About
The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Computing for Public Health (GeoHealth’25) focuses on all aspects of modeling, simulating, mining, and understanding the spatial processes and patterns of the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. This cross-disciplinary workshop is a forum to bring together researchers in the SIGSPATIAL community as well as researchers in epidemiology. Also, this workshop is of interest to everyone who works with infectious disease data and models (not necessarily COVID19). In addition to paper presentations, this workshop will feature invited speakers keynotes from experts across the SIGSPATIAL community and epidemiology.
Organization Committee
General Chair
| Joon-Seok Kim (Emory University) | Taylor Anderson (George Mason University) |
Program Chairs
| Andreas Züfle (Emory University) | Su Yeon Han (Texas State University) |
Program Committee
| Michael Desjardins (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) | Zipei Fan (The University of Tokyo) |
| Song Gao (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Alexander Hohl (The University of Utah)" |
| Hamdi Kavak (George Mason University) | Max Lau (Emory University) |
| Amira Roess (George Mason University) | Ignacio Segovia-Dominguez (University of Texas at Dallas) |
| Yiqun Xie (University of Maryland) | Di Yang (University of Wyoming) |
| Jia Yu (Washington State University) |
Web Chair
| Hossein Amiri (Emory University) |
Speakers
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Associate Professor Dr. Taylor Anderson, George Mason University, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science
Keynote: Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity in Health Behaviors and Disease Dynamics
Taylor Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science. She received her Ph.D. in Geography at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her research lies at the intersection of Geographic Information Science (GISc) and urban health. Specifically, Dr. Anderson investigates the role of novel data-driven modeling and simulation approaches to better explain disease prevalence, predict future trajectories of disease, and improve public health response to diseases in both ecological and human systems. These approaches have been applied to complex problems of invasive species, infectious respiratory diseases, and non-communicable diseases.
Schedule
| Timezone: CET | Title | Paper |
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| 8:00-8:05 AM | Opening Remarks (Session Chair: Joon-Seok) |
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| 8:05-8:20 AM | Generating and Understanding Large Datasets of Social Contact Patterns from Foot-Traffic Data Hossein Amiri, James Song, Li Xiong, Andreas Züfle |
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| 8:20-9:05 AM | Keynote Associate Professor Dr. Taylor Anderson |
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| 9:05-9:20 AM | High‑Spatiotemporal‑Resolution PM2.5 Mapping in California: 6‑Hourly Estimates with 3‑km HRRR‑Smoke Zhiqing Huang, Song Gao, Qunying Huang |
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| 9:20-9:40 AM | Equitable Access to Urgent Care: Examining Transportation Inequities and Social Vulnerabilities in Chicago through GIS Emily Hou |
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| 9:40-9:55 AM | Mapping HIV Vulnerability: The Role of PrEP Accessibility and Economic Inequality in Atlanta, Georgia Su Yeon Han, Jeon-Young Kang, Andreas Züfle, Joon-Seok Kim |
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| 9:55-10:00 AM | Closing Remarks |
Location
615 Washington Ave SE. Minneapolis, MN, United States
Call For Papers
The workshop seeks high-quality full (8-10 pages) and short (4 pages) papers that have not been published in other academic outlets and are not concurrently under peer review. Once accepted, at least one author is required to register for the workshop and the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference, as well as attend the workshop to present the accepted work which will then appear in the ACM Digital Library. As GeoHealth papers appear in the ACM SIGSPATIAL proceedings we follow the same submission process. Submission details can be found at https://sigspatial2025.sigspatial.org/camera-ready/. Following the main-conference, we also allow full papers to have a two-page appendix beyond the ten pages limit.
| Geospatial Analytics for Infectious Disease Surveillance | Environmental Exposure Mapping (e.g., air quality, water, toxins) |
| Modeling Health Impacts of Climate Change | GIS for Health Equity and Access |
| Spatial Decision Support Systems for Health Resource Allocation | Urban Health and Built Environment Analysis |
| Chronic Disease Mapping and Risk Factor Modeling | Human Mobility and Public Health Interventions |
| Integration of Remote Sensing and Health Data | Real-time Outbreak Detection and Monitoring |
| Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) in Health | Privacy-aware Health Data Integration |
| Social Determinants of Health and Spatial Inequality | Data Fusion from Wearables, EHRs, and Census Data |
| Health Communication via Spatial Dashboards and Visualizations | Spatial Epidemiology and Spatiotemporal Modeling |
Important Dates
Submission deadline
August 22, 2025
Author notification
September 26, 2025
Camera-ready Due
October 10, 2025
Workshop date
November 3, 2025
Student Travel Grant Applications:
To be announced