Leveraging Advances in Remote Geospatial Technologies to Inform Precision Environmental Health Decisions Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief (2021) / Chapter Skim
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Leveraging Advances in Remote Geospatial Technologies to Inform Precision Environmental Health Decisions: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Leveraging Advances in Remote Geospatial Technologies to Inform Precision Environmental Health Decisions: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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Leveraging Advances in Remote Geospatial Technologies to Inform Precision Environmental Health Decisions, a virtual workshop held on April 14–15, 2021, explored how advances in geospatial technologies can inform "precision environmental health," the targeted public health interventions that reach the right populations at the right time. The workshop was organized by a planning committee of the Standing Committee on the Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies)
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Characterizing the exposome, said Woychik, requires new experimental environmental exposure data." – Rick Woychik approaches and analytical tools to study the physical, chemical, dietary, and psychosocial agents that contribute to the totality of an individual's environmental exposures. Remote geospatial technologies can enhance one's ability to collect environmental exposure data over a wide range of geographic and temporal scales.
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LEVERAGING GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND HEALTH EQUITY Place matters, said Sacoby Wilson (University of Maryland) in introducing the first panel session.
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This research led to a project in which community members used geospatial technologies in a coordinated data collection and mapping campaign to produce highresolution heat maps for El Paso, Texas. The communities then developed collaborative solutions for mitigating the unequal effects of heat exposure.
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Doing so will be particularly important, added Wilson, given that self-determination is a core principle of environmental justice. PERSONALIZING EXPOSURE SCIENCE TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Quantifying personal health effects resulting from environmental exposures is critical for advancing precision health science and supporting further research on environmental health problems, said Jing Li (University of Denver)
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However, geospatial infrastructure and reliable, rapid analytical techniques were unavailable to identify precision environmental risk factors for COVID-19. Zaitchik said that public, near-real-time geospatial databases are available, but they are unwieldy, sometimes error prone, and not ready to be integrated consistently across the globe.
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In a discussion with all of the session participants, when asked to identify some of the opportunities for novel geospatial technologies in the environmental health field, Habre said this is the chance to learn what makes people different in their responses to environmental exposures by improving the inputs to the models that researchers have developed so as to generalize to larger populations. James offered that plenty of data are available; the challenge is to integrate them in a way that is useful to individuals.
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Administrative data can be georeferenced and therefore connected to all types of geospatial data. As an example, she described how she used birth record data, data from a childhood blood lead screening program, vaccination records, and residential address data to estimate the environmental exposures that children experience over time.
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Forest Service's BlueSky Forecasting System to predict the burden of emergency department visits for respiratory problems associated with wildfire smoke for counties across the United States. Planning for Environmental Justice, Hazard Vulnerability, and Critical Infrastructure in Communities of Color Urban flooding is an environmental hazard that is becoming more frequent, with Hurricane Harvey's inundation of the Houston area in 2017 being a prime example, said Marccus Hendricks (University of Maryland)
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At the same time, it is important not just to engage a community to acquire data but also to report back to those communities and help them use those data. BREAKOUT SESSIONS: REFLECTION ON EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PATH AHEAD Workshop attendees participated in one of four breakout discussions focused on cross-cutting issues for using geospatial technologies to inform precision environmental health decisions.
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Agencies might also consider a data-sharing platform, similar to ClinicalTrials.gov, to avoid the time and cost of having each project address these issues. Discussion The final discussion period addressed issues related to funding transdisciplinary research and training and the ethical and privacy considerations that can accompany the application of geospatial technologies to inform environmental health decisions.
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2021. Leveraging Advances in Remote Geospatial Technologies to Inform Precision Environmental Health Decisions: Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief.
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