Andrew Curtis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3635406 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrew Curtis |
| PRENOMES | Andrew |
| SOBRENOME | Curtis |
| ASSINATURA | CURTIS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6046-6476 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
“It’s the Best Thing in the World Around Here”
Our study explores whether certain establishments repel crime in a high-crime neighborhood. We draw on interviews with 35 neighborhood insiders in 2014 and 2015, consisting of ex-offenders, residents, and police. We examine the spatial relationships between places identified by participants—churches, parks, and community gardens—and calls for service (CFS) using Ripley’s network bivariate K-function. Community gardens were associated with repulsi…
Exposure to Air Pollution and the Prevalence of Respiratory Symptoms in Northeast Ohio Farmworkers
The burden of chronic respiratory disease among the Latino farmworker community remains poorly understood. We aim to evaluate the prevalence of self-reported respiratory symptoms in a cohort of Latino farmworkers and identify the association between occupational and environmental exposures and symptom burden. Utilizing participatory mapping in combination with satellite derived models of ambient air pollution exposure, we quantified estimated exp…
Neighborhood level predictors of rape
Association of School Instructional Mode with Community Covid-19 Incidence during August–December 2020 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Remote and hybrid modes of instruction were employed as alternatives to in-person instruction as part of early mitigation efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigated the impact of a public school district's instructional mode on cumulative incidence and transmission in the surrounding community by employing a generalized estimating equations approach to estimate the association with weekly COVID-19 case counts by zip code in Cuy…
Residential history, the electronic health record, and clinical medicine
Neighborhood level social determinants of health are commonly measured using a patient's most recent residential location. Not accounting for residential history, and therefore missing accumulated stressors from prior social vulnerabilities, could increase misclassification bias. We tested the hypothesis that the electronic health record could capture the residential history of lung transplant patients -a vulnerable population. After applying the…
Optimising scale and deployment of community health workers in Sierra Leone
BACKGROUND: Little is known about strategies for optimising the scale and deployment of community health workers (CHWs) to maximise geographic accessibility of primary healthcare services. METHODS: We used data from a national georeferenced census of CHWs and other spatial datasets in Sierra Leone to undertake a geospatial analysis exploring optimisation of the scale and deployment of CHWs, with the aim of informing implementation of current CHW …
The health-trash nexus in challenging environments
Spatial Syndromic Surveillance and Covid-19 in the U.S
Maps have become the de facto primary mode of visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic, from identifying local disease and vaccination patterns to understanding global trends. In addition to their widespread utilization for public communication, there have been a variety of advances in spatial methods created for localized operational needs. While broader dissemination of this more granular work is not commonplace due to the protections under Health Ins…
Spatial Video and EpiExplorer
Disease risk associated with contaminated water, poor sanitation, and hygiene in informal settlement environments is conceptually well understood. From an analytical perspective, collecting data at a suitably fine scale spatial and temporal granularity is challenging. Novel mobile methodologies, such as spatial video (SV), can complement more traditional epidemiological field work to address this gap. However, this work then poses additional chal…
Mapping Mobility
Individuals experiencing homelessness represent a growing population in the United States. Air pollution exposure among individuals experiencing homelessness has not been quantified. Utilizing local knowledge mapping, we generated activity spaces for 62 individuals experiencing homelessness residing in a semi-rural county within the United States. Satellite derived measurements of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) were utilized to estimate annual e…
The Geographic Context of Racial Disparities in Aggressive Endometrial Cancer Subtypes
The number of Endometrial Carcinoma (EC) diagnoses is projected to increase substantially in coming decades. Although most ECs have a favorable prognosis, the aggressive, non-endometrioid subtypes are disproportionately concentrated in Black women and spread rapidly, making treatment difficult and resulting in poor outcomes. Therefore, this study offers an exploratory spatial epidemiological investigation of EC patients within a U.S.-based health…
Application of Place-Based Methods to Lung Transplant Medicine
