JONATHAN D. MAYER

April, 2006

 

 

OFFICE ADDRESS:

Department of Geography,

Box 353550

University of Washington

Seattle, WA  98195

Tel. (206) 543-7110

FAX:  (206) 543-3313

E-Mail:  jmayer(at)u.washington.edu    

Webpage: http://faculty.washington.edu/jmayer

 

EMPLOYMENT:

Professor of Epidemiology, Geography, and International Health; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Health Services, University of Washington;; Clinical consultant, Travel and Tropical Medicine Service, and Infectious Disease Clinic, University of Washington Medical Center; Associate, WWAMI Rural Health Research Center; Associate, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology: Affiliate, Center for AIDS and STD Research (CFAR).

 

 

PAST EMPLOYMENT:

Visiting Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 1997-1998

 

Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Washington, 1977-1981; Associate Professor, 1981-1985.

 

Visiting Professor, University of Trondheim, Norway, 1987, 1994, and 1999 (renamed Norwegian Technical and Natural Sciences University).

 

Transportation Planner, Great Lakes Basin Commission, Ann Arbor, MI, 1976.

 

Transportation Research Associate, Highway Safety Research Institute, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976.

 

Director of Data Analysis and Consultant, Institute for Community Design Analysis, New York City, 1974-1975.

 

Computer Systems Analyst, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Office of Information Services, New York City, 1973.

 

Consultant, United Transportation Union, Cleveland, OH, 1971-1972.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Medical geography; ecology, epidemiology, and spatial analysis of infectious diseases, especially emerging pathogens; travel and tropical medicine; global health; HIV in sub-Saharan Africa;; health consequences of natural and human-generated disasters.; global climate change and public health; environmental influences on health; historical geography of disease; medical ethics

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. (1977) and M.A. (1975) in Geography, The University of Michigan. Training in clinical medicine and public health.

 

B.A. in History (Distinction) and Urban Studies (High Distinction), University of Rochester, 1973

 

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING:

 

W.K. Kellogg National Fellow in bioethics and health policy, 1984-1987

University of Washington Bioethics Institute, Summer 1991.

 

"Leadership Tomorrow."  Leadership and community service training program, United Way and Chamber of Commerce, 1991-1992.

 

New England Epidemiology Institute/Tufts University. Summer, 1998. Courses in advanced epidemiologic methods, pharmacoepidemiology, health outcomes, cost-effectiveness methods in health services, logistic regression, and clinical trials.

 

Clinical Symposium, Travel and Tropical Medicine, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Philadelphia, December 2003.

 

“Research in HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections.” University of Washington School of Medicine, July, 2005.

 

COURSES TAUGHT:

 

The Geography of Health and Health Care (GEOG 280); Geographical Patterns of Health (GEOG 380); Environmental Geography, Climate, and Health (GEOG 480); Medical Geography (cross-listed in Department of Health Services—GEOG 580/HSERV 586); Seminar in Medical Geography (GEOG 581—crosslisted in Health Services); Evolution of and Virulence of Infectious Disease (cross-listed in Biological Anthropology).

 

Past courses taught:

Introduction to Geography (500 students); Transportation Geography; Contemporary Philosophies and Methodologies in Geography; Undergraduate Seminar in Public Health; Economic Geography; Transportation Geography; Intraurban Spatial Patterns.

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED:

 

E. Carol Hollenbeck, "Open Space at the Urban Periphery," M.A., 1979.

Howard J. Thiersch, "Networks and Schedules:  A Look at Airline Strategies," M.A., 1980. Currently in law practice, Seattle, WA.

Sheila J. Moss, "Stress, Change, and a Sense of Place:  Some Thoughts on Providing Care for Cancer Patients," M.A., 1980.

Lori E. Cohn, "Residential Patterns of the Jewish Community of the

Seattle Area, 1910-1980," M.A., 1980.  Self-employed as  independent real estate appraiser and development marketer.

Elizabeth R. Kohlenberg, "Geography and the Demand for Mental Health Services," M.A., 1982.  "Friends in Places," Ph.D. 1989. Currently director of research with Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.

Richard Snyder, "Regional Economic Structure and Air Passenger Generation," M.A., 1981. 

Jay Lund, "Urban Liveaboards and the Community," M.A., 1983. Currently Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of  California - Davis.

Elizabeth S. Selke, "The Geography and Seasonality of Suicide in Washington State," M.A., 1984.  Currently employed as researcher, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle..

Nancy A. Fisher, Ph.D. in medical geography completed August, 1986. Currently researcher, Battelle Insitute, Seattle, WA.

Iain Hay, Ph.D. in medical geography, 1989.  Currently Professor and Chair, School of Geography, Flinders University, Australia.

Amanda Whelan, M.A. in medical geography, 1989. Ph.D. in medical geography, University of Cardiff, Wales, 1994.

Katherine Harris, M.A. in medical geography, December 1992. "Spatial Patterns of Helping Neighbor Networks for the Elderly: A Case Study." Currently employed in planning services for elderly Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup, WA..

Kevin McCollister, M.A. in medical geography, 1992.

Michael Mohrman, M.A. in medical geography. 1992.

Kate Friesen, R.N., MSN, M.A. in medical geography, 1992. "A Geography of Health Model and Rural Health Care Access Issues."

Michael Pirani, Ph.D. in medical geography, 1994. "Understanding the Effects of Small Rural Hospital Closure on Rural Communities." Currently Research Scientist, Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina  at Chapel Hill.

Renee Garber, M.A, 1995. Currently in law practice.

Frank Norris, Ph. D., 1995. "Spatial Diffusion of Intermodal Rail Technologies." Currently Historian, Alaska National Parks.

Eric Larson, Ph.D, 1995. "Geographic Variation in the Risk of Poor Birth Outcome in the Non-Metropolitan Population of the United States, 1985- 1987.  Currently Research Scientist, MEDEX Northwest, School of Medicine, University of Washington. 

