Membership and official positions in any professional bodies:
Technical Advisory board CITI-SENSE EU FP7 project 2012-2016
Past committee member: RGS-IBG Geography of Health Research Group
Member of RGS-IBG Geographical Information Science (GISc RG) and Quantitative Methods Research groups (QMRG)
Co-editor Nordic Medical Geography Newsletter (2002-2004)
EU Evaluator – FP7, Environment and Health
Journal Reviewer: Multiple journals, including: Nature Communications, Lancet, Int’l J GIS; Social Science & Medicine; Health & Place; Environ. Health Persp; Health Statistics Quarterly, NZ Geographer, Local Environment.
Professional activities e.g. professional TV presentations:
China Radio International (BBC world service equivalent) ‘People in the know’ radio programme, Nov 2011 //english.cri.cn/7146/2011/11/07/1942s666129.htm
BBC Radio Kent – Rising birth rates – deprivation or immigration? Jan 2012
BBC Radio Somerset – Population change, migration & immigration, Summer 2011
BBC Radio Nottinghamshire – Population migration, 2010
Consultative work of a professional nature (include 'expert witness' requests and work at Public Enquiries):
2013-2019 Science Director, of the Australian CRC Spatial Intelligence Health Program www.crcsi.com.au
2011 EU FP7 grant evaluator, Environment and Health theme.
2008-2010 DEFRA (Dept of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) Spatial & temporal analysis of the effectiveness of the Randomised Badger Culling Trial, in collaboration with the Vet. Laboratory Agency.
NZ Post 2006 Developing a micro-scale least cost mail delivery algorithm for nationwide implementation to improve efficiency of mail delivery.
AgResearch NZ 2004-2005 Review of Topoclimate South and growOTAGO programs – Use of GIS to identify areas of thermal stress in dairy cows.
Membership of Editorial Boards and conference organisation etc:
International Medical Geography Symposium scientific committee (c. 250 delegates)
Bonn 2007
Michigan 2013