Lung transplantation is an increasingly common lifesaving therapy for patients with fatal lung diseases, but this intervention has a critical limitation as median survival after LT is merely 5.5 years. Despite the profound impact of place-based factors on lung health, this has not been rigorously investigated in LT recipients-a vulnerable population due to the lifelong need for daily life-sustaining immunosuppression medications. There have also …
An Exploration of Narcan as a Harm Reduction Strategy and User’s Attitudes toward Law Enforcement Involvement in Overdose Cases
The street homeless, those who spend their nights either in shelters or unofficial camps, whether in tents on a street or in society's hidden spaces such as beneath an overpass, face multiple challenges beyond finding a safe place to sleep. Of further concern is how official actions can worsen these situations, through day-to-day activities or planned intervention strategies. In this paper we explore how a planned intervention may be negatively p…
Preliminary Documented Recovery Patterns and Observations from Video Cataloged Data of the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado
The 2011 Joplin, Missouri, tornado was one of the deadliest and costliest tornadoes in US history, damaging approximately 8,000 structures and causing more than $2 billion in economic damages. As with most extreme events, reports following the tornado documented the widespread damage, including complete destruction of one of the local hospitals along with various schools. However, recovery processes have not been documented and evaluated at the s…
Validation of Time-Dependent Repair Recovery of the Building Stock Following the 2011 Joplin Tornado
This paper seeks to calibrate an existing analytical framework to develop building repair fragility models using a restoration dataset collected through a longitudinal field study in the city of Joplin, Missouri, after the catastrophic 2011 Enhanced Fujita 5 tornado. First, an existing recovery data set from Joplin is documented and the main findings pertaining to the observed recovery trajectory of the buildings are highlighted. In the next step…
Appreciating the complexity of localized malaria risk in Ghana
The Meta-Oak Project
The California Adolescent Health Collaborative, a project of the Public Health Institute, in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education jointly led a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study engaging youth coresearchers to fill the critical gap in knowledge about youth’s perceptions of electronic cigarette products and how they are marketed toward young people in Oak…
Assessing the Geographic Context of Risk Perception and Behavioral Response to Potential Ebola Exposure
The 2014−2016 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic outbreak reached over 28,000 cases and totaled over 11,000 deaths with 4 confirmed cases in the United States, which sparked widespread public concern about nationwide spread of EVD. Concern was elevated in locations connected to the infected people, which included Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. This threat of exposure enabled a unique opportunity to assess self-reported knowledge about EVD, …
The Use of Geonarratives to Add Context to Fine Scale Geospatial Research
There has been a move towards using mixed method approaches in geospatial research to gain context in understanding health related social patterns and processes. The central premise is that official data is often too reductionist and misses’ nuances that can help explain causality. One example is the geonarrative, a spatially relevant commentary or interview that can be mapped by content and/or location. While there have been several examples of …
Micro-Space Complexity and Context in the Space-Time Variation in Enteric Disease Risk for Three Informal Settlements of Port au Prince, Haiti
Diffusion of cholera and other diarrheal diseases in an informal settlement is a product of multiple behavioral, environmental and spatial risk factors. One of the most important components is the spatial interconnections among water points, drainage ditches, toilets and the intervening environment. This risk is also longitudinal and variable as water points fluctuate in relation to bacterial contamination. In this paper we consider part of this …
Adding Spatial Context to the April 17, 1975 Evacuation of Phnom Penh
Between 1975 and 1979, upwards of two million men, women, and children perished from starvation, disease, exhaustion, inadequate medical care, torture, murder, and execution during the Cambodian genocide. Within this context, the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh has figured prominently in the literature, especially with regard to the violence encountered on the route. To date, however, there has been no empirical reconstruction of the evacuation. …
Where’s The Crime? Exploring Divergences Between Call Data and Perceptions of Local Crime
