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Research Seminar – The science of healthy cities of tomorrow: Current challenges and future directions from a built environmental epidemiologist
26 October, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Topic:
The Science of Healthy Cities of Tomorrow: Current Challenges and
Future Directions from a Built Environmental Epidemiologist
Speaker:
Dr. Chinmoy Sarkar
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Architecture
The University of Hong Kong
Schedule:
Wednesday, 26 October 2016 (13:00 -14:00)
Room 820, Knowles Building
The University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
The seminar will discuss methodological challenges inherent in the current breed of built
environment–health studies; and highlight recent advances in state-of-the-art big data
spatial modelling, data linkage, anonymization, and large scale prospective cohorts. Such
advances, on the boundaries between city planning, public health, epidemiology and big
data geo-computation hold the prospect of generating the much needed evidence-base for
creating, designing, and managing the healthy cities of tomorrow. In big data era, I foresee
large scale prospective built environment–health studies enabled through multidisciplinary
global collaborations to provide sufficiently robust evidence for preventive environmental
interventions in the form of health-specific planning of neighbourhoods and cities as well
as create decision supports systems for facilitating healthy cities.
About the Speaker:
Dr Chinmoy Sarkar is an Assistant Professor of GIS, Urban Health and Environment at
The University of Hong Kong. His research interest lies in the interdisciplinary domains
of big data modelling in health and urban mobility, built environment epidemiology, smart
technologies including location-based services for health research, spatial modelling and
advanced statistics. Dr Sarkar is the concept lead and developer of the UK Biobank Urban
Morphometric Platform (UKBUMP) project, developing the largest ever built
environment database of 700 plus modelled individual-level health-specific metrics for 0.5
million participants of the flagship UK Biobank cohort and currently leading a series of
detailed BE-health epidemiological studies. His recent book – Sarkar, Webster and
Gallacher (April 2014) Healthy Cities: Public Health through Urban Planning.
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar talks about the multiple multi-level spatio-temporal health
determinants existing at the different hierarchies in a city system.
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