Meredith Fordyce, Ph.D. in medical geography, 2005, MA, 1992.  Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington. Doctoral Opportunities Program, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, NIH

Fellow. 

Chris Roberts, RPT, M.A. in medical geography, Ph.D. in medical

Geography 1995. Currently Research Assistant Professor, Missouri Psychiatric Institute, Univesity of Missouri.

Jonathan Smith, M.A. in medical geography, 1994.

Mary-Katherine Goodwin, M.A. in medical geography, 1996. Currently 3rd  year resident in OB/GYN, Asheville, NC.

Charles O'Donnell, M.A. in medical geography, 1998.

Caroline Archibald Lange, M.A. in historical geography, 1997.

Joe Miller, MA in medical geography, 2002. Currently health care consultant.

Mary C. Tillotson-Criss. MPH, 2002.

David R. Abernathy, Ph.D. in medical geography, 2000. Currently Assistant Professor, Warren Wilson College, North Carolina.

David Paschane, Ph.D. in medical geography, 2003. Currently Presidential Management Fellow, VA, Washington DC.

Karin Johnson, Ph. D. in medical geography, 2003. Currently Research Scientist Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative.

Beth Kirlin, MA in medical geography in progress.

Joseph Egger. MA in medical geography, 2004. Currently PhD student, Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Sunil Aggarwal. MD-PhD student in medicine, UW Medical School and medical geography, Department of Geography, in progress.

Emily Brunson, MPH in Epidemiology, 2005. Currently PhD student in Biological Anthropology, University of Washington.

Sarah Paige, PhD in medical geography in progress.

Amber Pearson, PhD in medical geography in progress.

Todd Faubion, PhD in medical geography in progress.

Michelle Bilodeau, MA in medical geography in progress.

Katrina van Valen Moore, PhD in Epidemiology in progress.

 

COMMITTEES AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

 

Professional Service:

 

Editorial Board, The Professional Geographer, 2005-present.

 

Editorial Board, Geographical Research Forum, 2000-present.

 

Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research Priorities on the Earth Sciences and Public Health, 2004-present.

 

Member, National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on The Geographical Sciences, 2004-present.

 

Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Identifying Vulnerable Populations in Times of Humanitarian Need, 2005-present.

 

Member, National Institutes of Health Review Panel on Epidemiology and Disease Control (EDC-3), 2001-present. Panel renamed Epidemiology of Clinical Disorders and Aging (ECDA), 2003-2005. Appointed to panel on Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Reproductive Disorders, Asthma, and Pulmonary Disorders (IRAP), 2005-2010

 

Member, “Mobilizing Academic Resources to Improve Surveillance for Emerging Infectious Diseases in Asia and the Pacific”—task force funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2005.

 

Steering Committee, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Program on Climate and Health, 2004..

 

Co-editor, Encyclopedia of Public Health (8 volumes), Elsevier Press. Responsible for editing chapters, recruiting authors, and structuring sections on emerging and resurgent infectious diseases, 2004-present.

 

External Examiner (“Opponent”), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 2001-2002; 2003, 2005.

 

Member, National Institutes of Health Review Panel on Social Sciences, Nursing, Epidemiology and Methods (SNEM), 2001-2002.

 

Grants Selection Committee, Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance, 2002-2004..

  

Advisor, Task Force on Community Preventive Services, Centers for Disease Control. Appointed May, 1999.

 

National Research Council/Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Committee on Climate, Ecosystems, Infectious Diseases, and Health (CEIDH), 1999-2001. Charge of the Committee was to evaluate the scientific evidence on the relations between climate and infectious disease. Culminated in publication of Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease.  Washington: National Academy Press, 2001.

 

Editorial Board, Health and Place, 1997-2005.

 

Editorial Board, Geographical Research Forum, 2000-present.

 

External Examiner, University of Victoria. Two PhD exams, 1999-2000

 

Board Member, Medical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 1995-1997.

 

Book Review Editor, The Professional Geographer, 1994 -1997.

 

External Examiner, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 1992, 2000, 2001. 

 

Editorial Board, Journal of Rural Health, 1991- 1992.

 

National Steering Committee, "Access to Care in Rural Areas,” Grant from NIH to University of Nebraska, 1989-1991.

 

Editor, Medical Geography Newsletter, 1980-1986. 

 

Chairman, Medical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 1980-1983. Board member, 1995-97.

 

Member, AAAS Panel on CO2-Induced Climate Change and Human and Animal Health.

 

 

University Service:

 

Honors Program Director, Department of Geography, 2004-present.

 

Board of Governors, Program on the Environment, 2003-present.

 

Co-Director, Undergraduate Major in Public Health, 2000-present.

 

Steering Committee, Undergraduate Program in Public Health, 1996-present.

 

Search Committee for Chair, Department of Geography, 2000.

 

Executive Committee, Department of Geography, various times, including 2005; Development Committee, Department of Geography, 1999-present;.

 

Curriculum Committee, Department of Geography, 1999-2001.

 

Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Geography, 1991-1993,; 1998-1999; 2001-2002; 2004-2005.

 

Director, Undergraduate Program in Public Health, 1995-1997.

 

Member, Student Records Committee, 1996-1997.

 

Honors Director, Department of Geography, 1993-96.

 

Co-founder, Emerging Diseases Working Group, University of Washington, 1995-

 

President, University of Washington Chapter, American Association of University Professors, 1995-1996.

 

Chair, Faculty Council on Academic Standards, 1994 –1995.

 

Elected voting member of Faculty Senate Executive Committee,

1994-1995; 1995-1996.

           

Steering Committee, proposed undergraduate college, 1994.

 

Nominating Committee, Faculty Senate, 1994.

           

Board of Directors, University of Washington Chapter, American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

 

Executive Committee, Department of Geography, 1993-1994, 1998-1999, 2005.

