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Sarah E. Hinman, M.A. |
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Education:
BA Mary Washington College, Geography and History MA Ohio University Geography Thesis: Urbanization and Public Health: A Study of the Spatial Distribution of Infant Mortality in Baltimore, Maryland, 1880. Weblink: http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1029183545 PhD (in progress) Louisiana State University Geography
Research Interests: Medical geography, GIS, advanced spatial analysis, historical geography.
Other interests: Urban environments, human environmental interactions, land use change over time
Research experience:
Before coming to LSU, I was a research assistant at Ohio University funded by the interdisciplinary Baltimore Ecosystems Study, one of the many sites affiliated with the Long Term Ecosystems Research Network (www.lternet.edu). While working with this group my research focused on land use change over time in Baltimore and on patterns of infant mortality in the late 19th century. Since joining the WHOCC my research has shifted to Washington, D.C. and the analysis of typhoid fever patterns during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Regardless of the topic, all of this research has focused on incorporating the use of GIS and spatial statistics into the process in order to better understand past disease patterns through techniques that were not available at the time of data collection. In the future my interests in GIS and medical geography will be expanded to include more recent disease outbreaks and the investigation of disease patterns using historical datasets for other North American cities.
Publications:
Hinman, S.E., J.K. Blackburn, and A.C. Curtis. 2006. Spatial and temporal structure of typhoid outbreaks in Washington, D.C., 1906-1909: evaluating local clustering with the Gi* statistic. International Journal of Health Geographics. PAPER FORTHCOMING |
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E109 WHOCC Research Laboratory |
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E-mail: shinma1@lsu.edu |
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PhD Candidate—Geography / Researcher |
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Phone: 225-578-4080 |
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