Scholars typically use calls to the police to study crime patterning; however, crime reporting may be systematic across space. Using spatial video and geonarrative methodology, we investigate the overlap between perceived crime hot spots among 35 neighbourhood insiders (police officers, ex-offenders and residents) and hot spots gleaned from call data. In general, perceptual hot spots diverge from call data, but in particular, a corner store emerg…
Neighborhood Violence Impacts Disease Control and Surveillance
Arboviruses are responsible for a large burden of disease globally and are thus subject to intense epidemiological scrutiny. However, a variable notably absent from most epidemiological analyses has been the impact of violence on arboviral transmission and surveillance. Violence impedes surveillance and delivery of health and preventative services and affects an individual's health-related behaviors when survival takes priority. Moreover, low and…
Spatial Video Health Risk Mapping in Informal Settlements
Informal settlements pose a continuing health concern. While spatial methodologies have proven to be valuable tools to support health interventions, several factors limit their widespread use in these challenging environments. One such technology, spatial video, has been used for fine-scale contextualized mapping. In this paper, we address one of the limitations of the technique: the global positioning system (GPS) coordinate error. More specific…
How maps change things
The MapAware Series, of which this book is the first, is dedicated to “exposing the hidden bias inherent in traditional world maps”. The way we represent the world matters – from where to place edg
Transcribing from the Mind To the Map
Transcribing what is held in one's mind to a tangible map is experiencing a multidisciplinary renewal. Sketch mapping is being utilized to identify a range of community concerns, as well as for more generally revealing otherwise invisible landscapes. Whether the aim is to understand preference, perception, knowledge, or behavior, the result is some form of map. The genesis of this concept is usually attributed to seminal work in the 1960s and 197…
Enhancing equity with public participatory GIS in hurricane rebuilding
Ensuring equity in the post hurricane recovery context in New Orleans requires a determined engagement by grassroots organizations in all aspects of redevelopment and policy reform at all scales including the neighborhood scale. Faith based leaders formed Churches Supporting Churches (CSC), a coalition of national and local churches committed to advocating for equitable development policies that meet the needs of low income residents at the neigh…
EBay and research in historical geography
Crime in Urban Post-Disaster Environments
This paper considers the interrelationship between residential occupancy status, blight, and crime. An analytical frame is provided for a fine-scale analysis that is sufficiently flexible to capture both spatial and temporal dynamism in field-collected data. Unlike other works linking crime to evidence of disorder within neighborhoods, this paper considers this relationship in terms of neighborhoods affected by an external event (natural disaster…
The clearinghouse concept
The disaster clearinghouse concept originates with the earthquake community as an effort to coordinate research and data collection activities. Though prior earthquake clearinghouses are small in comparison to what was needed in response to Hurricane Katrina, these seminal structures are germane to the establishment of our current model. On 3 September 2005, five days after Katrina wrought cataclysmic destruction along the Gulf Coast, FEMA and Lo…
Large-scale information surfaces
Context and Spatial Nuance Inside a Neighborhood's Drug Hotspot
New geographic approaches are required to tease apart the underlying sociospatial complexity of neighborhood decline to target appropriate interventions. Typically maps of crime hotspots are used with relatively little attention being paid to geographic context. This article helps further this discourse using a topical study of a neighborhood drug microspace, a phrase we use to include the various stages of production, selling, acquiring, and tak…
Historic Disease Data as Epidemiological Resource
Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases continue to pose considerable regional and global concerns. A vital contribution to be made by geographers is in developing an understanding of the spatial structure of these epidemics across various scales. Confidentiality concerns and a general lack of individual data from many developing world areas mean that individual or subneighborhood-scale epidemic information is often unavailable. One alternati…
The post-disaster negative health legacy
Disasters and displacement increasingly affect and challenge urban settings. How do pregnant women fare in the aftermath of a major disaster? This paper investigates the effect of pregnancies in disaster situations. The study tests a hypothesis that pregnant women residing in hurricane-prone areas suffer higher health risks. The setting is Louisiana in the Gulf Coast, United States, a state that continually experiences hurricane impacts. The time…
Private education and disadvantage