 

Member, Graduate School Fund Review Panel, 1990-1994. 

 

Program Development Committee, Department of Geography, Chair 1990-1991. 

 

Faculty Hiring Committee, Department of Geography Chair, 1990-1991

 

Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Geography, 1988 - 1989. 

 

Chair, Special Committee on the Social Science Institute, 1987.

 

Special Committee on the Social Sciences, 1985-1986. 

 

Chairman, Search Committee, Department of Geography, 1985-86, 1988. 

 

Transportation faculty search committee, Department of Civil Engineering, 1982-1983. 

 

Executive Committee, Department of Geography, 1979-1980, and 1983-1984. 

 

Chairman, Ph.D. Review Committee, Department of Geography, 1983. 

 

Admissions Committee, Department of Geography, 1978-1980; 1982-1989; 1991-1993. 

 

Curriculum Committee, Department of Geography, 1977-78, and 1980-81, Chairman, 1987-88. 

 

Grievance Committee (alternate), Faculty Senate, 1980-82. 

 

Transportation Research Group, 1980-

 

Urban and Regional Science Research Group, 1977-81. 

 

Affiliate, Center for Health Services Research, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, 1978-82. 

 

European Studies Group, 1977-78. 

 

 

Community Service:

 

Medico-legal consulting, Gregg Tinker, Esq., Tinker-Kidman, Seattle, WA, 2004-2005.

 

Expert witness and consultant, NAACP, Contra Costa County, California, 1994, on equity of access to health care.

 

Member, Ethics Committee, Northwest Hospital, Seattle and Chief, Clinical Ethics Consultation Service. 1986-1993.

 

Member, Board of Directors, King County Health Planning Council. 1980-1987. 

 

Member, Facilities Review Committee, King County Health Planning Council, 1985-1989.

 

Expert witness, Griffin vs. Reno County Ambulance Co., Federal District Court, Wichita, KA, October 1982

 

Consultant, Washington State Health Facilities Association, 1982. 

 

Seattle Medic-I Program (Paramedic Program, Seattle Fire Department). 1977-80. 

 

King County Health Planning Council, member of Primary Care Committee 1980.

 

Puget Sound Health Systems Agency advisor 1979. 

 

Southeast Effective Development (SEED), uncompensated consulting on community-based emergency medical services study, 1979-80. 

 

Seattle Area Hospital Council, consulting on regional emergency care study, 1978. 

 

Crisis Intervention and Emergency Therapy, volunteer, Emergency Room, Northwest Hospital, Seattle, 1981-1988. 

 

 

INVITED LECTURES:

 

"Geography and Medical Emergencies,” Department of Geography, University of California - Berkeley, 1978. 

 

"A Spatial Analysis of Urban Medical Emergencies and Cardiac Arrests." Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Winter 1979. 

 

"Spatial Analysis and Epidemiologic Method."   Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1979. 

 

"Medical Geography and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.” Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1979. 

 

"Man, Space, and the Environment:  The Study of Geography."  University Unitarian Church Lecture Series, May 1980. 

 

"The Distance Behavior of Hospital Patients:  A Disaggregated Analysis."  Department of Health Services, University of Washington, 1980.

 

"Regional Effects of the Mt. St. Helens Eruption."  Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, 1980.  

 

"The Changing Geography of Jewish Population in the United States."  Congregation Herzl Ner Tamid, Mercer Island, WA, 1981. 

 

"Medical Geography:  Its Relevance for Epidemiology."  Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1981. 

 

"Medical Geography:  An Emerging Field."  Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, 1983. 

 

"Influenza in Seattle, 1918-1919."  Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, 1983. 

 

"Medical Geography of Rural Areas."  Nurse Practitioner Program, Department of Community Health Care Systems, School of Nursing, University of Washington, 1983-84. 

 

"Characteristics of Rural Hospital Closures."  Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, 1983. 

 

Invited lectures, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Medicine and Geography), University of Haifa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November/December, 1983. 

 

"Spatial Patterns of Rural Hospital Closure."  Department of Health Services, University of Washington, 1984. 

 

"Medical Geography:  An Emerging Discipline."  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Washington, 1984. 

 

"Geographical Patterns of Multiple Sclerosis."  University of Hawaii, Department of Geography, 1985. 

 

"The Centrality of Medical Geography to Human Geography.” Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, 1985. 

 

"Medical Geography."  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Washington, 1985.

 

"Introduction to Medical Geography."  Department of Family Medicine, Fellows' Seminar lecture, 1986. 

 

"International Perspectives on Defining Basic Health Care Services." Annual meeting, King County Health Planning Council, 1986. 

 

"The Generalist and Future Health Care."  Department of Family Medicine, 1986. 

 

"Medical Geography and Clinical Travel/Tropical Medicine."  Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic, University Hospital, 1986.

 

"Dengue Fever, Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, and Dengue Shock Syndrome:  Diagnosis, Clinical Management, and Epidemiology."  Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic, University Hospital, 1987. 

 

"Cuban Health Problems."  Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic, University Hospital, 1987. 

 

"Explorations into Cuban Health Care."  Department of Geography, and International Health Program, University of Washington, 1987, and Department of Geography, University of Trondheim, 1987. 

 

"Doing Interdisciplinary Research in Social Science and Medicine." Visiting Professor of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill, 1987. 

 

"Basic Concepts of Bioethics and a Case Presentation."  Ethics Committee, Northwest Hospital, 1987. 

 

Visiting Professor, University of Trondheim, Norway, 1987, and 1993.  Guest lectures:  "The Relevance of Medical Geography to Social Medicine and Public Health," Department of Social Medicine: Numerous lectures in special research course in medical geography.

 

"Spatial Analysis and Disease Causation."  Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Norway, 1987. 

 

"A Framework for the International Comparison of Health Care Systems."  Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromso, Norway, 1987. 

