Niko Yiannakoulias: Research

Research Interests:

1. Medical geography

• Understanding and characterizing interactions between the environment and human health
• Understanding spatial-temporal structures in infectious disease
  
• Geographies of chronic disease
  
• Paediatric injury and the social and physical environment
  
  

2. Geographic health surveillance

• Developing geographic methods that can be used to understand and support decision making in health
  
• Cricical analysis of health surveillance methodology, policy and health care
  
• Spatial representation of health information
  
  

3. Geomatics of illness and crime

• Studying how different ways of defining disease and illness can affect how we observe and understand geographic information
  
• Developing frameworks for understanding the moral geographies of spatial analysis
  
  4. Agent-based models of human and environment interaction
  
• Developing agent-based models to observe the emergence of spatial patterns in cooperative and competitive social environments
  
• Studying how changes in social behaviour (such as immunization) interact with the evolution of disease virulence in pathogenic microorganisms
  
• Agent-based models for infectious disease control and planning
  

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