Medical geography, an important area of health research, applies concepts, methods, and techniques from geography to investigate health-related topics across the world, focusing on spatial aspects of human and animal (livestock and wildlife) disease and health intervention.
Sub-areas
- Disease modeling
- Risk mapping
- Spatial epidemiology analysis
- One Health
- Zoonotic emergence
- Spatial health disparities
- Network Analysis
- Health services and Healthcare access
Courses
- IDS2935 The Next Pandemic (Quest 2)
- IDS2935 Global Patterns of STIs (Quest 2)
- GEO3427 Plants, Health, & Spirituality
- GEO3452/6451 Introduction to Medical Geography
- GEO3454 People and Plagues
- GEO4306C Geography of Vector-borne Diseases
- GIS3420C/6425C GIS Models for Public Health
- GIS4424C/6456C Applications in GIS for Zoonoses and Disease Ecology
- GEO6938 Advanced Design in Medical Geography
- GIS4113/6104 Spatial Networks
- GIS4115/6117 Applied Geostatistics
Certificates
Major
Undergraduate BA or BS, including pre-health option