 

"The Ecology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Trypanosomiasis."  Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic, University Hospital, October 1987. 

 

"Principles/Factors Which Enter Into Ethical Clinical Decision Making."  Presented at continuing medical education symposium, "Medical Ethics:  Present Dilemmas and Future Challenges."  Northwest Hospital, CME course, March, 1988. 

 

"Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers."  Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic, University Hospital, April 1988. 

 

"Ethical Principles Which Should Guide Daily Practice:  Why They Do and Why They Don't."  Northwest Hospital, CME course, "Ethics and Nursing Practice:  How Not to Get Caught in the

Middle," November, 1988. 

 

"Disease As Natural Hazard," and "Medical Geography into Medical Ethics: The Moral Implications of Health Facility Location."  The Pennsylvania State University, December, 1988. 

 

"Medical Ethics:  Clinical Applications."  Medical Staff, Kline-Galland Nursing Home, Seattle, January, 1989. 

 

"Geographical Perspectives on Health and Poverty."  Department of Health Services, Spring 1989. 

 

"Geography and Emergency Medical Systems."  Department of Health Services, July, 1989. 

 

"Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and Yellow Fever."  Tropical Medicine Clinic, University of Washington Medical Center, September, 1989. 

 

"Alternative National Health Care Strategies for the U.S."  UW Retirement Association, October 1989. 

 

"Medical Geography and Small Area Analysis."  Clinical Scholars Program, October 1989. 

 

"A Values Comparison of the British, Canadian, and American Health Care Systems, Northwest Hospital, February 15, 1990. 

 

"Human Values in Health Care:  A Comparison of the British, Canadian, and American Systems."  Humanism in Medicine Program, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, First Gheen's Foundation Annual Lecture, March 20, 1990. 

 

"The Role and Function of Hospital Ethics Committees."  University of Louisville/Humana Hospital, March 20, 1990. 

 

"Medical Geography and Human Values."  Department of Geography, University of Louisville, March 21, 1990. 

 

"Social Values and Health Care Systems."  International Health Program, October 1990. 

 

"Diagnosis and Treatment of Tropical Hemorrhagic Fevers." Tropical Medicine Clinic, October 1990. 

 

"The Canadian Health System from an American Values Perspective."  Simon Fraser University,.  Canadian Symposium on Medical Geography.  February 1991.

 

"An Ethical Framework for the Analysis of Euthanasia and Initiative 119."  Continuing Medical Education course, Northwest Hospital, October 1991. 

 

"Problems in Defining Geographic Areas for Medical Procedures." Indiana University School of Medicine, Regenstreif Institute, October 1991. 

 

"Geography and Waterborne Diseases."  Geography Awareness Week Speaker, Western Washington University, 1993. 

 

"Medical Geography and Demography."  Center for Studies on Demography and Ecology, 1994. 

 

"Anesthesia Services and Surgery in Rural Areas."  WAMI Rural Health Research Center

 

"Delusions of Parasitoses," Infectious Disease Service, U.W. Medical Center, September 1995.

 

"Medical Geography." Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, 1995.

 

"Do Emerging Diseases Represent a New Stage in Demographic Transition Theory? Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, 1996

 

"Emerging Diseases: the Local and Global Threats." World Health Day, April, 1997.

 

"The Political Ecology of Emerging Infectious Diseases." New Diseases Group, Harvard University, November, 1997.

 

"Emerging Infectious Diseases and Political Ecology." University of Texas School of Public Health, November, 1998.

 

"Medical Geography and Development." Norwegian University of Science and Technology, September, 1999.

 

“Migration and Malaria: The WHO and the “Roll Back Malaria Program.” Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, 1998.

 

“The Political Ecology of Lyme Disease in the Northeastern United States,” Department of Geography, University of Washington, 1998.

 

“Global Climate Change and Infectious Disease Patterns.” Department of Geography, 1999.

 

“Geographical Mysteries and West Nile Virus.” Department of Geography, 2000.

 

D. Kuo and Jonathan Mayer, “Smoking at Mid-Life and Public Health.” Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, 2000.

 

“Social Values and Health Care in the United States and Canada.” Canadian Studies Colloquium, University of Washington, 2000.

 

“Uncertainty, Climate Change, and Human Health.” Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington, 2001.

 

“Climate Change and Infectious Disease: Implications for Population and the Social Science.” Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, 2002.

 

“Health Perspectives on Sustainability.” Panel member, Department of Geography Colloquium, University of Washington, 2002.

 

“Geography and Epidemiology: Parallel and Divergent Views of Environment and Society.” Department of Epidemiology, May, 2002.

 

“Uncertainty and the Relationship between Climate Change and Infectious Diseases.” Department of Zoology, December, 2002.

 

“SARS and the Media” (with Patricia Moy) and “Does Avian Influenza Constitute a Threat to Global Health?” Department of Geography Colloquium, May, 2005.

 

“Evolution of Virulence.” Guest lecture, Department of Epidemiology “Emerging Infections,” February 2006..

 

“Applications of GIS and Spatial Analysis to Infectious Diseases Epidemiology.” Guest lecture, Department of Epidemiology, ‘Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases,” February, 2006.

Papers and Presentations:

 

"Winter Navigation Policies on the Great Lakes.” Annual Meeting, East Lakes Division, Association of American Geographers, 1976.

 

"Energy, Coal Transportation Patterns, and Environmental Regulation."  With Donald R. Deskins, Jr.  Invited paper at American-Hungarian Geography Symposium, Ann Arbor, 1978.

 

"A Geographical Consideration of Seattle's Medic-I Program."Refereed paper presented at Third National Emergency Medical Services Evaluation Symposium, National Center for Health Services Research. Published abstract, 1978. 

 

"Paramedic Response Time and Survival from Cardiac Arrest."  Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, 1979. 

 

"A Predictive Model of Cardiac Arrest Location."  Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Louisville, KY, 1980. 