It is now nearly thirty years since Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative administration introduced the Assisted Places Scheme (their first education policy) and over ten years since New Labour abolished it. The Scheme, which was designed to provide a ladder of opportunity for academically able students from poor backgrounds to attend private schools, is of more than historical interest. It can be used to illuminate enduring sociological concern…
Adding Spatial Context to the April 17, 1975 Evacuation of Phnom Penh
Between 1975 and 1979, upwards of two million men, women, and children perished from starvation, disease, exhaustion, inadequate medical care, torture, murder, and execution during the Cambodian genocide. Within this context, the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh has figured prominently in the literature, especially with regard to the violence encountered on the route. To date, however, there has been no empirical reconstruction of the evacuation. …
The Evacuation of Phnom Penh during the Cambodian Genocide
On April 17, 1975 Khmer Rouge soldiers began the forcible evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city. The evacuation has been the subject of considerable debate surrounding the Cambodian genocide and remains a topic of prime importance toward the understanding of Khmer Rouge policy and practice. In this field note, we present a geographically-informed account of the evacuation in order to provide a more fine-grained analysis of Khmer Rouge…
Capturing Damage Assessment with a Spatial Video
To reduce the potential loss of life during future significant tornadoes, it is important to understand building and street-scale patterns of damage and mortality from past events. To achieve this, methods of posttornado data collection and damage classification should be rethought. This article addresses these needs through the use of a spatial video and a new Tornado Injury Scale, which has evolved from the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Building damag…
Where’s The Crime? Exploring Divergences Between Call Data and Perceptions of Local Crime
Scholars typically use calls to the police to study crime patterning; however, crime reporting may be systematic across space. Using spatial video and geonarrative methodology, we investigate the overlap between perceived crime hot spots among 35 neighbourhood insiders (police officers, ex-offenders and residents) and hot spots gleaned from call data. In general, perceptual hot spots diverge from call data, but in particular, a corner store emerg…
Contextualizing Overdoses in Los Angeles's Skid Row between 2014 and 2016 by Leveraging the Spatial Knowledge of the Marginalized as a Resource
Opioid drug overdoses in the United States have continued to rise since 2014. Overdoses are one of several interlinked health challenges faced by marginalized populations. Here we side with the argument that these populations can also be a valuable resource to address these challenges, and we use methods that can elevate this critical belief into real-world application. In this article, we use spatially inspired interviews from both marginalized …
Reducing Lead Exposure Risk to Vulnerable Populations
Recent headlines highlight disparities in childhood lead poisoning in urban areas yet discourse does not address the lack of primary prevention options. Previous geographic information systems (GIS) approaches, concentrated on census tracts or ZIP codes, miss contextual understanding of lead exposure and make intervention impractical. Through the combination of electronic medical record (EMR) data from an urban children's hospital and spatial vid…
A multiple additive regression tree analysis of three exposure measures during Hurricane Katrina
This paper analyses structural and personal exposure to Hurricane Katrina. Structural exposure is measured by flood height and building damage; personal exposure is measured by the locations of 911 calls made during the response. Using these variables, this paper characterises the geography of exposure and also demonstrates the utility of a robust analytical approach in understanding health-related challenges to disadvantaged populations during r…
Identifying Spatial Patterns of Recovery and Abandonment in the Post-Katrina Holy Cross Neighborhood of New Orleans
The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina is still being felt by many neighborhoods of New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. As these communities struggle to recover, academia has been forced to acknowledge that there is little known or theorized about the spatial processes of recovery, especially at the fine scale. As a result this paper will investigate how post-disaster landscape characteristics can be extracted from spatial video data for n…
Geospatial Approaches for Disease Risk Communication in Marginalized Communities
Classifying the available GT based on functionality is critical to help specialists provide the most effective method for spatial risk communication and to assist community users in creating accessible data for their local health needs
Large-scale information surfaces
Comparisons in the Spatial Knowledge Surfaces of Subjects From Canada and the United States
