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Our Mission

To address critical issues in population health and health care delivery through cross-disciplinary, geospatial innovation in data-driven research

Our Passion

Through applied geographic techniques our work allows us to draw on insights on the effect of geography in healthcare.
Geographic Approaches to Population and Clinical Health

Our team provides innovative strategies to harness the power of location information from today's data-driven world to improve health and healthcare.
Geoinformatics

Geographic analysis is a critical component in our work to understand the complexities of health care access and delivery issues. We employ travel time and service area catchment strategies in our work.
Geographic Analysis

Applied geographic methods allow researchers the ability to explore health service utilization for specific patient populations to better address geographic access disparities.
Rural Population Management/Clinical Phenotyping with Geographic Methods

Health services research examines the impact that various factors have on the ability for individuals to access health care services. In our work, we focus on the impact that geographic access has on the ability for individuals to receive necessary medical services.
Health Services Research

Epidemiology is the study of disease. Our work focuses on the use of geographic information science to unveil the influence that geography has on disease etiology.
Epidemiology

Latest Blog Posts

  • GeoInformatics: What inspires us?
    Mon, 08/07/2017 - 15:42

    Dogs. We love dogs around here.

    There are the traditional reasons to love dogs – they are loyal, funny and have magnetic personalities. Conversely, there are some wonderfully unconventional reasons to love dogs– they think, see and interpret life in completely different ways than their bipedal masters and teach us lessons in exploration.

    One specific example of why we think dogs are pretty spectacular is because they give us perspective. Perspective to consider what we can’t see with our eyes – to use our senses fully. Employ all of our passion, drive and intellect to discover ideas and creative pursuits not readily obvious at first glance.

    For our canine friends, perspective begins in the olfactory senses - they “look” at the world through their noses. Alexandra... Read More

    Tags:
    Inspired, Geography, GeoHealthHound
  • Dr. Tracy Onega receives NCI grant to study regional cancer care (Cancer Service Areas)
    Fri, 07/07/2017 - 12:59

    Dr. Tracy Onega, together with collaborator, Dr. Fahui Wang has been awarded a newly funded National Cancer Institute (NCI) exploratory developmental grant. The project, titled “Cancer Service Areas”, will be based at Dartmouth/Geisel and deepens an existing collaboration with Dr. Fahui Wang of Louisiana State University (LSU), a highly-respected geographer and economist, who developed the seminal two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) methodology.

    This project will develop a refined approach for generating utilization-based service areas specific to cancer care - Cancer Service... Read More

    Tags:
    Cancer Care, Collaborations
  • Jennifer Alford-Teaster accepted to 2017-2018 class of Dartmouth LEADS
    Fri, 06/23/2017 - 15:25

    The Geoinformatics Collaboratory Geospatial Research Director, Jennifer Alford-Teaster, MA, MPH has been accepted to the second class of the Dartmouth LEADS program.

    The Dartmouth LEADS program is a selective yearlong leadership program for high performing college staff. The 2017-2018 cohort includes a diverse group of twenty individuals from across the Dartmouth community. The group will receive mentoring, engage in a 360 review as well as be responsible for the development of an Action Learning Project (ALP) that will enhance operations within their home departments.

    Mrs. Jennifer Alford-Teaster will use this unique opportunity... Read More

    Tags:
    Leadership, Team Development
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