role in Rural Wellbeing through Disruption, Recovery, and Resilience

Meho-Akakpo, Pascal : Queen's University

• Trust and Zoonotic Disease Surveillance Among Nomadic Pastoralists in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Scoping Review

Meho‑Akakpo, Pascal : School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University, Canada

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis

Melchert, Johannes : Heidelberg University

• Tracing Biosocial Ambiguities: Young People with Disabilities Negotiating Everyday Spaces

Members 2024/25, HEALYAC : The University of Western Ontario

• A collaborative geospatial analysis of access to high quality parks with youth in London, Ontario, Canada

Mena Arredondo, Carla : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Miller, Matthew : University of Colorado Boulder

• Beyond Home Loss: Exploration of Physical Health Pathways for Residents of Smoke-Damaged versus Destroyed Homes after a WUI Fire

Milne, Emma Sage : University of Guelph: School of Environmental Design & Rural Development

• Is This the New Normal?: The Escalation & Normalization of Emergency Department Closures in Ontario

Minaker, Leia : University of Waterloo

• Food Environments and the Geography of Disadvantage: Examining Regional Differences in Canadian Retail Access
• Bounded Mobilities: Exploring Adolescents’ Mobility Habits and Constraints in High-Rise Urban Environments

Misera, Jan : Heidelberg University

• Tracing Biosocial Ambiguities: Young People with Disabilities Negotiating Everyday Spaces

Missling, Allyson : Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

• Challenges in using fully-automated GEMA survey with online recruitment - Insights from the FragMent study on environmental determinants of stress

Mitchell, Richard : University of Glasgow

• Alcohol outlet density and wholly attributable hospitalisations in Scotland: an individual level follow up study across two time periods
• Woodland interventions for healthier child development.
• Incorporating nature in walkability indices

Mithani, Akber : Fraser Health Authority

• Barriers and Builders to Belonging: Insights from Community Organizations on Supporting Older People Living with HIV in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living in British Columbia’s Fraser Health Region

Mizen, Amy : Swansea University

• Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and Preterm Birth in Wales: A Population-Scale Cohort Study
• Disentangling the ‘coastal effect’: A population-scale joint modelling analysis of melanoma risk and ambient sunshine in Wales
• The association between long-term air pollution exposure and suicide mortality during adolescence: a population-based retrospective longitudinal cohort study

Mlacha, Yeromin : Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania

• The Uneven Malaria Burden of Floods: Spatial Heterogeneity in Flood-Driven Malaria Risk across Tanzania

Mohammed, Kamaldeen : Department of Geography & Environment, Western University

• Misconceptions and Misdiagnosis of Hypertension: Comparing and Contrasting the Determinants of Self-Reported and Measured Hypertension

Mokrzycki, Paul : McMaster University

• Sport as Crisis Infrastructure: Displacement, Governance, and Belonging Amid a Humanitarian Crisis

More, Chidvilas : Hirabai Cowasji Medical Research Institute

• Impacts of Climate Change in Rural Pune, India: Qualitative Findings from the Climate Care India initiative

Morgan, Amber-Jane : University of Stirling

• Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024

Morgan, Halston : McMaster University

• Shaping Support: Federal Funding and Policy Divisions for Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit

Morioka, Wataru : Department of Geography and Geosciences, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland, USA

• “My Paycheck Makes Me Happy, But Place Relieves My Stress”: Mental Health, Income, and Therapeutic Landscapes among Migrant Care Workers in Japan

Morlighem, Camille : Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Nemesis research team

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Morris, Courteney : Western University

• Who Gets to Be Well? Indigenous Fat Bodies, Sovereignty, and the Limits of Health Geography

Morton Ninomiya, Maya : Western University

• Environmental Repossession in the City: Urban Indigenous Youth Reclaiming Place, Community, and Land in London, Ontario.

Munn, Joseph : The Hospital for Sick Children, ICES, University of Toronto

• Residential odour impact and well-being in a steel manufacturing city

Murphy, Lisa : Point Park University

• GeoArt for Policy conversation and holistic wellbeing

Murphy, Rachel : University of British Columbia

• Food Environments and the Geography of Disadvantage: Examining Regional Differences in Canadian Retail Access

Musah, Cynthia : Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis

Nakawooya, Hadijja : University of South Carolina

• The Uneven Malaria Burden of Floods: Spatial Heterogeneity in Flood-Driven Malaria Risk across Tanzania

Naude, Katica : University of British Columbia, Department of Geography

• Geographic Access to Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Across Major US Metropolitan Areas
• Pathways to Trans Care: Travel Patterns, Information Seeking & Geographic Access to Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy

Neeb, Lisa : Reflo

• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Neely, Abigail : Department of Geography, Dartmouth College

• “I Had to Go There for My Own Safety”: Negotiations of Access and Autonomy among DC Birth Settings

Nelson, Sarah : University of Nebraska at Omaha

• Geographies of COVID-19: Hindsights and Insights for Health Geography

Newbold, Bruce : McMaster University

• Sport as Crisis Infrastructure: Displacement, Governance, and Belonging Amid a Humanitarian Crisis
• Later-Life Mobility as a Relational Process: Insights from Older Adult Migration Data
• Active Commuting and Air Pollution Risk Perception in a Changing Urban Environment: Evidence from Markham, Ontario

Nickel, Nathan : University of Manitoba

• “I had to load up a car full of people to get tested”: Rural and Remote Red River Metis experiences of COVID-19

Nkemka, Chibueze : Wilfrid Laurier University

• Explaining Negative Affect across Los Angeles in the Aftermath of Nipsey Hussle’s Death: The Role of Neighborhood Context

Noennig, Jörg : HafenCity University, Hamburg

• The Built Environment in Obesity Prevention - A Map-Based Approach to Improve Health Equity

