GIS and Health

• "Mapping Public Health and Disease" History of Cartography , Vol. 7. University of Chicago Press.

  In Press 2025.

• "John Snow’s Broad Street Map: The Legend." History of Cartography , Vol. 7. University of Chicago Press.

  In Press 2025.

• Compare Burnout in Covid-19 vs Past Pandemics. Commentary on: Cutler D.M. Health System Change in the Wake of COVID-19.JAMA Health Forum.  4(10): e234355.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2811084

  Oct 2023

• Covid-19: “Unprecedented”? Not really.Clinical Research and Infectious Diseases.

  June 2023

• Back to the future: Covid-19 and the recurring debate over social determinants of disease, and healthScience and the Humanities, Open https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2022.100298

  June 2022

• Disease Mapping and Innovation: A History from Wood Block Prints to Web 3.0 Patterns 3:6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100507

  10 June 2022

• Welcome to the Revolution: Covid-19 and the democratization of spatial-temporal data. Patterns 2021; 2 (7): 1-10. Doi. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100272.

  July 2021

• Viral geographies: Megaregions as extra‐urban disease catchment.The Canadian Geographer 2021 (June), 1–14 Doi: 10.1111/cag.12693.

  June 2021

• (With Ken Denike). Why populations are not planets: the limits of modeling by analogy.J. Geography and Regional Planning 14 (3): 105-112.

  Aug. 2021

• Covid-19: Déjà vu, all over again.Medical Research Archives 9 (4). https://www.researchgate.net/350953532_Covid-19_Deja_vu_all_over_again

  March, 2021

• From cholera to Covid-19 the issues have not changed. COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Studies & Opinions, 2019; 01(04): 81–82. https://researchinfotext.com/article-details/From-Cholera-to-COVID-19-the-Issues-haven-rsquo-t-changed

  Sept. 2020

• Reviewing the Quality of “Big Data” in automatic data systemsAn Example. Medical Research Archives 8 (9). https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v8i9.2232

  Sept. 2020

• "Populations, megapopulations, and the areal unit problem."Health and Place 54: 79-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.09.010

  Sept. 2018

• "Ethical Ecologies: The landscapes we create."Landscape. http://iale.uk/ethical-ecologies-landscapes-we-create

  Spring 2018

• Review of GIS Tutorial 1 for ArcPro GIS. Cartographic Perspectives 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.14714/CP89.1457

  2018

• "A Thank-you, Long Overdue."Cartograph Perspectives 85, 5-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.14714/CP87.1407

  2017

• "Commuter Pathways and Epidemic Disease: A Brief Report."Annals of Infectious Disease and Epidemiology 2:4. http://remedypublications.com/infectious-disease-and-epidemiology/articles/pdfs_folder/aide-v2-id1023.pdf.

  Nov. 2017

• "Review of Ralph Frerich's, Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-up in Post-Earthquake Haiti."Cartographic Perspectives. http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1422/1569

  Nov. 2017

• "Landscapes of Disease, Ecologies of Transmission"Landscape Ecology. http://iale.uk/landscapes-disease-ecologies-transmission

  Autumn, 2017

• “Fighting disease, like fighting fires: The lessons Ebola Teaches.” Canadian Geographer 60(3): 288–299.

  Spring 2016

• “Ebola in West Africa: lessons we may have learned.” International Journal of Epidemiology. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv324

  Jan. 2016

• “Fighting disease, like fighting fires: The lessons Ebola Teaches.”Canadian Geographer 2016; 60(3): 288–299.

  March 2016

• “Ebola, Quarantine, and the Scale of Ethics.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.115

  Oct. 2015

• Mapping disaster: Old lessons Ebola Made New Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , 9:1, 66-73

  March 2015

• Mapping medical disasters: Ebola makes old lessons, new. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , 9:1, 51-63

  March 2015

• Tom Koch on Ebola and Disease Maps Remedia Audio Interview (Harvard) , http://remedianetwork.net/2015/02/20/the-tablet-tom-koch-on-ebola-and-disease-maps/

  20 Feb 2015

• Prince Kropotkin: Public Health's Patron Saint International Journal of Epidemiology , 43 (6), 1681-5

  Oct 2014

• Hubris: The Recurring Pandemic Disaster Medicine and And Public Health Preparedness , DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2014.107

  22 Oct 2014

• Ebola: Epidemics, Pandemics and the Mapping of their Containment Remedia: The History of Medicine in Dialog with the Present , http://remedianetwork.net/2014/09/22/ebola-epidemics-pandemics-and-the-mapping-of-their-containment/

  22 Sept 2014

• Ebola and the 'New' Epidemic The Chicago Blog, University of Chicago Press , http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2014/08/13/tom-koch-on-ebola-and-the-new-epidemic.html