 

"Migrant Studies and Medical Geography."  Invited paper, North Carolina Symposium on Medical Geography, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, 1980. 

 

"Urban Health Care Planning in a Spatial Context:  A Critical Analysis."  Invited paper, Fifth Advanced Summer Institute in Regional Science, Soesterberg, Netherlands, 1980. 

 

"Relations between two Traditions of Medical Geography."  Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 1981. 

 

Chair, "Geographical Epidemiology and Health Services Research," Special session, Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 1981.  Also organized and chaired special sessions on "Geographical Epidemiology and Health Services Research," and organized and chaired Business Meeting, Medical Geography Specialty Group.

 

"Influenza in Seattle, 1918-1919:  Urban Crisis and Response." Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Denver, 1983. 

 

"The Use of Spatial Analysis and Geographic Data in the Detection of Disease Causation."  Invited paper, International Conference on the Social Sciences and Medicine, University of Stirling, 1983. 

 

"International Perspectives on the Health Care Crisis in the United States." Plenary Address, Joint Institute of British Geographers/Association of American Geographers Symposium on Medical Geography, University of Nottingham, 1985. 

 

With Nancy D. Lewis. "Disease as Natural Hazard."  Joint Institute of British Geographers/Association of American Geographers International Symposium on Medical Geography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1986. 

 

With Richard L. Morrill.  "A Framework for the Analysis of Migration and Health."  Invited paper, Medical Geography Specialty Group Special Session, Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, 1986. 

 

With Nancy D. Lewis.  "Health Care in Post-Revolutionary Cuba."  Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, March, 1989. 

 

"Why Do Some Rural Residents Leave Their Home Communities for Outpatient Visits?"  Association of American Geographers, Toronto, April 1990. 

 

"Social Values and Health Care Systems."  Association of American Geographers, Miami, April 1991. 

 

"Challenges to Understanding Spatial Patterns of Disease: Alternatives to Logical Positivism."  Invited discussion Paper, International Conference on the Social Sciences and Medicine, Peebles, Scotland, 1992. 

 

"The Political Ecology of Disease."  IBG/IGU Symposium on Medical Geography, University of Exeter, England, July 1993. 

 

"Moral Relativism and Medical Geography:  The Role of Locality."  International Symposium on Medical Geography, University of British Columbia, July 1994. 

 

Organizer and Chair, Medical Geography Specialty Group Special Session, "Geographical Perspectives on Influenza." Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Denver, 1983.

 

Organizer and chair, "Spatial Analysis and Disease," by invitation, International Conference on the Social Sciences and Medicine, University of Stirling, Scotland, 1983. 

 

Invited organizer and chair, "Distribution of Health Services Within and Between Nations."  International Conference on the Social Sciences and Medicine, Helsinki, Finland, July, 1985.

 

Chairman, "Quantitative Models in Medical Geography."  Medical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, 1986. 

 

Chairman and organizer, "Future Directions in Medical Geography." Medical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, 1986. 

 

"Disease as Natural Hazard," with Nancy D. Lewis, and panelist on "Health Policy in the United States."  Second International Symposium on Medical Geography, Rutgers University, July 1986. 

 

"Clinically Applied Medical Geography:  Its Relevance for Travel Medicine."  International Geographical Union, Working Group on Health, Tasmania, Australia, August 1988. 

 

"Health Care and Social Values:  A Comparison of The Canadian and U.S. Health Systems."  Invited paper, International Symposium on Medical Geography, Norwich, UK, July 1990. 

 

"Confusion and Conflict About the Goals of Medicine in the Age of Life Supports."  With Terry J. Barnett.  Refereed paper for "Moral Philosophy in the Public Domain."  University of British Columbia, June 1990.

 

"From Medical Geography to Clinical Ethics and Back Again." Keynote Address, International Medical Geography Symposium, Charlotte, N.C. August 1992.

 

"The Political Ecology of Emerging Disease." Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Charlotte, N.C., 1996.

 

"Locality and the Political Ecology of Emerging Diseases." International Symposium on Medical Geography, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, U.K. July, 1996.

 

"Social Science, Human Ecology, and Emerging Diseases." American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle, February 1997.

 

"Geography, Ecology, and Emerging Infectious Diseases." Invited plenary lecture, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Boston, April, 1998.

 

"Climate Change and Human Health." Keynote speaker, Washington State Environmental Health Association, Bellingham, WA, May, 1998.

 

"Shadows of the Past and Visions of the Future: Health and Society in the 21st Century." Keynote address, International Symposium on Medical Geography, Towson, Maryland, 1998.

 

"Geography, Culture, and Emerging Infections." Plenary speaker, American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science, Tacoma, WA., October, 1998.

 

"Geography, Ecology, and Emerging Infectious Diseases." Invited lecture, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Boston, April, 1998.

 

"The Political Ecology of Lyme Disease in the Northeastern United States." Association of American Geographers, Boston, March, 1998

 

“Managed Care in the United States: Its Relevance to Canada.” Plenary Speaker, Western Canada Health Care Ministries, 1996.

 

"Response to an Emerging Disease: The E. coli 0157:H7 Outbreak in Washington State." Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, March, 1999.

 

"Casuistry, Moral Relativism, and Locality." Special session sponsored by Medical Geography Specialty Group on "Ethics and Medical Geography," Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, March, 1999.

 

D. Kuo and J. Mayer, "Poverty, Family Background, and Smoking at Mid-Life." Population Association of America,  refereed paper, annual meeting, Los Angeles, March 2000.

 

“Place, Telemedicine, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.” Plenary paper, International Symposium on Medical Geography, Montreal, 2000.

 

“Social Factors in Emerging Infections.” Plenary paper, International Symposium on Medical Geography, Montreal, 2000.

 

“Human and Social Factors and Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Critical Analysis.” Invited background paper, International Conference on the Social Sciences and Medicine, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2000.

