Health Geography and System Thinking team members are engaged in the
International Geographical Union Commission on Health and the Environment and the Network on Health Geography Research.
International Geographical Union Commission on Health and the Environment and the Network on Health Geography Research.
The International Geographical Union's Commission on Health and Environment (IGU CHE) comprises scientists and professionals in the fields of Health Geography, Environment and Public Health (HEP).
IGU CHE Mandate & Strategic Foci:
Members of the IGU Commission on Health and the Environment carry out research on health and health care in the natural and built environment recognizing the importance of gender and diversity in a globalized world. The strategic foci for the mandate period 2016 to 2020 continue to be:
1) The analysis of quality of life with an emphasis on health, health care,
and the environment at various geographic scales;
2) The links among global change, global health and the environment;
3) Urban health and the role of migration and immigration.
These foci reflect both the continuation of the previous work carried out by IGU CHE and the strategic aim to further strengthen with our contributions important international initiatives like Future Earth, One Health, Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment as well as the necessary scientific contributions to the environmental health components of SDG agenda. The CHE members continue to represent IGU in the aforementioned and many other international initiatives over the mandate period 2016-2020. They contribute as health geographers to the international efforts to improve global health and global health governance. IGU CHE provides a platform for its members in collaboration with the members of the various national and regional (health geography) specialty groups to discuss, define and further develop concepts, conceptual frameworks and curricula related to health geography and the emerging fields of global health and planetary health.
1) The analysis of quality of life with an emphasis on health, health care,
and the environment at various geographic scales;
2) The links among global change, global health and the environment;
3) Urban health and the role of migration and immigration.
These foci reflect both the continuation of the previous work carried out by IGU CHE and the strategic aim to further strengthen with our contributions important international initiatives like Future Earth, One Health, Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment as well as the necessary scientific contributions to the environmental health components of SDG agenda. The CHE members continue to represent IGU in the aforementioned and many other international initiatives over the mandate period 2016-2020. They contribute as health geographers to the international efforts to improve global health and global health governance. IGU CHE provides a platform for its members in collaboration with the members of the various national and regional (health geography) specialty groups to discuss, define and further develop concepts, conceptual frameworks and curricula related to health geography and the emerging fields of global health and planetary health.
Health Geography Researcher's Network
The International Geographical Union Commission on Health and the Environment (IGU CHE) has initialized a Researcher Network to further stimulate and support international networking and exchange on health geography, global health, public health and environment and health issues.
The researcher network aims to encourage participation by researchers of all age groups with special focus on enlarging participation of young researchers to ensure the sustainability of the commission for the future.
We closely interact and collaborate with the steering committee of IGU CHE while at the same time also focusing on the specific issues and interests of health geography researchers. We aim to utilize and communicate the knowledge of health geography, health and the environment as well as global health and public health. Thus the group develops a multinational and multidisciplinary perspective and creates a network that supports contacts and shares research and work experiences in our fields of study.
The researcher network is supported and organized through a steering group (network representatives) including representatives from different geographical areas. The regional representatives will be in charge to actively reach out to their regional scientific community and share their experience and insights. In addition, working groups with representatives for specific areas of concern are created to enhance exchange of knowledge with a more topic driven focus.
The network representatives will regularly communicate electronically to ensure and enhance interaction between the regional members on joint research activities, interests, and initiatives.
The researcher network aims to encourage participation by researchers of all age groups with special focus on enlarging participation of young researchers to ensure the sustainability of the commission for the future.
We closely interact and collaborate with the steering committee of IGU CHE while at the same time also focusing on the specific issues and interests of health geography researchers. We aim to utilize and communicate the knowledge of health geography, health and the environment as well as global health and public health. Thus the group develops a multinational and multidisciplinary perspective and creates a network that supports contacts and shares research and work experiences in our fields of study.
The researcher network is supported and organized through a steering group (network representatives) including representatives from different geographical areas. The regional representatives will be in charge to actively reach out to their regional scientific community and share their experience and insights. In addition, working groups with representatives for specific areas of concern are created to enhance exchange of knowledge with a more topic driven focus.
The network representatives will regularly communicate electronically to ensure and enhance interaction between the regional members on joint research activities, interests, and initiatives.
