What a pleasure to be hosting the biannual @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference this year in Bristol! ✨ Wonderful papers on our first cluster "blue bodies" 🌊🌊 thank you for the funding, @rgsibg.bsky.social

Starting in Jan '26, my lab will have opportunities for 2 post-doctoral researchers, 1 research associate, and 1 fully-funded PhD student. Stay tuned for more details coming soon 👀!!

Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship! My lab will focus on embedding #equity in #health surveillance with #GeoAI to map how socio-environmental & individual vulnerabilities shape #disease risk.

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New #article from Li et al: A pyramid of human ecology of disease for pandemic preparedness
TL;DR: combine the triangle of human ecology and the triangle of disease ecology into a unified pyramid model.
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Our framework trace emerging epidemic risks from increasing social and environmental disruptions. Prioritising biodiversity conservation, socio-environmental equity, and participatory decision-making will be key to strengthening pandemic preparedness.

In our paper, we:
✏️ Trace the history of human and disease ecology and why integration matters for complex epidemics
✏️ Focus on zoonotic diseases, drawing lessons from COVID-19
✏️ Demonstrate how the framework applies across all stages of an epidemic: emergence → spread → response

We propose the pyramid of human ecology of disease, showing how socio-ecological factors drive disease dynamics across space and time. This draws on the frameworks of human ecology and disease ecology, which span geography, sociology, epidemiology, and ecology.

How do human–environment interactions shape the spread of disease? Excited to share this theoretical contribution, now published in Social Science and Medicine. Co-authored with Mike Emch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

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Check out Chloe's new podcast series!📽️ This is great if you are still learning how to navigate academia as an early career researcher. Thanks Chloe for the invite. I had so much fun sharing my research and career journey and I hope our listeners will find it helpful.

We are delighted to invite papers for the 22nd ENRGHI Conference, a two-day event organised by & for postgraduate & ECRs

Showcasing the breadth of health & wellbeing research, with a focus on Blue Bodies - human, animal & ecological connections to blue spaces

👉 ghwrg.wordpress.com/enrghi-2025-...

📣Calling our mid-career researchers: Our MCR sub-committee is hosting a webinar on practical tips for aspiring Principal Investigators!📣

In this 2hour workshop, Profs Simon Capewell & Ruth Dundas will share insights on planning + managing projects to improve your capability as a PI

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🚨 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁: 🚨 the 𝗺𝗯𝗴 package streamlines model-based geostatistics, with applications ranging from spatial ecology and epidemiology to regional planning.

If you want to predict spatial outcomes based on contextual factors, this package is for you! henryspatialanalysis.github.io/mbg/

This is so neat! Thanks for sharing.

Very pleased to have played a role in this important project!!

Out in @plos.org NTD! Our paper explores changes in dengue transmission in Southeast Asia before/after COVID-19. The pandemic has altered exposure-response relationship at both national and regional levels. Led by Wei Luo (National U of Singapore) and Zhihao Liu (U of Hong Kong).

New paper! Using the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we look at how exposure to residential natural outdoor environments, such as green spaces and freshwater blue spaces, affects cognitive competence of older adults in China. Led by Anqi Chen and Kai Cao, link to paper below.

🚨 We're interested in convening a panel for the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference 2025 with 5 minute quickfire talks from current health geography PGRs, introducing their work & how they relate to the overall theme of creative geographies

Please get in touch if you are interested :)

#GHWRG

Call for papers at the 2025 @rgsibg.bsky.social AM! If you are working at the intersection of health equalities, blue and green spaces, and urban planning, we would love to hear from you! Pls submit your abstract to [email protected] and myself ([email protected]) by Thu 28/02.