 

“Globalization and Changing Vector Ecologies: Political Geographic Perspectives.” Invited paper, Forum on Emerging Diseases, Institute or Medicine (National Academies), seminar on “Globalization and Emerging Diseases,” Washington, 2002.

 

With Joseph A. P. Miller. “Beyond Hospital-Level Effects: Surgeons, Volume, and Outcomes in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.” Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March, 2003.

 

“HIV/AIDS as an Obstacle to Development in Africa.” Invited lecture, University of Ghana, Accra, January, 2004.

 

“Reconstructing the Spatial Epidemiology of SARS.” With Kam Wing Chan. Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March, 2004

 

“Poverty, Gender, and HIV in Ghana.” Centre for AIDS Research, University of Southampton, June 2004.

 

“Disease Ecology and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.” Symposium Commemorating Opening of Centre for AIDS Research, University of Southampton, held at Medical Research Council, London, June 2004.

 

“Integrating the Social into Climate-Health Associations.” National Center for Atmospheric Research, July, 2005.

 

“Comparative Dynamics of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and       Asia.” Invited plenary lecture, Symposium on Population Dynamics and Infectious Disease, Singapore, October 2004. Sponsored by National University of Singapore, Australian National University, and Wellcome Trust.

 

“HIV-AIDS and the Socio-Ecological Model: Where is the Ecology?” Invited plenary paper, Symposium on Social and Ecological Aspects of Emerging Infectious Diseases. East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i, March 2005. Co-sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine, John Burns School of Medicine, University Hawai’i.

 

“SARS and the Media: A Cross-National Analysis.” With Patricia Moy. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, April 2005.

 

A.L. Pearson, G. Lovasi, B.B. Psaty, J. D. Mayer. “Walking for Physical Activity and Objective Crime Data in Five Counties in Washington.” Paper presented at annual meeting, Association of American Geographers, March, 2006.

 

J.F. Bell, F.J. Zimmerman, G.R. Almgren, J.D. Mayer, C.E. Huebner. “Racial Residential Segregation and Birthweight: The Role of Specific Dimension of Segregations.” Paper presented at Population Association of America, March, 2006.

 

“Health Effects of Natural Disasters.” Invited plenary talk, American Academy of Physician Assistants, San Francisco, May, 2006.

 

GRANTS:

 

“New Faces of Poverty in Ghana.” Co-Investigator and Division subdirector, Health. $1.5 million to Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim from NORAD, Norway. My portion concentrates on HIV, poverty, and gender. Recent concentration on HIV orphans with Dr. Ragnhild Lund, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

 

“Washington State Pharmacy Study.” Co-investigator with John Loeser, MD. Grant ($25,000) from Purdue Pharmaceuticals to investigate geographical patterns of availability of outpatient pain medications in Washington State.

 

Institutional Research Grant, "The Canadian Health Care System" Office of Academic Relations, Canadian Embassy.

 

"A Small Area Analysis of Back Surgery in Washington State," National Center for Health Services Research, National Institutes of Health. Department of Neurological Surgery, with John Loeser, M.D., co-principal investigator. 

 

"Spatial and Demographic Determinants of Rural Hospital Viability," National Science Foundation, 1983-1984.  Department of Family Medicine, Co-Principal Investigator with Roger A. Rosenblatt, M.D., M.P.H.

 

Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Block Travel Grant to Association of American Geographers for attendance at International Conference on the Social Sciences and Medicine, Scotland, 1983.

 

Rural Hospital Project, Kellogg Foundation, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, 1983-present.  Project member and one of the proposal authors on this $1.2 million demonstration project to increase the viability of rural hospitals in the Pacific Northwest.

 

"Patterns of Mortality in Early Seattle."  Biomedical Research Grant, Graduate School Research Fund, University of Washington, and U.S. Public Health Service, 1981. 

 

"Patient Travel Patterns."  Rhode Island Center for Health Services Research and National Center for Health Statistics, National Institutes of Health, 1979.

 

"Geographical Aspects of Emergency Medical Services."  Department of Health Services Seed Grant, University of  Washington, 1978.

 

"Air Services to Small Communities."  Graduate School Research Fund, University of Washington, 1978. 

 

Dissertation Grant.  Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The University of Michigan, 1976-77.

 

AWARDS/OTHER HONORS:

 

Horace Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, The University of Michigan, 1975-77.  

 

Graduate Fellowship, The University of Michigan, 1974-75.

 

Ford Foundation Fellowship, The University of Michigan, 1973-74. 

 

Visiting Research Fellowship, Rhode Island Health Services Research, Providence, RI, 1979. 

 

German Marshall Fund Travel Grant, 1980.  To attend Fifth Advanced Summer Institute in Regional Science, Soesterberg, The Netherlands, 1980.

 

Kellogg National Fellow, 1984-1987.  Selected as one of 43 fellows out of 860 applicants for this three year fellowship to study the multidimensional ethical, humanistic, economic and social implications and bases of health care policy.  This has included participant observation in cardiothoracic surgery, family practice, emergency medicine, and tropical/travel medicine.  The Fellowship has also included an emphasis on international health, and on leadership development. 

 

National Research Council Travel Grant.  To attend International Geographical Union, 1988. 

 

Elected to membership, American College of Epidemiology, 2003.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

 

Association of American Geographers; American Public Health Association; American Society for Human Genetics,  Global Health Council;  Infectious Disease Society of America; International Society for Infectious Diseases;  American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Psychological Association; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; Population Association of America; International Society for Environmental Epidemiology; Society for Epidemiologic Research. American College of Epidemiology (elected to membership, 2003), International Epidemiologic Association; International Society for Travel Medicine, International Association for the Study of Pain, American Pain Society, American Association of Physician Assistants, National Rural Health Association.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL REVIEWING:

 

Referee, numerous tenure and promotion decisions, U.S., Canadian, European, New Zealand and Australian universities. 

