Dr. Wei Luo co-organized a session in UCGIS Symposium 2021

• Post by: Yingwei Yan
• June 7, 2021
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UCGIS Symposium 2021: Advancing GIScience-informed Policy Solutions

GIScience-Informed Evaluations of COVID-19 Policy Responses

• Description:  In the absence of a vaccine, non=pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) have been widely employed by government jurisdictions at various levels via guidelines or mandate to slow the spread of COVID-19. Many of these interventions have a geographic component meant to mitigate personal contact among individuals: physical/social distancing, limitations on large gatherings of people, stay-at-home directives, border closings and other travel restrictions, and closures of non-essential businesses, schools, and places of worship, and restaurants and bars. Upon the dissemination of a vaccine, it will be key to assess geographic variation in vaccination rates and efficacy towards stopping the spread of the disease. This panel will address the role of geospatial technologies for monitoring, modeling, and responding to the spread and severity of COVID-19 and for evaluating the effects of NPI and vaccination on mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic..
• Session Format: panel & discussion
• Time and Day: Monday June 7, 10:30 am – 12:15 pm Eastern (7:30 – 9:15 am Pacific)
• Organizer: Jeremy Mennis (Temple University) and Wei Luo (National University of Singapore)
• Panelists:
  • Paul Delamater, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Elisabeth Root, the Ohio State University
  • Shengjie Lai, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Ruiyun Li, University of Oslo, Norway
• Recording: Link to the session on the UCGIS YouTube channel