Norman, Paul : The University of Leeds

• Inequalities in midlife mortality (1991-2019) in England by intersecting structural neighbourhood characteristics: A longitudinal application of eco-intersectional modelling

North, Laura : Swansea University

• The association between long-term air pollution exposure and suicide mortality during adolescence: a population-based retrospective longitudinal cohort study

Norton, Amanda : Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto

• Climate, Overdose, and Resilience: Combining Open Source Data to Examine Seasonality in Opioid Overdose and Shelter Utilization in Toronto

Nowak, Sarah : Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

• Capturing Dynamic Neighborhood Exposures and Population Health: A New Application of Vermont’s All-Payer Claims Data

Nunbogu, Abraham : United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health

• Places of life in fear: the necropolitics of violence against children

Nuzhat, Samiha : Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, USA

• Spatiotemporal Determinants and Unintended Consequences of Inequitable Safe Drinking-Water Access in Rural Bangladesh

Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson : University of Denver

• Assessing Agroforestry for Climate Change Mitigation in Semi-arid Ghana from a Human-Environment Health Perspective

O'Brien, Mallory : Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Spatial-Temporal Associations between Alcohol Outlet Access and Neighborhood Gun Violence Risk in Washington, D.C.

Odell, Nicole : Michigan State University

• Factors influencing the relationship between an objective walkability index and device-derived physical activity in low-income neighborhoods in Detroit

Ogledzinski, MD, Matt : Creighton university School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska 68178

• Visualizing the location and utilization of health resource vending machines as part of an opioid overdose intervention through a local health department
• Methods - Extracting historical National Weather Service warning, watch, and advisory data from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet for spatial analysis

Ogletree, Scott : University of Edinburgh

• Woodland interventions for healthier child development.

Oiamo, Tor : Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Burden of disease from road traffic noise and associations with socioeconomic marginalization in Toronto, Canada
• Traffic noise impacts on elementary school standardized test scores in Toronto, Canada

Okoduwa, Edoseawe (Godwin) : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Okoth, Charles : Alliance of Women Advocating for Change

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Olsen, Jonathan : The University of Queensland

• Incorporating nature in walkability indices

Olymbios, Georgia : Yellow Door Kids

• Building Better: Neighbourhoods to benefit children with disability

Omura, Miho : University of Tsukuba, Institute of Human Sciences, Department of Disability Sciences

• Spatial Clustering Patterns of Short-Stay Care Services in Designated Cities in Japan

Orbann, Carolyn : University of Missouri, College of Health Sciences

• Insurance Literacy as a Global Barrier to Care: Insights from a U.S. Case Study

Osima, Sarah : Tanzania Meteorological Authority

• The Uneven Malaria Burden of Floods: Spatial Heterogeneity in Flood-Driven Malaria Risk across Tanzania

Ototo, Ednah : University of Waterloo

• Women, water and building back better: a case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa

Ouellet, Julie : Université de Sherbrooke, Université Laval

• Conceptualizing Healthcare Gentrification: Results From a Scoping Review

Ouma, Simple : The AIDS Support Organisation

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Overvelde, Alexandra : Queen's University

• Essential, Precarious, and Newsworthy: An Analysis of News Coverage on Canadian Grocery Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Owen, Rhiannon : Swansea University

• Disentangling the ‘coastal effect’: A population-scale joint modelling analysis of melanoma risk and ambient sunshine in Wales

Pabayo, Roman : University of Alberta

• Association Between Public Health Unit Finding and Deaths of Despair in Ontario Before and During COVID-19

PADONOU, Edoro Serge Léon : Ecole de santé publique de l' Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche en santé publique (CReSP), Université de Montréal

• Who Shapes Children’s Mobility ? Parent-Child Discrepancies and Urban Environment interactions in Montreal.

Paguay, Emilia Ramírez : University of Missouri, Communications

• Insurance Literacy as a Global Barrier to Care: Insights from a U.S. Case Study

Palmer, Mark : University of Missouri

• Community Mapping of the pediatric autism diagnosis to services journey: a power analysis for identifying systemic barriers to care in Columbia, MO

Papaconstantinou, Efrosini : Ontario Tech University

• Supporting Girls’ Sport Participation: Development and Evaluation of an Evidence-Informed Parental Digital Toolkit

Papeix, Caroline : Hôpital Fondation A. de Rothschild, Neurology Department and Clinical Research Unit, Paris, France

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Parashar, Surita : B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

• Barriers and Builders to Belonging: Insights from Community Organizations on Supporting Older People Living with HIV in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living in British Columbia’s Fraser Health Region

Parnisari, Elena : Université de Montréal

• Power Dynamics in the Implementation of Street Rebalancing Initiatives: Implications for Urban Health Equity

Parsons, Joanne L : University of Manitoba

• Participation, Performance, and Potential for Health: Towards Critical Geographies of Health and Sport

Pearce, Jamie : University of Edinburgh

• Alcohol outlet density and wholly attributable hospitalisations in Scotland: an individual level follow up study across two time periods
• Woodland interventions for healthier child development.
• Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024
• Association between neighbourhood greenspace availability and the development of multiple long-term conditions, a follow-up study in urban areas of Scotland

Pearson, Amber : Michigan State University

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health
• Factors influencing the relationship between an objective walkability index and device-derived physical activity in low-income neighborhoods in Detroit
• Science Interrupted: Grant Terminations, Political Interference, and the Struggle to Sustain Trust in U.S. Research

Peprah, Emmanuel : New York University

• Depression in a Rapidly Urbanising African City: Urban Environment, Neighbourhood Stress, and Spatial Risk in Accra, Ghana

Perchoux, Camille : Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

• Challenges in using fully-automated GEMA survey with online recruitment - Insights from the FragMent study on environmental determinants of stress
• Investigating the dose-response effect of walking in virtual urban environments on stress levels
• Effects of the Number and Sequence of Environmental Exposure Episodes on Stress Responses

