This is the

1. Open Source, Geo & Health Workshop
Tuesday 9th August 2011, 9:30am - 4:30pm
The GECO (#jiscgeco or #jiscgeo) project welcome you to a day of exploring Open
Source, Geo & Health issues and ideas.
Programme
09.30 Registration & Coffee
10.00 Welcome - James Reid, JISC GECO Project
10.10 “Participatory Health Surveys” – Sergiusz Pawlowicz et al, Centre for Geospatial
Science, University of Nottingham
10.35 “Primary care perspectives on open source GIS in the UK”- Edgar
Samarasundera et al, Imperial College, UK
11.00 Coffee
11.25 “Green Space and Mental Well-being: Does Green Space Make a Difference?’
by Catharine Ward Thompson, OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh and
Heriot-Watt Universities.
11.50 Workshop A: Why are GIS/spatial tools under utilised in the NHS? led by Kate
Jones, JISC G3 Project
12.45 Lunch
2.00 Workshop B: Body storming the subject with GPS by Chris Speed, Edinburgh
College of Art
3.00 Workshop C: Mini presentations, discussion of ideas and possible project
building. Mini presentations will include:
• Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University on infection tracking and future
opportunities in this area.
• Seraphim Alvanides, Northumbria University on his research into the relationship
between built, natural and social environments, activity and health.
4.00 Conclusions on the day and thoughts on future follow up.
4.30 Close.
The day will be live-blogged, photographed and tweeted with links to these and other resources
added to the JISC GECO website (http://geco.blogs.edina.ac.uk/). We also hope to video the
presentations.
If you would like us to link to your write up of today’s event, or would be interested in creating a
guest post for the GECO blog then please email Nicola Osborne (Nicola.osborne@ed.ac.uk).
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consider joining our mailing list: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/JISC-GECO/ or following us on
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The tag/hashtag for today is #gecohealth - please use for tweets, blogs, images etc.