Andrew Curtis

Andrew Curtis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University. He is also Director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and GIS for Public Health. This center currently houses several local, national and international projects involving GIS and the understanding of disease systems. Topics range from Anthrax distributions in Kazakhstan, to the cultural surface of Chagas Disease in Mexico. His personal research foci include real-time GIS analysis of emerging infections, the spatial analysis of historic epidemics, and GIS response to Bioterrorism. In addition, he has worked for four years on a project to reduce African American infant mortality in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the evaluator (and original co-grant writer) of the Baton Rouge Healthy Start project.

Publications

Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity
Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 317 pages.
Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a Geographic...
Explaining the Geography of Infant Health
Explaining the Geography of Infant Health
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 20 pages.
During a seminar presentation to the Geography and Anthropology Faculty at Louisiana State University, a series of summary statistics were presented concerning the racial...
An Introduction to GIS (All Things Data)
An Introduction to GIS (All Things Data)
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 31 pages.
One of the purposes of this book is to introduce community health groups to the potential of GIS, a technology that can help in understanding the spatial landscape of prenatal...
An Introduction to GIS (All Things Spatial)
An Introduction to GIS (All Things Spatial)
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 27 pages.
The last chapter provided an introduction to two of the key components in a GIS: getting the data in, and then manipulating them to answer questions. This chapter considers how...
The Geography of Health Risks
The Geography of Health Risks
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 67 pages.
This book has so far provided an introduction to GIS in terms of its use as part of a community health program. Subsequent chapters will describe a selection of more detailed GIS...
GIS and Spatial Analysis: Keeping It Simple
GIS and Spatial Analysis: Keeping It Simple
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 28 pages.
n the opening chapters, GIS was broken into four general components, one of which was the spatial analysis of data. This is probably the least utilized of all GIS functions...
Advanced Spatial Analysis
Advanced Spatial Analysis
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 29 pages.
The last chapter presented several ideas of how to perform relatively simple forms of spatial analysis. Many of these approaches, though insightful, have been superceded by more...
Spatial/Temporal Stability in Neighborhoods of Risk: The Mobility of Mothers
Spatial/Temporal Stability in Neighborhoods of Risk: The Mobility of Mothers
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 21 pages.
Four years have been spent analyzing infant health data for Baton Rouge. As with working with any dataset, one gets a feel for the data. One such feeling was that the population...
Patient Confidentiality
Patient Confidentiality
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 21 pages.
Different governmental agencies have long stored information in restricted-access databases. The advent of online data entry and analysis, and subsequent distribution of data to...
Creating the Baton Rouge Healthy Start GIS
Creating the Baton Rouge Healthy Start GIS
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 23 pages.
I recently gave a presentation to an Introduction to Gender and Minority Studies class at Louisiana State University. This was an interesting experience, as most of my talks tend...
Bioterrorism, Pregnancy, and Old White Men
Bioterrorism, Pregnancy, and Old White Men
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner. © 2006. 19 pages.
By the title you might think this chapter is a departure from the general theme of this book. I beg your indulgence as I plead my case, because pregnant women as a cohort have...
Using Hierarchical Nearest Neighbor Analysis and Animation to Investigate the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Raccoon Rabies in West Virginia
Using Hierarchical Nearest Neighbor Analysis and Animation to Investigate the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Raccoon Rabies in West Virginia
Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner, Cathleen Hanlon. © 2003. 17 pages.
One of the most powerful uses of GIS in the field of public health is as an exploratory data analysis tool. By combining the three post-input defining components of a GIS (data...