Perera, Chrishma D. : Western University, Canada

• Co-developing a community-based recipe book to support Urban Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Perry, Lucy : Swansea University

• Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and Preterm Birth in Wales: A Population-Scale Cohort Study

Peters, Mariah : Department of Geography & Environment, Western University

• Misconceptions and Misdiagnosis of Hypertension: Comparing and Contrasting the Determinants of Self-Reported and Measured Hypertension

Petet, Tatem : University of Missouri

• Community Mapping of the pediatric autism diagnosis to services journey: a power analysis for identifying systemic barriers to care in Columbia, MO

Pfeiffer, Karin : Michigan State University

• Factors influencing the relationship between an objective walkability index and device-derived physical activity in low-income neighborhoods in Detroit

Philipneri, Anne : Public Health Ontario

• Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Accessibility to Cannabis Retailers on Youth Cannabis Use in Canada from 2018 to 2023

Pietroniro, Alain : Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary

• Climate Change and Waterborne Diseases in Temperate Regions: A Systematic Review

Pincham, Mitchell : Te Ngira; Institute for Population Research, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand

• Climate change impacts on inequitable access to healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand

Pineault, Justine : Université de Sherbrooke

• Gentrification and young adults in a mid-size Canadian city: how does it shape young adult mental health?
• Conceptualizing Healthcare Gentrification: Results From a Scoping Review

Plamondon, Katrina : University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Building consensus for future pandemic readiness through deliberative dialogues on trust in mRNA vaccines
• Understanding and operationalizing equity in global health research: a critically reflective analysis of approaches to equity across the Canadian global health ecosystem

Polintan, Miesha : Queen's University

• “They have my number, but they have not called to check up on me”: Exploring trust in the health care system among sex workers living with HIV in Kumasi, Ghana
• Interventions to improve health and the determinants of health among sex workers living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Poppe, Louise : Ghent University

• Investigating the dose-response effect of walking in virtual urban environments on stress levels

Power, Andrew : University of Southampton

• Care as Place-Making: Ambivalent atmospheres towards ‘feeling at home’ in Supported Housing

Prasad, Hema : University of Missouri, Sociology

• Insurance Literacy as a Global Barrier to Care: Insights from a U.S. Case Study

Pronk, Jeroen : Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

• The Built Environment in Obesity Prevention - A Map-Based Approach to Improve Health Equity

Pugach, Oksana : University of Illinois Chicago

• Housing Instability and Transitions Among People Who Inject Drugs in Chicago and Surrounding Suburbs: A Hidden Markov Model Analysis

Quansah, Reginald : University of Ghana

• Depression in a Rapidly Urbanising African City: Urban Environment, Neighbourhood Stress, and Spatial Risk in Accra, Ghana

Quinsey, Sam : Centre for Australian Research into Accessibility, Deakin Rural Health, Australia

• Climate change impacts on inequitable access to healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand

Rainham, Daniel : Dalhousie University

• Neighbourhood social and environmental conditions for children and youth in Canada’s 30 largest cities

Rakowska, Scarlett : University of Toronto Mississauga

• Residential odour impact and well-being in a steel manufacturing city

Ransome, Yusuf : Yale University

• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility in the United States across scales: a geospatial analysis by different transportation modes

Rao, Smitha : The Ohio State University

• Climate Change & Health Experiences among Queer Communities: Learnings from Research Collaborations in the United States

Ratnapradipa, Dhitinut : Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE 68178

• Cross-sectional correlations between county-level flooding and incidence of flood-related diagnoses
• Opioids in the Extreme Weather? An In-Depth Look at Temporospatial Distribution of Opioid Overdose
• Visualizing the location and utilization of health resource vending machines as part of an opioid overdose intervention through a local health department
• Methods - Extracting historical National Weather Service warning, watch, and advisory data from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet for spatial analysis

Rausch, Rebecca : Department of Geography & Environment, Western University

• Reclaiming Urban Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Navigating Relational Methodologies in Community-Academic Partnerships

Rawat, Angeli : University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Building consensus for future pandemic readiness through deliberative dialogues on trust in mRNA vaccines
• Understanding and operationalizing equity in global health research: a critically reflective analysis of approaches to equity across the Canadian global health ecosystem

Reece, Ryan : Hurley Medical Center

• Charting the Evolution of a County EMS System through Service Privatization: A Probable Case of Hotelling’s Law

Reid, Colleen : University of Colorado Boulder

• Beyond Home Loss: Exploration of Physical Health Pathways for Residents of Smoke-Damaged versus Destroyed Homes after a WUI Fire

Reilly, Kandice : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• Identifying barriers and facilitators to the implementation of zoning policies to equitably reduce neighborhood tobacco retailer availability

Reuben, Aaron : University of Virginia

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Rey-Coyrehourcq, Sébastien : Université de Rouen-Normandie

• Using agent-based simulation to reconstruct historical disease landscapes,: the example of malaria in Cyprus

Richmond, Chantelle : Western University, Canada

• Co-developing a community-based recipe book to support Urban Indigenous Food Sovereignty
• Environmental Repossession in the City: Urban Indigenous Youth Reclaiming Place, Community, and Land in London, Ontario.

