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F2023 - GEOG 686 - Applied Statistics and Geospatial Analysis | ||||||||||
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W2024 - GEOG 454 - Economic Geography | ||||||||||
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W2024 - GEOG 639 - Adv Spatial Analysis & Modeling | ||||||||||
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Prior to joining the Department of Geography I worked in the financial and retail sectors. I held contracts with the private industry and research institutes, and participated in several European Union funded projects. I held teaching appointments ith Italy and Germany.
My research focuses on health geography. My work on environmental and socioeconomic determinants of health includes land use regression (LUR) models to estimate air pollution at fine spatial scale, models of ocean pollution and maritime activities, and analyses of the association of health, socio-economic status, and the built environment. I collaborate on a variety of health research projects, contributing to address questions of location, accessibility, and the spatial determinants of health. My research in GIS and spatial statistical analysis helps to increase the reliability of spatial models.
For any prospective student, I am looking for people interested in human, health, and environmental applications, with a solid background in quantitative methods and a keen interest in critical and novel applications.
Interested individuals with appropriate background and research interests are welcome to send me an email with reference "Spatial Analysis".
Geospatial Science Urban & Political Economy
Member of the O' Brien Institute of Public Health (OIPH)
Co-Founder and Co-Leader of the OIPH GOH (Geography of Health and GIS Analysis) Research Group
GOH in the news: GIS day 2017
Spatial analysis
Representation of space
Critical spatial science
Spatial thinking in public health
Geography of health
Air pollution modelling
Environmental pollution and public health
Active transportation, children, healthy built environmnent
Spatial and spatiotemporal diffusion and disease transmission
Bertazzon S., I. Couloigner, M. Mirzaei, 2021. Spatial Regression Modelling of Particulate Pollution in Calgary, Canada. Geojournal. 10.1007/s10708-020-10345-7
M. Mirzaei, S. Bertazzon, I. Couloigner, B. Farjad, R. Ngom, 2020. Estimation of Local Daily PM2.5 Concentration during Wildfire Episodes: Integrating MODIS AOD with Multivariate Linear Mixed Effect (LME) Models. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 13:173-185
Liu X., S. Bertazzon, P. J. Villeneuve, M. Johnson, D. Stieb, S. Coward, D. Tanyingoh, J. W. Windsor, F. Underwood, M. D. Hill, D. Rabi, W. A. Ghali, S. B. Wilton, M. T. James, M. Graham, M. S. McMurtry, G. G. Kaplan (2020). Temporal and spatial effect of air pollution on hospital admissions for myocardial infarction: a case-crossover study. CMAJ Open, 8(4).
Bertazzon S., C. Calder-Bellamy, R. Shahid, I. Couloigner, R. Wong (2020). A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of the Association of Asthma and Traffic Related Air Pollution in the Metropolitan Area of Calgary, Canada. Atmosphere, 11 (10), 1066
S. Bertazzon, I. Couloigner, F. Underwood, 2019. Spatial land use regression of nitrogen dioxide over a 5-year interval in Calgary, Canada. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(7):1335-1354
D.Marshall, X. Liu, R. Shahid, S. Bertazzon, J. Seidel, A. Patel, M. Nasr, C. Barber, T. McDonald, R. Sharma, T. Briggs, P. Faris, N. Waters, 2019. Geographic Variation in Osteoarthritis Prevalence in Alberta: A spatial analysis approach. Applied Geography.103:112-121
S. Bertazzon & R. Shahid, 2017. Schools, air pollution, and active transportation. An exploratory spatial analysis of Calgary, Canada. The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 14(8): 834
K. Eccles, S. Checkley, D. Sjogren, H. Barkema, S. Bertazzon, 2017. Lessons learned from the 2013 Calgary flood: assessing risk of drinking water well contamination. Applied Geography. 80:78-85