  13 Aug 2014

• Atlases of Disease: A review of “Atlas of Epidemic Britain: A Twentieth Century Picture Society and Space: Environment and Planning D (Open Site) , http://societyandspace.com/reviews/reviews-archive/smallman-raynor/ http://progressivegeographies.com/2014/07/26/atlases-of-disease/

  July 2014

• Nobody loves a critic: Edmund A. Parks and John Snow’s Cholera International Journal of Epidemiology , 42: 1553–1559

  Dec 2013

• The Researcher as Amateur: John Lea, Cholera, and the Computer Age. International Journal of Epidemiology , 42 (1): 52–58

  2013

• The Researcher as Amateur: John Lea, Cholera, and … the Computer Age. International Journal of Epidemiology , 3;42, 52–58.

  2013

• Plotting To Solve A Mystery: Maps and London’s Health. Geographical Journal , (UK).

  April 26 2012

• Knowing Its Place: Mapping as Medical Investigation. The Lancet 379, 887-88.

  10 March 2012

• Review: Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. Cartographica 46:2, 142-143.

  Spring 2011

• Visualizing Disease: Understanding Epidemics Through Maps. ArcUser , 64-67. http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0311/files/diseasemap.pdf

  Spring 2011

• When Cancer Became Public. The NAACCR Narrative , 11-13. http://www.naaccr.org/aboutnaaccr/newsletter.aspx

  Winter 2011

• Rethinking John Snow: The Interplay of Bayesian and Frequent Approaches. Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings (With Ken Denike).

  23 July, 2010

• Essential, Illustrative, or... Just Propaganda? Rethinking John Snow’s Broad Street Map Cartographica (volume 45, issue 1), 19–31.

  2010

• Disease Mapping. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Vol. 3, pp. 234-241. Oxford: Elsevier.

  2009

• Crediting His Critics' Concerns: Remaking John Snow's map of Broad Street cholera, 1854 (With Ken Denike). Social Science & Medicine 69:8, 1246-1251.

  Aug. 2009

• The History of Disease Mapping. Encyclopedia of Human Geography . R. Kitchen and N. Thrift, Editors. Oxford, UK: Elselvier.

  July 2009

• Social Epidemiology as Medical Geography: Back to the Future. Koch, T. 2009 GeoJournal 74:2, 99-106.

  April 2009

• Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press. Paperback,

  2005

• Wreck of the William Brown. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre; U.S. Edition: McGraw Hill . Includes 5 maps in a recreation and construction of the events leading to the court case: US versus Holmes.

  Aug. 2003

• Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation. Westport and London: Praeger Books . 2001 Includes 14 maps in its consideration of US policies of graft organ distribution.

  Dec. 2001

• Six Islands on Two Wheels: A Cycling Guide to Hawaii. Honolulu: Bess Press , Includes 18 maps in a cycling guide that considered the "scale of the bicycle" in transportation.

  June, 1990.

GIS/Health Papers

• Social Epidemiology as Medical Geography: Back to the Future. GeoJournal In Press .

  Fall 2009

• Maps of Nature/The Nature of Maps: Review, D. Wood and J. Fels. The Nature of Maps. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Cartographic Perspectives 59, 48-50 .

  Winter 2008

• Spaced Out in the City: The Wrinkled World of Transit for Those With Limited Mobility. Disability Studies Quarterly 28:2, gt. http://www.dsq-sds.org/DPubS?service=Repository&version=1.0&verb=Disseminate&view=body&content-type=html_1&handle=osul.dsq/1210686217#

  2008

• History of Demographic Data Collection and Analysis. Byrne, J. Editor. Encyclopedia of Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 141-151.

  2008

• Biographic Entries: William Farr, John Snow, Rudolph Virchow. Byrne, J., Editor, Encyclopedia of Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

  2008

• Finding or Making a Place in the World? Review: Ackerman and Karrow, Eds. Maps: Finding our place in the World. University of Chicago Press. Cartographic Perspectives 60, 72-75.

  2008

• Medical Mapping: There Be Monsters …There. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift, Editors. Oxford, UK: Elselvier.

  In Press, 2008

• Spaced Out in the City: The wrinkled world of transit for those with limited mobility. Disability Studies Quarterly 28:2.

  June 2008

• Maps of Nature/The Nature of Maps: Review, D. Wood and J. Fels. The Nature of Maps. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Cartographic Perspectives 49,48-51.

  Winter 2008

• The difference a verb can make. Review: C. Brewer, Designing Better Maps. ESRI Press (2005) and Krygier, J and D. Wood. Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS. Guilford Press (2005). Cartographic Perspectives 57, 58-60.

