Dr. Isaac Luginaah is a Professor of Geography at Western University. Dr. Luginaah has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the Africa Institute at Western since (2014). Among others, in 2008, he was recognized by the Canadian Association of Geographers with the Julian M. Szeicz Award for Early Career Achievement. In 2014, Dr. Luginaah was inducted into The Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars. His broad areas of research interests include: environment and health, population health and GIS applications in health. Dr. Luginaah`s work involves an integrative understanding of the broad determinants of the population health and the evidence of environment and health linkages. He is specifically interested in the human health impacts of environmental exposure, and his recent work in this area involves examining the links between ambient air quality and health in Southwestern Ontario. He is also involved in HIV/AIDS research in Africa, specifically Kenya, Ghana and Ni
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CLEVELAND - In a new paper, researchers describe their development of a near-real time spatial assessment of COVID-19 cases to help guide local medical responses to clusters of outbreaks of the virus at the local level.
The paper, entitled Geographic monitoring for early disease detection (GeoMEDD), appeared in the Dec. 10 issue of Nature
Scientific Reports and comes from researchers at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine, University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland Medical Center, and Texas A & M University.
While developing a tracking system during the beginning stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors realized that there was a need to refocus more traditional spatial mapping towards a more granular cluster detection methodology that provides syndromic surveillance, or early indicators of emergent disease by leveraging a health system s access to data streams from various sources which account for location and timing of cases.