Dr. Niko Yiannakoulias came to McMaster University in 2007 after completing his PhD at the University of Alberta in 2006. His primary fields of interest include environmental health and geographic information science (GISci). He has done applied work in the areas of environmental health, transportation safety, mental health and crime. He has developed methods for analyzing spatial patterns of disease, solving political districting problems, geographic crime profiling and public health surveillance. Dr. Yiannakoulias' research has been funded primarily by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRHC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
Research Interests:
1. Environmental health
- Understanding and characterizing interactions between the environment and human health
- Understanding spatial-temporal structures in infectious disease
- Geographic health surveillance
- Paediatric injury and the social and physical environment
2. Environmental risk analysis and risk communication
- Associations between environmental decision making and risk perception
- Risk communication systems for rare events
- Risk mitigation strategies
- Research game approaches to environmental policy analysis
3. 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
- Environmental games and game theory
Environmental health; risk communication; value of information; uncertainty; serious games and environmental applications of game theory; geocomputation
- Geog 3MB3 (Course Outline): Statistical Analysis, (Term One) 2018-19
- Geog 4ET3 (Course Outline): Environmental Policy, Ethics and Risk, (Term Two), 2018-19
- Geog 4HH3 (Course Outline): Environment and Health, (Term One) 2018-19
- Geog 6ET3: Enviro Policy, Ethics & Risks, (Term Two), 2018-19
- Earth Sc/Geog 6HH3: Environment and Health, (Term One), 2018-19
- Geog 714: Applied Data Analysis for Geographers and Earth Scientists, 2018-19
- McMaster Daily News Article, January 2013
- Hamilton Spectator, March 2017