Richmond, Jennifer : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Riley, Rachel : University of Missouri

• Community Mapping of the pediatric autism diagnosis to services journey: a power analysis for identifying systemic barriers to care in Columbia, MO
• Insurance Literacy as a Global Barrier to Care: Insights from a U.S. Case Study

Rine, Sarah : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Cervical cancer risk and intersecting vulnerabilities among female sex workers in Uganda as global health support structures erode

Rishworth, Andrea : University of Toronto

• Medical Uncertainty, Structural Inequities and Disease: The Experiences of Long-COVID Among Racialized Immigrants and Racialized Non-Immigrants in Canada
• The Financialization and Digitalization of Opioid Treatment
• Seeking Care Facing Doubt: Long COVID Experiences of Racialized Immigrants in the Region of Peel
• Responsibilizing Health and the Changing States of Care

Rizvi, Sughra Syeda : Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Traffic noise impacts on elementary school standardized test scores in Toronto, Canada

Robbins, Natalie : Vanderbilt University

• Integrated Geospatial Framework for Equitable PFAS Contamination Response in Community Water Systems

Roberts, Jennifer : University of Maryland - College Park

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Robinson, Meghan : Brock University

• Jurisdictions in Response to Public Health Emergencies from the Burlington Skyway Bridge: A Collaboration between the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority and Brock University

Röcke, Christina : Universität Zürich - ZH, CH

• Challenges in using fully-automated GEMA survey with online recruitment - Insights from the FragMent study on environmental determinants of stress

Rosenberg, Mark : Queen's University

• Has open access publication benefited health geographers from middle and low-income countries?

Ross, Nancy : Queen's University

• Food Environments and the Geography of Disadvantage: Examining Regional Differences in Canadian Retail Access
• Measuring the Impacts of a New Light Rail System on Work Performance and Health Outcomes in the Greater Montréal Region

Ross, Shelby : University of Colorado Boulder

• Investigating the impacts of Extreme Weather Events on the cultural resources of Indigenous Health of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, USA.

Ross-Perez, Antonio : University of Edinburgh

• Woodland interventions for healthier child development.

Rothrock, Brandon : The Ohio State University

• Climate Change & Health Experiences among Queer Communities: Learnings from Research Collaborations in the United States

Roubin, Samuel : Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Spatial-Temporal Associations between Alcohol Outlet Access and Neighborhood Gun Violence Risk in Washington, D.C.

Rowe, Francisco : Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

• Construction of a multidimensional, longitudinal, lived-experience-informed geographic index of social environmental determinants in England

Rudyka, Dmytro : Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland

• Digging the digital - A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Digital Data Donations and Geospatial Methods in Neuromuscular Disease Research

Ryan, Nadine : University of Toronto

• Indigenous Death Doulas: Creating Alimentary Pathways for Healthy Transitions

Saaka, Sulemana Ansumah : University of Western Ontario (UWO)

• HIV Anti-Stigma Empowerment Readiness Among Service Providers in Canada: A Post-intervention Assessment of Sustained Impact

Sadler, Richard : Michigan State University

• Sprawling Out: Extending Research on Links between Urban Form and Health to Consider Additional Metropolitan Characteristics
• Charting the Evolution of a County EMS System through Service Privatization: A Probable Case of Hotelling’s Law

Saffari, Saeed : Dalhousie University

• Neighbourhood social and environmental conditions for children and youth in Canada’s 30 largest cities

Sagehorn, Mallory Sagehorn : University of Colorado Boulder

• “It’s Not Top Of Mind”: Emerging adults’ views of neighborhoods and cognitive aging
• What Makes Places Social? Pathways to Connection in Neighborhood Social Infrastructure
• Advancing Life Course Cognability: Investigating Neighborhoods, Cognitive Health Behaviors, and Dementia Risk

Salubi, Eunice : Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan

• Climate Change and Waterborne Diseases in Temperate Regions: A Systematic Review

Sanderson, Amy : University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Building consensus for future pandemic readiness through deliberative dialogues on trust in mRNA vaccines
• Understanding and operationalizing equity in global health research: a critically reflective analysis of approaches to equity across the Canadian global health ecosystem

Satpathy, Prachi : University of Toronto Scarborough

• Stakeholders' Perspectives on Canada's Progress Toward Achieving UNAIDS 95-95-95 HIV Targets for Black Communities in Ontario

Savard, Grace : University of Minnesota, University of Colorado Boulder

• Advancing Life Course Cognability: Investigating Neighborhoods, Cognitive Health Behaviors, and Dementia Risk

Schrecker, Ted : Newcastle University (emeritus)

• Neoliberal Epidemics: How Politics Makes Us Sick

Schulz, Luisa : HafenCity University, Hamburg

• The Built Environment in Obesity Prevention - A Map-Based Approach to Improve Health Equity

Schuster-Wallace, Corinne : Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan

• Climate Change and Waterborne Diseases in Temperate Regions: A Systematic Review

Seabrook, Jamie : Western University

• Additive, Compensation, or Spillover? A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Contribution of Active School Travel to Children’s Weekly Physical Activity
• Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Accessibility to Cannabis Retailers on Youth Cannabis Use in Canada from 2018 to 2023

Segovia de la Revilla, Lucia : Cambridge CARES

• Understanding historic changes in the number and geographic distribution of food outlets selling ultra-processed foods in Singapore, and implications for population diet and obesity

Sekayi, Dia : Morgan State University

• Differences in access to nature on campus between HBCU and HSIs versus PWIs and associations with student mental health

Shadman, Hossein : University of Missouri

• Ecological drivers of swine influenza H3N2 transmission in the USA: a phylogeographic approach

Shah, Maurya : University of British Columbia, Department of Geography

• Pathways to Trans Care: Travel Patterns, Information Seeking & Geographic Access to Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy

Shaker, Paul : Civicplan

• The CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative: Partnering for Active School Transportation in Hamilton, Ontario, Integrating Learnings from Helsinki, Finland

Shakespeare, Rebecca : Tufts University

• "Can we eat together?" Navigating social food spaces with food-avoidant conditions in the U.S.

