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Mei-Po Kwan (Traditional Chinese: 關美寶, born in 1962) is a an American geographer and academic. She is a notable figure in geography that has made ground-breaking contributions to research on environmental health, human mobility, transport and health issues in cities, and geographic information science (GIScience).


Career

Kwan is a Choh-Ming Li Professor[1] of Geography and Resource Management and Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. As a professor, she teaches Advanced GIS, Business Applications of Geographic Information Science, GIS for Social Science and Business Research, and, Design and Implementation for Geographic Information Systems. Her research addresses health, transport, environmental, and social issues in urban areas through the application of innovative geographic information system (GIS) methods.

Kwan discovered the uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP)[2] and the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP)[3]. She is a leading researcher in deploying real-time GPS tracking and mobile sensing to collect individual-level data in environmental health research. Her recent projects examine the health impacts of individual environmental exposure (e.g., noise, air pollution, green space), the protection of geoprivacy via the development of a Geospatial Virtual Data Enclave (GVDE), and the space-time dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic[4][5][6].

She has received over US$61.6 million grant support from sources including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation[7], the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She has published over 380 books, journal articles[8][9] and book chapters. She has delivered over 350 keynote addresses[10], invited lectures[11] and other invited presentations in more than 20 countries.

Kwan had served as an editor of Annals of the American Association of Geographers for 12 years[12]. She also founded the International Geospatial Health Research Network (IGHRN) in 2013 in an international forum jointly organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Hong Kong, Utrecht University, the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS), and several other organizations in the U.S. and Europe.

References

  1. ^ "Department of Geography and Resource Management (GRM), The Chinese University of Hong Kong". Department of Geography and Resource Management (GRM), The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
  2. ^ Kwan, M.-P. (2012a) The uncertain geographic context problem. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(5): 958-968.
  3. ^ Kwan, M.-P. (2018) The neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP): An elusive confounder of the neighborhood effect. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15: 1841.
  4. ^ Yates, Diana; Yates, Diana. "Culture shapes willingness to share personal data to reduce COVID-19 spread". news.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
  5. ^ Kim, Junghwan; Kwan, Mei-Po (January 2021). "An Examination of People's Privacy Concerns, Perceptions of Social Benefits, and Acceptance of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures That Harness Location Information: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and South Korea". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 10 (1): 25. doi:10.3390/ijgi10010025. ISSN 2220-9964.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  6. ^ "American Geographical Society: Tracking Movement through Space during COVID-19".
  7. ^ "NSF Award Search: "Mei-Po Kwan"".
  8. ^ "Mei-Po Kwan Google Scholar Profile".
  9. ^ "Taylor & Francis Online journals search: Author: Kwan, Mei-Po".
  10. ^ "List of Keynotes and Presentations".
  11. ^ "UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies: What about time in transportation and health research?".
  12. ^ "Annals of the American Association of Geographers Editorial Board".
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