 

Multiple proposal reviews for National Science Foundation, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Kellogg Fellowship Program), MacArthur Foundation (MacArthur Fellowships), US. Department of State.

 

Multiple manuscript reviews for The Professional Geographer, Health Services Research, American Journal of Public Health, Urban Geography, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Social Science and Medicine, Geographical Analysis, Journal of Gerontology, TESG, Growth and Change, Medical Care, Association of Pacific Geographer's Yearbook, The Southeastern Geographer, Annals of Epidemiology and other journals in public health, epidemiology, and clinical medicine.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS:

 

Journal Articles:

 

Mayer, J.D. 1977. "Local and Commuter Airlines in the United States."  Traffic Quarterly,. 31, pp. 333-349. 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1979. "Seattle's Paramedic Program:  Geographical Distribution, Response Times, and Mortality.” Social Science and Medicine, 13D, pp. 45-52. 

 

Mayer, J. D, "Emergency Medical Services:  Delays, Response Times, and Survival." Medical Care, 17, pp. 818-827.

 

Mayer, J. D.  1979. "Paramedic Response Time and Survival from Cardiac Arrest." Social Science and Medicine, 13D, pp.  267-272,

.

Mayer, J. D. 1980. "Response Time and its Significance in Medical Emergencies." The Geographical Review, 70, pp. 45-52,.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1980. "Urban Ecology and Location Theory: Dominance Territory." Geoforum, 11,  pp. 399-407,. 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1981. "Geographical Clues About Multiple Sclerosis."  Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 71, pp. 28-39.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1981. "A Method for the Geographical Evaluation of Emergency Medical Services."  American Journal of Public Health, 71, pp. 841-844.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1981. "Geographical Patterns of Cardiac Arrest: An Exploratory Model." Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 15D, pp. 329-334.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1982. "Medical Geography: Some Unsolved Problems."  The Professional Geographer, 34, pp. 261-269. 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1982. "Relations between Two Traditions of Medical Geography." Progress in Human Geography, 6, pp. 216-230.

 

Mayer, J. D.  1983. "The Role of Spatial Analysis and Geographic Data in the Detection of Disease Causation."  Social Science and Medicine,. 17, pp. 1213-1221. 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1983. "The Distance Behavior of Hospital Patients:  A Disaggregated Analysis."  Social Science and Medicine,  17, pp. 819-827.

 

Mayer, J. D.  1984."Medical Geography: An Emerging Discipline."  JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association),. 251, 2680-2683.  Selected by the editors of the Chinese edition for translation into Chinese and distribution in the Peoples' Republic of China. 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1986. "An International Perspective on the Health Care Crisis in the United States."  Social Science and Medicine, 23, pp. 1059-1065.  Invited paper presented at the British-American Medical Geography Symposium, of Nottingham, July 1985. 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1987, Kohlenberg, E. R., Sieferman, G. E., Roseblatt, R. A "Patterns of Rural Hospital Closure." Social Science and Medicine, 24, pp. 327-334. 

 

Lewis, N. D., Mayer, J. D. 1988. "Disease as Natural Hazard." Progress in Human Geography, 16, pp. 15-33. 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1989. "Doing Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences and Medicine,” Family Medicine, 21,  pp. 211-216.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1989. "Clinically Applied Medical Geography: Its Relevance for Travel Medicine."  The Professional Geographer,  41, pp. 421-428.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1990. "The Centrality of Medical Geography to Human Geography: The Traditions of Geographical and Medical Geographic Thought." Geogr. Tidsskr Norsk,. 44, pp. 175-187,

 

Mayer, J. D. 1991. "Medical Geography as a Public Health Discipline." Washington

Public Health, 9, pp.19-21.

 

Volinn, E., Mayer, J. D. 1992."Small Area Analysis of Surgery for Low Back Pain.", Spine, 17, pp. 575-581.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1992. "Challenges to Understanding Spatial Patterns of Disease: Philosophical Alternatives to Logical Positivism."  Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 35, pp. 579-588, 1992.

 

Mayer, J. D., Meade, M. S. 1994. "A Reformed Medical Geography Reconsidered." The Professional Geographer, 46, pp. 103-106

 

Mayer, J. D.  1994. "The Geography of Disease and Epistemology." Sistema Terra: Remote Sensing and the Earth, 3, pp. 6-7,

 

Roberts, C., Mayer, J. D., Henderson, W. R.  1996. "Asthma Deaths in Washington State, 1980-1989: Geographic and Demographic Distributions."Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. 76, pp. 20-26,.

 

Kimball, A.M, Mayer, J. D. 1996,"Are Emerging Infectious Diseases a Threat to the Northwest? Washington Public Health, 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1996. "The Political Ecology of Disease as a New Focus for Medical Geography." Progress in Human Geography, 20, pp. 441-456.

 

Dunbar, P. J., Mayer, J. D., Fordyce, M. A., Lishner, D. M., Hagopian, A., Spanton, K., Gart, L. G. 1998. “Availability of Anesthesia Providers in Rural Washington and Montana.” Anesthesiology, 88, pp. 800-808.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1998, "Surveillance and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases." Applied Geographical Studies, 2, pp. 261-278.

 

Mayer, J. D. 2000. "Geography, Ecology, and Emerging Infectious Diseases." Social Science and Medicine, 50, pp. 937-952.

 

Mayer, J.D. and others. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington: National Academy Press.

 

Mayer, J. D. 2005. “The Geographical Understanding of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.” Norsk Geografisk Tidsskdrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography, 59, 1-8.

 

Mayer, J. D. 2005. “HIV/AIDS as an Impediment to Development in sub-Saharan Africa.” Proceedings, NUFU Conference on Gender, Poverty, and Health. In press.

 

Mayer, J.D. and others. 2005. Research Priorities in the Earth Sciences and Public Health. Washington: National Academy Press. This book is in the final process of editing as of 5/3/05 by National Academy staff, and needs to go to press by mid-summer; there is a firm commitment for publication.