Shan, Pengyin : University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• Beyond the Clinical: Developing an Ontology for Community-Level Social Determinants of Health

Shankardass, Ketan : Department of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Digging the digital - A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Digital Data Donations and Geospatial Methods in Neuromuscular Disease Research
• Identifying community neighbourhood digital places on Instagram and Facebook, a case study from city of Hamilton
• Gentrification and other changes to neighbourhood context in the City of Toronto, 2006-2016
• Explaining Negative Affect across Los Angeles in the Aftermath of Nipsey Hussle’s Death: The Role of Neighborhood Context
• Neighbourhood Resilience Planning via Participatory Mapping with Renters in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Shannon, Jerry : University of Georgia

• Teaching the mess in healthcare accessibility research

Shareck, Martine : Université de Sherbrooke

• Neighbourhood revitalization, changes in housing, and young adult health and well-being: insights from go-along interviews in Sherbrooke, Canada
• Gentrification and young adults in a mid-size Canadian city: how does it shape young adult mental health?
• Potential Spatial Accessibility to Primary Health Care in The Province of Quebec Over Time: Associations with Gentrification
• Conceptualizing Healthcare Gentrification: Results From a Scoping Review
• How are public participation processes experienced in the context of urban regeneration initiatives? A descriptive interpretive qualitative study.

Shaughnessy, Krystelle : University of Ottawa

• Neighbourhood Resilience Planning via Participatory Mapping with Renters in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Shelton, Nicola : UCL

• Shepherds and Shopkeepers: Homeworking and health in the Covid-19 Lockdown

Shi, Steven : Columbia University

• Depression in a Rapidly Urbanising African City: Urban Environment, Neighbourhood Stress, and Spatial Risk in Accra, Ghana

Shi, Xun : Department of Geography, Dartmouth College

• “I Had to Go There for My Own Safety”: Negotiations of Access and Autonomy among DC Birth Settings
• Integrating Long-Term Residential Histories into Environmental Epidemiology: A Spatiotemporal Approach to ALS and Airborne Lead Exposure

Shields, Lauren : Ontario Tech University

• Life-Course Transitions and the Geographies of Health: Macro- and Micro-Level Predictors of Self-Rated Health from Childhood to Adulthood

Shields, Timothy : Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Spatial-Temporal Associations between Alcohol Outlet Access and Neighborhood Gun Violence Risk in Washington, D.C.

Shortt, Niamh : University of Edinburgh

• Alcohol outlet density and wholly attributable hospitalisations in Scotland: an individual level follow up study across two time periods
• Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024

Siiba, Alhassan : Queen's University

• ‘We did not know stroke, and we also did not know ulcers’: A qualitative study of perceived health impacts of food systems globalization on smallholder farmers in northern Ghana
• Coping with non-communicable diseases in a changing climate: A mixed methods study of coping strategies of smallholder farmers living with non-communicable diseases in northern Ghana

Smith, Brendan : Public Health Ontario

• Association Between Public Health Unit Finding and Deaths of Despair in Ontario Before and During COVID-19

Smith, Lindsey : Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto

• Climate, Overdose, and Resilience: Combining Open Source Data to Examine Seasonality in Opioid Overdose and Shelter Utilization in Toronto
• Bounded Mobilities: Exploring Adolescents’ Mobility Habits and Constraints in High-Rise Urban Environments

Smith, Sericea Stallings : University of North Florida

• Spatial Optimization Approach for Assessing Spatial Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Access

Smith-Anderson, Nichole : Greater Flint Health Coalition

• Charting the Evolution of a County EMS System through Service Privatization: A Probable Case of Hotelling’s Law

Sohl, Kristin : University of Missouri

• Community Mapping of the pediatric autism diagnosis to services journey: a power analysis for identifying systemic barriers to care in Columbia, MO

Solter, Marin : Centre for Information Management, Business School, Loughborough University, UK

• Identifying community neighbourhood digital places on Instagram and Facebook, a case study from city of Hamilton
• Neighbourhood Resilience Planning via Participatory Mapping with Renters in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Song, Insang : Seoul National University

• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility in the United States across scales: a geospatial analysis by different transportation modes

Sorensen, Janice : Fraser Health Authority

• Barriers and Builders to Belonging: Insights from Community Organizations on Supporting Older People Living with HIV in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living in British Columbia’s Fraser Health Region

Stenberg, Keely : University of Waterloo

• Are we working together or alone? An assessment of healthy city/community practice in Ontario, Canada
• Examining place-based factors that facilitate immigrant settlement outside of gateway cities

Stepien, Joanna : University of Gdansk, Poland

• Spatial variation of health resilience in Poland in the context of depopulation and external security threats.

Stevens, Charlotte : Queen Mary University of London

• "If I don't do this, you'll lose me another way": the moral economies of UK-Türkiye medical tourism for elective bariatric surgery

Storer, Elizabeth : Queen Mary University of London

• ‘Fighting him’: Following distress in hostile migratory environments
• Under Pressure: Distress, Obligation and Care in Uganda and the UK

Stouffs, Rudi : National University of Singapore

• Understanding historic changes in the number and geographic distribution of food outlets selling ultra-processed foods in Singapore, and implications for population diet and obesity

Strahley, Ashley : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• Identifying barriers and facilitators to the implementation of zoning policies to equitably reduce neighborhood tobacco retailer availability
• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Strigo, Tara : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• “People of color, poor people is not as urgent as what they consider White people who are privileged 'cause our hurt is not like their hurt”: Utilizing a neighborhood political ecology framework to explore the impact of neighborhoods on residential health inequities

Struik, Laura : School of Nursing, University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages

Strzelewicz, Noah : Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités Sociétés Territoires (LISST), CNRS

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Sullivan, Laine : University of Colorado Boulder

• Advancing Life Course Cognability: Investigating Neighborhoods, Cognitive Health Behaviors, and Dementia Risk
• Toxic Geographies: Mapping Lead Exposure in Chicago