This paper advances the spatial‐choice modelling literature by further examining the way in which spatial knowledge is gained. The specific research purpose of this paper is to see how a major boundary (the U.S.A.‐Canada border) will affect the generation of a spatial‐knowledge surface. It is accepted that an important impact on the way an individual makes a spatial choice, such as a decision to migrate, is the amount and quality of the informati…
EBay and research in historical geography
Geospatial Approaches for Disease Risk Communication in Marginalized Communities
Classifying the available GT based on functionality is critical to help specialists provide the most effective method for spatial risk communication and to assist community users in creating accessible data for their local health needs
The clearinghouse concept
The disaster clearinghouse concept originates with the earthquake community as an effort to coordinate research and data collection activities. Though prior earthquake clearinghouses are small in comparison to what was needed in response to Hurricane Katrina, these seminal structures are germane to the establishment of our current model. On 3 September 2005, five days after Katrina wrought cataclysmic destruction along the Gulf Coast, FEMA and Lo…
Identifying Spatial Patterns of Recovery and Abandonment in the Post-Katrina Holy Cross Neighborhood of New Orleans
The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina is still being felt by many neighborhoods of New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. As these communities struggle to recover, academia has been forced to acknowledge that there is little known or theorized about the spatial processes of recovery, especially at the fine scale. As a result this paper will investigate how post-disaster landscape characteristics can be extracted from spatial video data for n…
Private education and disadvantage
It is now nearly thirty years since Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative administration introduced the Assisted Places Scheme (their first education policy) and over ten years since New Labour abolished it. The Scheme, which was designed to provide a ladder of opportunity for academically able students from poor backgrounds to attend private schools, is of more than historical interest. It can be used to illuminate enduring sociological concern…
Enhancing equity with public participatory GIS in hurricane rebuilding
Ensuring equity in the post hurricane recovery context in New Orleans requires a determined engagement by grassroots organizations in all aspects of redevelopment and policy reform at all scales including the neighborhood scale. Faith based leaders formed Churches Supporting Churches (CSC), a coalition of national and local churches committed to advocating for equitable development policies that meet the needs of low income residents at the neigh…
Crime in Urban Post-Disaster Environments
This paper considers the interrelationship between residential occupancy status, blight, and crime. An analytical frame is provided for a fine-scale analysis that is sufficiently flexible to capture both spatial and temporal dynamism in field-collected data. Unlike other works linking crime to evidence of disorder within neighborhoods, this paper considers this relationship in terms of neighborhoods affected by an external event (natural disaster…
A multiple additive regression tree analysis of three exposure measures during Hurricane Katrina
This paper analyses structural and personal exposure to Hurricane Katrina. Structural exposure is measured by flood height and building damage; personal exposure is measured by the locations of 911 calls made during the response. Using these variables, this paper characterises the geography of exposure and also demonstrates the utility of a robust analytical approach in understanding health-related challenges to disadvantaged populations during r…
Capturing Damage Assessment with a Spatial Video
To reduce the potential loss of life during future significant tornadoes, it is important to understand building and street-scale patterns of damage and mortality from past events. To achieve this, methods of posttornado data collection and damage classification should be rethought. This article addresses these needs through the use of a spatial video and a new Tornado Injury Scale, which has evolved from the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Building damag…
An atlas of Northamptonshire the medieval and early-modern landscape
Putting fear of crime on the map
An emerging trend in both the fields of crime and health analysis is the move to a finer scale of investigation – looking at micro places – what I call the scale of intervention. Although the justi
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Anthrax in White-Tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus , and Hematophagous Flies in West Texas during the Summertime Anthrax Risk Period
