The GEO Health Community of Practice (CoP) and American Geophysical Union (AGU) have partnered to hold the GEO Health CoP virtual meeting on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, as part of the AGU Fall Meeting 2020. As a global network of governments, organizations, and observers, this international platform aims to promote interdisciplinary collaborations that use environmental observations to improve health decision-making at the international, regional, country, and district levels. This meeting will provide an opportunity for members of Earth science and public health communities to describe key international projects and updates, enhance professional networks through work group activities, and discuss priority focus areas that advance GEO and AGU efforts. As a global network of governments, organizations, and observers, this international platform aims to promote interdisciplinary collaborations that use environmental observations to improve health decision-making at the international, regional, country, and district levels. This meeting will provide an opportunity for members of Earth science and public health communities to describe key international projects and updates, enhance professional networks through work group activities, and discuss priority focus areas that advance GEO and AGU efforts.
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Meeting number: 199 410 5451
Meeting password: XkgsCM25y@5
Welcome (8:30AM – 8:45AM EST/GMT-5)
Update on AGU/GEO Health CoP Partnership and Participant Introductions (John Haynes, NASA; Juli Trtanj, NOAA; Mark Shimamoto, AGU; Ben Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University)
GEO Updates (8:45AM – 9:00AM EST/GMT-5)
Update on the GEO Secretariat and GEO Virtual Week 2020 (Steven Ramage, GEO Secretariat Team)
Invited Presentations (10-minutes each) (9:00AM – 10:10AM EST)
Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) (Joy Shumake-Guillemot, WMO)
Dengue MOdel forecasting Satellite-based System (D-MOSS) (Gina Tsarouchi, HR Wallingford)
Predictive Assessment of Transmission Conditions of Cholera in the Environment and Human Population using Earth Observations (Antar Jutla, University of Florida)
GeoHealth: A Geospatial Surveillance and Response System Resource for Vector Borne Disease in the Americas (Jack Malone, Louisiana State University and A&M College)
Myanmar Malaria Early Warning System (Tatiana Loboda, U. of Maryland, College Park)
Environmental Determinants of Enteric Infectious Disease (Ben Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University)
Data Opportunities: Building Capacity and Linkages with Data Science Communities (Kathy Fontaine and Thilanka Munasinghe, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
WMO Workshop and Outcomes (10:10AM – 10:25AM EST/GMT-5)
Update on the WMO Workshop, Outcomes Statement, and Next Steps (Ben Zaitchik, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Neville Sweijd)
AmeriGEO Update (10:25AM – 10:35AM EST/GMT-5)
Update on AmeriGEO activities (Angelica Gutierrez, NOAA)
Updates from Small Work Groups Leads (5-minutes each) (10:35AM – 11:00AM EST/GMT-5)
Predict and Prevent Heat-related Health Risks across Time Scales (Ben Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University)
Predict and Prevent Environmentally-sensitive Infectious Diseases (Antar Jutla, University of Florida)
Air Quality, Wildfires, Respiratory Health (Tatiana Loboda, U. of Maryland, College Park)
Food Security and Safety (Dorian Janney, NASA)
Health Care Infrastructure (John Balbus, NIH/NIEHS; Andreas Skouloudis, iSteep.org and ex-Joint Research Centre)
Next Steps & Closing (11:00AM EST/GMT-5)
Meeting summary and discussion of next steps (John Haynes, NASA; Juli Trtanj, NOAA; Mark Shimamoto, AGU; Ben Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University)