Amy J. Blatt

A medical geographer and public health advocate, Dr. Amy Blatt stands at the intersection of health, science, and place. She holds a BS in biological sciences from Stanford University and PhD in geography from the University of Cincinnati.

Dr. Blatt has published extensively in the fields of geography, science, and public health. She has served as guest editor of a number of academic journals, including the International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, and the Journal of Map and Geography Libraries. Her work has been favorably reviewed by her peers, and has served as editor and author of two medical geography texts - "Health, Science, and Place: A New Model" (Springer, 2014) and "Perspectives in Medical Geography" (Routledge, 2012).

More information about her publications on medical geography can be found at:

http://www.routledge.com/authors/i16414-amy-blatt

and

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319120027

Her interview with the "International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research" can be seen here: http://www.igi-global.com/newsroom/archive/developments-disease-surveillance-prevention-outbreak/1537/

In a recent podcast on "Empowered Patient Radio," Dr. Blatt discusses the need to include where a person lives, works, and plays to understand their health, how geospatial medicine experts look at mass gatherings and the Rio 2016 Olympics, and that volunteered geographic health information is a big part of the citizen science movement. Learn more at: http://empoweredpatientradio.com/place-is-a-vital-sign-with-amy-blatt