Sun, Jiashuo : The University of Hong Kong

• Acute Stress Responses and Mental Health Impacts: Rapid Evidence from the Deadly Tai Po Fire in Hong Kong

Sun, Yue : University of Colorado Boulder

• Beyond Home Loss: Exploration of Physical Health Pathways for Residents of Smoke-Damaged versus Destroyed Homes after a WUI Fire

Suzanne, Suzanne : Centre for Information Management, Business School, Loughborough University, UK

• Digging the digital - A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Digital Data Donations and Geospatial Methods in Neuromuscular Disease Research
• Identifying community neighbourhood digital places on Instagram and Facebook, a case study from city of Hamilton
• Explaining Negative Affect across Los Angeles in the Aftermath of Nipsey Hussle’s Death: The Role of Neighborhood Context
• Neighbourhood Resilience Planning via Participatory Mapping with Renters in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sykora, Martin : Centre for Information Management, Business School, Loughborough University, UK

• Digging the digital - A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Digital Data Donations and Geospatial Methods in Neuromuscular Disease Research
• Identifying community neighbourhood digital places on Instagram and Facebook, a case study from city of Hamilton
• Explaining Negative Affect across Los Angeles in the Aftermath of Nipsey Hussle’s Death: The Role of Neighborhood Context
• Neighbourhood Resilience Planning via Participatory Mapping with Renters in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Taggart, Tamara : Rutgers University

• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility in the United States across scales: a geospatial analysis by different transportation modes

Talarico, Kimberly : Milwaukee Public Schools

• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Tamari, Ruth : McMaster University

• Intergenerational Community in Multi-Unit Housing: A strategy to address ageism

Tammena, Sikko : Research Center for Public, Planetary and Digital Health (P²D), IU International University of Applied Sciences

• Therapeutic Landscapes Between Meaning and Measurement

Taylor, Stephen : Queen Mary University of London

• Trauma, mapepo, and the limits of “treatment gaps” in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Terai Lara, Shana : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Thapa, Roshan : Medical college of wisconsin

• Scorching Inequality: Occupational Heat Stress and Kidney Injury Among Nepali Migrant Workers

Thayer, Zaneta : Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College

• “I Had to Go There for My Own Safety”: Negotiations of Access and Autonomy among DC Birth Settings

Thompson, Susan : The University of New South Wales

• Incorporating nature in walkability indices

Thwaites, Oliver : Swansea University

• Disentangling the ‘coastal effect’: A population-scale joint modelling analysis of melanoma risk and ambient sunshine in Wales
• The association between long-term air pollution exposure and suicide mortality during adolescence: a population-based retrospective longitudinal cohort study

Tinarwo, Joseph : Greater Zimbabwe University

• Food on the move? Promoting food security through post-colonial infrastructure repair

Toha, Thalia : PhD Student

• How would a disabled person drive their own experience, memories, and research in places for group dining?

Tong, Ophelia : University of British Columbia, Department of Geography

• Pathways to Trans Care: Travel Patterns, Information Seeking & Geographic Access to Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy

Topalian, Noémie : Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

• Challenges in using fully-automated GEMA survey with online recruitment - Insights from the FragMent study on environmental determinants of stress

Topalovic, Peter : City of Hamilton

• The CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative: Partnering for Active School Transportation in Hamilton, Ontario, Integrating Learnings from Helsinki, Finland

Tubach, Florence : Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Equipe PEPITES, AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Département de Santé Publique, Unité de Recherche Clinique PSL-CFX, Paris, France

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Turley, Chelsea : Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

• Capturing Dynamic Neighborhood Exposures and Population Health: A New Application of Vermont’s All-Payer Claims Data

Ulrich, Sarah : UNC-Chapel Hill

• Identifying spatial patterns of travel behavior responses to heatwaves using high- resolution cell phone mobility data in North Carolina​

Ulrich-Cech, Cyenna : The Ohio State University

• Climate Change & Health Experiences among Queer Communities: Learnings from Research Collaborations in the United States

Ünsal, Ömer : Bursa Uludag University

• A Comprehensive Scoping Review on Smart City and Mental Health Historical Evolution, Developments, and Future Directions
• Geographical Variations in the Prevalence and Determinants of Severe Underweight Children Under Five in Pakistan: A Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis

Uphold, Heatherlun : Michigan State University

• Charting the Evolution of a County EMS System through Service Privatization: A Probable Case of Hotelling’s Law

van Empelen, Pepijn : Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

• The Built Environment in Obesity Prevention - A Map-Based Approach to Improve Health Equity

Varley, Alice : University of Liverpool

• A Multi-Dimensional Framework of Factors Impacting the UK Mental Healthcare Journey

Vena, Jennifer : Alberta’s Tomorrow Project, Cancer Care Alberta

• Food Environments and the Geography of Disadvantage: Examining Regional Differences in Canadian Retail Access

Venkateswaran, Narmada : University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

• Ecology and Evolution of Swine Influenza in the United States
• Ecological drivers of swine influenza H3N2 transmission in the USA: a phylogeographic approach

Vernal, Fiona : University of Connecticut

• The Hidden Costs of Flooding and Combined Sewer Overflows: Evidence from a Systematic Media Analysis (1970-2025)

Vicedo-Cabrera, Ana Maria : University of Bern, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland

• Extreme Weather and Relapse Risk in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in France.

