This workshop builds upon the effort and discussions of the “Leveraging Advances in Remote Geospatial Technologies to Inform Precision Environmental Health Decisions – A Workshop” convened in April 2021, by the National Academies’ Standing Committee on Use of Emerging Science on Environmental Health Decisions.
Integrating Multiscale Geospatial Environmental Data Into Large Population Health Studies
June 15 – 16, 2021
Virtual Meeting
Assessing the environmental exposures of an individual is critical for understanding the environmental contributions to individual health and disease outcomes. Nevertheless, accurate and cost-effective exposure assessment in large population health studies remains a major challenge. Recent advances in remote sensing and geospatial technologies provide significant opportunities for access to high spatiotemporal resolution exposure data and improved exposure estimates at personal level. This workshop will bring together experts in exposure science, geospatial technologies, data science, and population health to explore opportunities in linking multiscale geospatial environmental data (across time, space, and exposure types) to human health.
This virtual workshop will be a two-day format, covering the following four topics:
- Geospatial Technologies and Human Health
- Measurement Error, Spatiotemporal Modeling, and Mobility
- “Big Data” and Analytical Considerations
- How to Go Forward From Here - Perspectives From Population Health Studies
Meeting Goals
The goals of the workshop are as follows:
- To demonstrate recent advances in applying geospatial technologies to understand the health impacts of a variety of environmental factors
- To identify research gaps and discuss pathways of moving the field forward
- To foster interactions and collaborations between geospatial experts and population health researchers