  2007

• Aaron's Solution, Instructor's Problem: Teaching Surface Analysis Using GIS (with Ken Denike). Journal of Geography 106:2, 69-77.

  August 2007

• Certainty, Uncertainty, and the Spatiality of Disease A West Nile Virus example (With Ken Denike). Stochastic Environment Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA) 231:5, 523-531.

  June 2007

• Rethinking John Snow's South London Study: A Bayesian evaluation and recalculation (with Ken Denike). Social Science & Medicine 63(1), 271-83.

  July 2006

• The Finding or Making a Place in the World? Review: Ackerman and Karrow, Eds. Maps: Finding our place in the World . University of Chicago Press . Cartographic Perspectives.

  In Press 2008

• History of Demographic Data Collection and Analysis. Byrne, J. Editor. Encyclopedia of Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

  In Press 2008

• Biographic Entries: William Farr, John Snow, Rudolph Virchow. Byrne, J., Editor, Encyclopedia of Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

  In Press 2008

• Medical Mapping: There Be Monsters …There. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography . R. Kitchen and N. Thrift,Editors. Oxford, UK: Elselvier.

  In Press, 2008

• Spaced Out in the City: The wrinkled world of transit for those with limited mobility. Disability Studies Quarterly 28:2.

  June 2008

• Maps of Nature/The Nature of Maps: Review, D. Wood and J. Fels. The Nature of Maps. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Cartographic Perspectives 49,48-51.

  Winter 2008

• The Difference a Verb Can Make. Review: C. Brewer, Designing Better Maps. ESRI Press (2005) and Krygier, J and D. Wood. Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS. Guilford Press (2005). Cartographic Perspectives 57, 58-60.

  2007

• Aaron's Solution, Instructor's Problem: Teaching Surface Analysis Using GIS (With Ken Denike). Journal of Geography106:2, 69-77.

  August 2007

• Certainty, Uncertainty, and the Spatiality of Disease a West Nile Virus Example. Stochastic Environment Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA) (With Ken Denike).

  June 2007

• Rethinking John Snow's South London Study: A Bayesian evaluation and recalculation Social Science & Medicine 63(1), 271-83 (With Ken Denike).

  July 2006

• “False Truths”: Ethics and Mapping as a Profession. Cartographic Perspectives 54, 4-15.

  July 2006

• Response to Mark Monmonier. Cartographica 40:3.

  Winter, 2005

• Mapping the Miasma: Air, Health, and Place in Early Medical Mapping. Cartographic Perspectives 52 , 4-27.

  Fall 2005

• Review: World Atlas of Epidemic Diseases. Cartographic Perspectives 52 , 82-84.

  Winter 2005

• Review: Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine. P. Vinten-Johansen, H. Broody, N. Paneth, and S. Rachman, 2003 Social Science and Medicine 60:5, 1163.

  March, 2005

• The Map as Intent: Variations on the theme of John Snow Cartographica 39:4 , 1-13.

  Dec. 2004

• Mapping John Snow. A review of Vinten-Johansen et al “Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine.” Cartographic Perspectives 48 , 62-64.

  Spring, 2004

• What Do We Call it Now? Commentary on, “Cartography is Dead (Thank God!).” Cartographic Perspectives 48, 4-5.

  Spring 2004

• Medical Mapping: The Revolution in teaching and using—maps for the analysis of medical issues (With Ken Denike). Journal of Geography 103:2, 76-85. Winner: NCGE Award, best article.

  March 2004

• Review: Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine. A Life of John Snow. Health and Place 9:2, 115-116.

  Jan. 2004

• Geography, Justice, and Inequality: The New York City school funding controversy (With Ken Denike). Journal of Geography 102:5, 193-201.

  Oct. 2003

• Geography, the Problem of Scale, and Processes of Allocation: The U.S. National Organ Transplant Act of 1986, amended 1990 (With Ken Denike). IN: Law and Geography . London: Oxford University Press, 109-137.

  2003

• Organ Transplants Without Borders. National Post , A 13.

  April, 2001

• GIS Approaches to the Problem of Disease Clusters: A Brief Commentary (With Ken Denike) . Social Science and Medicine 51 , 151-54.

  2001

• Equality Versus Efficiency: The Equality of solid organ distribution in the USA (With Ken Denike). Ethics, Place, and Environment 4:1, 45-56.

  2001

• The Art of the Science: National Transplant System: What’s Fair and What’s Possible? ORMS Today 28:5, 28-32.

  Oct. 2001

• Mapping the ORMS World. ORMS Today 26:4, 26-30. http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/orms-8-99/koch.html

  Aug, 1999

• The Organ Transplant Dilemma: What is fair? What is equitable? OR/MS Today , 26:1, 22-28.

  Feb. 1999