Vine, Michelle : Brock University

• The CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative: Partnering for Active School Transportation in Hamilton, Ontario, Integrating Learnings from Helsinki, Finland
• Jurisdictions in Response to Public Health Emergencies from the Burlington Skyway Bridge: A Collaboration between the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority and Brock University

Viradia, Niki : Medical college of wisconsin

• Scorching Inequality: Occupational Heat Stress and Kidney Injury Among Nepali Migrant Workers

Völker, Sebastian : Research Center for Public, Planetary and Digital Health (P²D), IU International University of Applied Sciences

• Therapeutic Landscapes Between Meaning and Measurement
• Planning for Equitable Oral Health Futures: Competition-Aware Spatial Accessibility Mapping in Germany

Wagle, Janavi : brookfield high school

• Scorching Inequality: Occupational Heat Stress and Kidney Injury Among Nepali Migrant Workers

Walling, Dayne : University of Minnesota

• Sprawling Out: Extending Research on Links between Urban Form and Health to Consider Additional Metropolitan Characteristics

Walwanga, Isaiah : University of Waterloo

• Frames of neglect: necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana’s galamsey environment-health Crisis
• Women, water and building back better: a case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa

Wan, Xiu-Feng : University of Missouri

• Ecology and Evolution of Swine Influenza in the United States
• Ecological drivers of swine influenza H3N2 transmission in the USA: a phylogeographic approach

Wang, Cuizhen : University of South Carolina

• The Uneven Malaria Burden of Floods: Spatial Heterogeneity in Flood-Driven Malaria Risk across Tanzania

Wang, Jue : University of Toronto

• Investigating the Relationship Between Psychological Stress and Physical Activity through Individual-Based Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment
• Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Urban Amenity Accessibility and Its Lagged Effects on Long-Term Mental Well-Being: A Case Study of Mississauga, Canada
• Spatial Reasoning in the Age of GeoAI: Rethinking Mobility and Exposure for GeoHealth Research

Wang, Lan : Tongji University

• Socioeconomic inequalities in online fresh food delivery use and associations with the neighborhood food environment

Wang, Xingyue : HafenCity University, Hamburg

• The Built Environment in Obesity Prevention - A Map-Based Approach to Improve Health Equity

Wang, Yi-Chen : Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

• GeoAI Mapping of Global Urban Environmental Health Potential: Inequality and Uncertainty

Wang, Yuxiao : Beijing Normal University

• A Geospatial Study of Environmental Exposures, Healthcare Accessibility, and Maternal Health Utilizing Electronic Medical Records in Wuhan, China

Ward Thompson, Catharine : University of Edinburgh

• Woodland interventions for healthier child development.

Webster, Daniel : Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Spatial-Temporal Associations between Alcohol Outlet Access and Neighborhood Gun Violence Risk in Washington, D.C.

Were, Jason : University of Alberta

• Association Between Public Health Unit Finding and Deaths of Despair in Ontario Before and During COVID-19

Werstuik, Saige : School of Nursing, University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Critical Reflections on a Creative Youth-Led Framework to Co-Produce Vaping Prevention Messages

West, Anna : Haverford College

• A Mobile Ontology of Shade and Social Inclusion

Whalen, Kate : McMaster University

• The CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative: Partnering for Active School Transportation in Hamilton, Ontario, Integrating Learnings from Helsinki, Finland

Wheeler, Benedict : European Centre for Environment & Human Health, University of Exeter

• Socio-spatial inequalities in UK urban tree canopy cover

White, Cassidy : Wake Forest University School of Medicine

• Identifying barriers and facilitators to the implementation of zoning policies to equitably reduce neighborhood tobacco retailer availability

Whitehead, Jesse : Te Ngira; Institute for Population Research, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand

• Climate change impacts on inequitable access to healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand

Widener, Michael : University of Toronto

• Food Environments and the Geography of Disadvantage: Examining Regional Differences in Canadian Retail Access
• Contextualized urban food environment research

Wiese, Daniel : American Cancer Society, Temple University

• Associations between Long-Term Residential Exposure to Historical Redlining and High-Poverty and Prostate Cancer Stage at Diagnosis.
• Responsible GeoAI for Cancer Research: Synthesizing GeoAI and CancerAI with a Case Study of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

Williams, Allison : McMaster University

• Extracting Website Content from a Sample of Wellness-Based Canadian Spas to Assess their Representation of Therapeutic Landscapes
• Shaping Support: Federal Funding and Policy Divisions for Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit
• Understanding the place of urban nature in the therapeutic landscapes literature: A scoping review
• Caregiving as a Human Right
• Building carer-inclusive workplaces across Canada: Evaluating the uptake of standardized workplace policies
• Perceptions of Polar Regions as Therapeutic Landscapes: A Qualitative Exploration
• The Invisible Toll: Women's Caregiving and the Hidden Labour of Enduring Climate

Wilson, Kathi : Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment at UTM

• Medical Uncertainty, Structural Inequities and Disease: The Experiences of Long-COVID Among Racialized Immigrants and Racialized Non-Immigrants in Canada
• Seeking Care Facing Doubt: Long COVID Experiences of Racialized Immigrants in the Region of Peel
• Designing a Framework for Measuring Equitable Access to Health Services

Wilton, Robert : McMaster University

• Disability, immigration and the shifting politics of medical inadmissibility

Winata, Fikriyah : Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

• Spatial Accessibility to Hemodialysis Centers and Chronic Kidney Disease Disparities Across Racial/Ethnic Compositions in Houston, Texas
• “My Paycheck Makes Me Happy, But Place Relieves My Stress”: Mental Health, Income, and Therapeutic Landscapes among Migrant Care Workers in Japan

Withers, Suzanne : University of Washington

• The Disruptive Potency and Potential of Bearing Witness to Overdose Fatalities

Wojciechowski, Wally : Michigan State University

• Charting the Evolution of a County EMS System through Service Privatization: A Probable Case of Hotelling’s Law

Wolf, Markus : Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

• Digging the digital - A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Digital Data Donations and Geospatial Methods in Neuromuscular Disease Research

Wong, Josephine : Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)