 

Book Chapters:

 

Mayer, J. D. 1980. "Migrant Studies and Medical Geography:  Conceptual Problems and Methodological Issues."  In: Melinda S. Meade, ed., Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Medical Geography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, pp. 136-154, 1980.

 

Deskins, D. R., Mayer, J. D. "Energy, Coal Transportation Patterns, and Environmental Regulation:  The Great Lakes Region."  In: Donald R. Deskins, Jr., ed., Impact of Urbanization and Industrialization on the Landscape.  Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 1980. 

 

Mayer, J. D.  1980. "Urban Health Care Planning in a Spatial Context: A Critical Analysis."  In: W. van Lierop and P. Nijkamp, eds., Locational Developments and Urban Planning.  Alphen aan deer Rijn, The Netherlands: Sijthoff and Noordhoff, pp. 323-344, 1980.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1985. "Health Services in Sparsely Settled Areas."InYehuda Gradus, ed.,Desert Development; Man and Technology in Sparselands.  Dordrecht:  D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985, pp. 118-131.

 

Mayer, J. D. 1986."Progress and Problems with Ecological Associative Analysis of Disease, Michael Pacione, ed., Medical Geography:  Progress and Prospect.  London: Croom Helm Ltd, 1986, pp. 64-83. 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1987. "The Spatial Epidemiology of Pandemic Influenza in Seattle, 1918-1919."   Invited chapter, Eliahu Stern and Shaul Krakover, eds., Geography Research Forum.  New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987, pp. 73-97. 

 

Mayer, J. D. 1992. "The Canadian and American Health Care Systems From a Values Perspective."  Ch. 17 in H. Foster and M. Hayes, eds, Medical Geography and the Environment. Victoria, University of Victoria, 1992.

 

Mayer, J. D.  1995. "Medical Geography and the Traveler: Pre-Travel Considerations." M.E. Jong and R. McMullen, eds., Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, W.B. Saunders, 1995.

 

Mayer, J. D., Mayer, H. M. 1998. "The United States: People, Health, Land, Transportation, and Energy." In D. Gordon Bennett, Tension Areas of the World.

Kendall-Hunt, 1998.

 

Mayer, J. D. 2001. "Medical Geography." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences..Elsevier. Pp. 9518-9523. (Invited article).

 

Mayer, J. D. 2003. "Emerging Diseases and the International Traveler." In E. Jong and R. McMullen, eds., Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, 3rd. edition. Pp. 26-33.

 

Mayer, J. D. 2004. “HIV/AIDS as an Impediment to Development in sub-Saharan Africa.” Proceedings of NUFU Conference on Gender, Poverty, and Health in Ghana, University of Accra, 2005.

 

Mayer, J. D. 2005. . “Changing Vector Ecologies : Political Geographic Perspectives..” The Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control. . Washington: Institute of Medicine, Forum on Microbial Threats. Washington: National Academy Press

 

Mayer, J.D. 2005. “Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and the Health of Mobile Populations.” In Yorghos Apostopoulos and Sevil Sonmez, , eds., Crossing Boundaries, Compounding Infections: Perspectives on Population, Migration, and Disease, Kluwer Academic Press. In press.

 

Mayer, J.D. 2005. “Back to Nima: Experiential Research in a Poor Ghanaian Neighborhood.” In C. Pope, ed. Globalization of HIV/AIDS. Routledge Press. In press.

Reviews:

 

Review of F. Barrett, "Residential Search Behavior," Journal of the American Institute of Planners.  Vol. 42, pp. 450-451, 1976.

 

Review of Andrew Learmonth, "Patterns of Disease and Hunger." Medical Care, Vol. 17, pp. 216-218, 1979. 

 

Review of RAND Corporation, "Fire Department Deployment Analysis."  Journal of Regional Science. Vol. 20, pp. 405-407,

1980. 

 

Review of Herbert and Johnston, "Geography and the Urban Environment: Progress in Research and Applications."  Annals of the Association of American Geographers.  Vol. 71, pp. 460-461,

1981.

 

Review of Buttimer and Seamon, "The Human Experience of Space and Place."  Journal of Regional Science. Vol. 22, pp. 114-115, 1982. 

 

Review of Cliff and others, "Spatial Diffusion:  An Historical Geography of Epidemics in an Island Community."  The Geographical Review, Vol. 73, pp. 363-364, 1983.

 

Review of N. D. McGlashan and J. R. Blunden, "Geographical Aspects of Health."  Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 

 

Review of M. Meade, W. Gesler, and J. Florin, "Medical Geography."  Environment and Behavior, Vol. 21, PP. 640-643, 1989.

 

Review of A. Learmonth, "Disease Ecology."  Progress in Human Geography.

 

Review of Anthony Gattrell, Geographies of Health, Social Science and Medicine,

 

Reports and Monographs:

 

Toward More Effective and Efficient Multimodal Transportation in the Great Lakes Region.

Ann Arbor: Great Lakes Basin Commission, 1977.

 

Patients, Diagnoses, and Travel to Hospitals: A Geographical Analysis..  Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Health Services Research, 1979.

 

“Climate Change and Human and Animal Health.”Report with Melinda Meade and others to AAAS, "Effects of CO2-Induced Climate Change," 1980.

 

Mayer, J. D., Kimball, A. M. "Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Northwest." Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, 1996.

 

"A Profile of Anesthesia Provision in Rural Areas." Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, 1996. With Peter Dunbar and others.

 

"Social Science, Human Ecology, and Emerging Diseases." Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, 1997.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS:

 

My work has been profiled in American Way (American Airlines in-flight magazine), December 21, 1984, and American Medical News (American Medical Association), December 21, 1984.  Also profiled on KUOW and National Public Radio, 1996; Columns; University Week, and other press and broadcast media.