Environment and Health

A series of talks and workshops related to the theme will be held in the coming months

1. Talk - GIS in Public Health Management and Practice
2. Talk - GIS in Environmental Management and Modeling
3. Workshop - Disease Mapping and environmental monitoring

Geographical Information System (GIS) is a powerful decision-support tool used to answer the question of “where”, “when” and “what” virus/disease may be spreading. GIS has been used extensively in epidemiology study (e.g., disease surveillance) and healthcare industry (e.g., resource planning). The talk will demonstrate the use of GIS and multiple sources of geospatial data for location-based analysis to support healthcare planning and public health decision-making. Examples of spatial applications will be introduced and discussed.

 1. Professional Geospatial Theme Talk – “GIS in Public Health Management and Practice”

2. Q&A session

3. Tour in Geospatial Lab, with showcases and demonstrations (Face-to-face format only)

Date:	09 July 2022 at 10:00 – 12:00
Venue:	Geospatial Lab (Units 915-918, 9/F, Tower 1, Millennium City 1, 388 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon) or online (Hybrid format)
Guest Lecturer:	Dr. Paulina Wong, Hon. Secretary of HKGISA and Assistant Professor, Science Unit, Lingnan University
	(Please refer to “Introduction of Guest Lecturer” for details)
Language:	Cantonese, supplemented by English teaching materials

• Please register via the registration link
  
  
• Quota: 30 (first-come-first-served)
  
  
• Free of charge
  
  
• Successful applicants will be notified individually by phone or email

*Geospatial Lab reserves the right to cancel or reschedule the activity

Dr. Paulina Wong

Dr. Paulina Wong is currently an Assistant Professor in the Science Unit at Lingnan University and Centre Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies. She is an environmental geographer specializing in urban climate, air/noise pollution, GIS, and environmental health. In recent years, her research has been extended to urban sensing, mobile geospatial technologies, sustainability education and social policy. She is a certified GIS Professional. She also serves on a number of professional associations such as the Council member and Vice-chairman of the Spatial Data Infrastructure Committee of Smart City Consortium, Honorary Secretary of HKGISA and Committee member of HKABAEIMA. She is also the editorial board member and review editor of several quality international journals.

Dr. Wong obtained her BSc and MSc (First Class Honours) from University of Auckland, New Zealand and PhD from HKU.