• HIV Anti-Stigma Empowerment Readiness Among Service Providers in Canada: A Post-intervention Assessment of Sustained Impact

Wong, Maria : University of Alberta

• Association Between Public Health Unit Finding and Deaths of Despair in Ontario Before and During COVID-19

Wong, Sandy : The Ohio State University

• Climate Change & Health Experiences among Queer Communities: Learnings from Research Collaborations in the United States

Wray, Alexander : The University of Tennessee Knoxville

• A collaborative geospatial analysis of access to high quality parks with youth in London, Ontario, Canada
• Bounded Mobilities: Exploring Adolescents’ Mobility Habits and Constraints in High-Rise Urban Environments

Wu, Joyce : McMaster University

• Extracting Website Content from a Sample of Wellness-Based Canadian Spas to Assess their Representation of Therapeutic Landscapes

Xu, Dong : Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

• GeoAI Mapping of Global Urban Environmental Health Potential: Inequality and Uncertainty

Xu, Wei : Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Social Sciences, Institute for Health & Humanity, Medical College of Wisconsin

• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Structural Disinvestment, Neighborhood Heat Exposure and the Mediating Effect of Tree Canopy: A National Study across U.S. Census Tracts

Yamada, Ikuho : Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

• “My Paycheck Makes Me Happy, But Place Relieves My Stress”: Mental Health, Income, and Therapeutic Landscapes among Migrant Care Workers in Japan

Yamoah, Stephanie : University of Denver

• Assessing Agroforestry for Climate Change Mitigation in Semi-arid Ghana from a Human-Environment Health Perspective

Yang, Kai : Medical College of Wisconsin

• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Yang, Xueliang : Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA

• Depression in a Rapidly Urbanising African City: Urban Environment, Neighbourhood Stress, and Spatial Risk in Accra, Ghana
• Quantifying Causal Effect of Extreme Heat on Dog Bite Incidents in New York City: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Community Vulnerability

Yeung, Yuki : University of Waterloo

• Understanding Climate-Health Intersections: Embodied Political Ecology of Health and Wellbeing
• Characterizing the health impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) across the life course: An umbrella review

Young, T. Raquel : University of Missouri, Public Health

• Insurance Literacy as a Global Barrier to Care: Insights from a U.S. Case Study

Youngren, Catherine : Fraser Health Authority

• Barriers and Builders to Belonging: Insights from Community Organizations on Supporting Older People Living with HIV in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living in British Columbia’s Fraser Health Region

Zajacova, Anna : Department of Sociology, Western University

• Misconceptions and Misdiagnosis of Hypertension: Comparing and Contrasting the Determinants of Self-Reported and Measured Hypertension

Zarringhalam, Hamid : Toronto Metropolitan University

• Social Determinants of Health and MMR Vaccinations in School Children in Windsor-Essex: A Spatial Analysis

Zeigler-Johnson, Charnita : Fox Chase Cancer Center

• Associations between Long-Term Residential Exposure to Historical Redlining and High-Poverty and Prostate Cancer Stage at Diagnosis.

Zeng, Yutian : UT Southwestern Medical Center

• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility in the United States across scales: a geospatial analysis by different transportation modes

Zhang, Casper : The University of Hong Kong

• Acute Stress Responses and Mental Health Impacts: Rapid Evidence from the Deadly Tai Po Fire in Hong Kong

Zhang, Peiqi : Western University

• Additive, Compensation, or Spillover? A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Contribution of Active School Travel to Children’s Weekly Physical Activity

Zhang, Shanqi : Nanjing University

• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis accessibility in the United States across scales: a geospatial analysis by different transportation modes

Zhang, Yu : Queens University, McGill University

• Measuring the Impacts of a New Light Rail System on Work Performance and Health Outcomes in the Greater Montréal Region

Zhe, Lin : University of Colorado Boulder

• Advancing Life Course Cognability: Investigating Neighborhoods, Cognitive Health Behaviors, and Dementia Risk

Zheng, Chunyu : University of Edinburgh

• Alcohol outlet density and wholly attributable hospitalisations in Scotland: an individual level follow up study across two time periods
• Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024
• Association between neighbourhood greenspace availability and the development of multiple long-term conditions, a follow-up study in urban areas of Scotland

Zheng, Congyuan : University of Colorado Boulder, Institute of Behavioral Science

• GeoTranslator: A Translation-Layer Paradigm for Spatial Evidence Production in Health Geography Research

Zhong, Shiran : Western University

• Additive, Compensation, or Spillover? A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Contribution of Active School Travel to Children’s Weekly Physical Activity
• Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Accessibility to Cannabis Retailers on Youth Cannabis Use in Canada from 2018 to 2023

Zhou, Han : Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

• The Built Environment in Obesity Prevention - A Map-Based Approach to Improve Health Equity

Zhou, Peiling : Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

• From communitas to fluidunitas: recontextualizing spiritual therapeutic landscapes in post-secular pilgrimage

Zhou, Yuhong : Research Scientist, Division of Epidemiology and Social Sciences, Institute for Health & Humanity, Medical College of Wisconsin

• Surface temperature impacts of schoolyard greening redevelopments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Structural Disinvestment, Neighborhood Heat Exposure and the Mediating Effect of Tree Canopy: A National Study across U.S. Census Tracts

Zhu, Bin : Southern University of Science and Technology

• Development and validation of a Geospatial eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (GeoXAI) framework for mapping mosquito density in metropolitans
• Extreme Weather Triggers Cascading Disruptions Across Ambulance Response Stages

Ziehl, Kailey : Queen's University

• Interventions to improve health and the determinants of health among sex workers living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Ziller, Erika : Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

• Capturing Dynamic Neighborhood Exposures and Population Health: A New Application of Vermont’s All-Payer Claims Data