White-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, anthrax epizootics have been frequently documented in Texas over the last two decades. Once outbreaks begin, there is evidence for the potential role of hematophagous flies as vectors for the disease. Hypotheses on the role of biting flies in the transmission of anthrax date back more than a century. Both laboratory experiments and field studies have provided evidence of a biting fly transmission pathway…
Breaking Out of Surveillance Silos
Historic Disease Data as Epidemiological Resource
Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases continue to pose considerable regional and global concerns. A vital contribution to be made by geographers is in developing an understanding of the spatial structure of these epidemics across various scales. Confidentiality concerns and a general lack of individual data from many developing world areas mean that individual or subneighborhood-scale epidemic information is often unavailable. One alternati…
The post-disaster negative health legacy
Disasters and displacement increasingly affect and challenge urban settings. How do pregnant women fare in the aftermath of a major disaster? This paper investigates the effect of pregnancies in disaster situations. The study tests a hypothesis that pregnant women residing in hurricane-prone areas suffer higher health risks. The setting is Louisiana in the Gulf Coast, United States, a state that continually experiences hurricane impacts. The time…
Mapping to Support Fine Scale Epidemiological Cholera Investigations
The cartographic challenge in many developing world environments suffering a high disease burden is a lack of granular environmental covariates suitable for modeling disease outcomes. As a result, epidemiological questions, such as how disease diffuses at intra urban scales are extremely difficult to answer. This paper presents a novel geospatial methodology, spatial video, which can be used to collect and map environmental covariates, while also…
Context and Spatial Nuance Inside a Neighborhood's Drug Hotspot
New geographic approaches are required to tease apart the underlying sociospatial complexity of neighborhood decline to target appropriate interventions. Typically maps of crime hotspots are used with relatively little attention being paid to geographic context. This article helps further this discourse using a topical study of a neighborhood drug microspace, a phrase we use to include the various stages of production, selling, acquiring, and tak…
Transcribing from the Mind To the Map
Transcribing what is held in one's mind to a tangible map is experiencing a multidisciplinary renewal. Sketch mapping is being utilized to identify a range of community concerns, as well as for more generally revealing otherwise invisible landscapes. Whether the aim is to understand preference, perception, knowledge, or behavior, the result is some form of map. The genesis of this concept is usually attributed to seminal work in the 1960s and 197…
Reducing Lead Exposure Risk to Vulnerable Populations
Recent headlines highlight disparities in childhood lead poisoning in urban areas yet discourse does not address the lack of primary prevention options. Previous geographic information systems (GIS) approaches, concentrated on census tracts or ZIP codes, miss contextual understanding of lead exposure and make intervention impractical. Through the combination of electronic medical record (EMR) data from an urban children's hospital and spatial vid…
Neighborhood Violence Impacts Disease Control and Surveillance
Arboviruses are responsible for a large burden of disease globally and are thus subject to intense epidemiological scrutiny. However, a variable notably absent from most epidemiological analyses has been the impact of violence on arboviral transmission and surveillance. Violence impedes surveillance and delivery of health and preventative services and affects an individual's health-related behaviors when survival takes priority. Moreover, low and…
Spatial Video Health Risk Mapping in Informal Settlements
Informal settlements pose a continuing health concern. While spatial methodologies have proven to be valuable tools to support health interventions, several factors limit their widespread use in these challenging environments. One such technology, spatial video, has been used for fine-scale contextualized mapping. In this paper, we address one of the limitations of the technique: the global positioning system (GPS) coordinate error. More specific…
The Evacuation of Phnom Penh during the Cambodian Genocide
On April 17, 1975 Khmer Rouge soldiers began the forcible evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city. The evacuation has been the subject of considerable debate surrounding the Cambodian genocide and remains a topic of prime importance toward the understanding of Khmer Rouge policy and practice. In this field note, we present a geographically-informed account of the evacuation in order to provide a more fine-grained analysis of Khmer Rouge…
Introduction to special content section “The power of mapping in primary and secondary science education”
The genesis for this special content on the power of mapping in primary and secondary science education is based on our observations from 4 years of leading professional development for teachers on
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