Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton & Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Sponsors

• “West Nile Virus: Eco-epidemiology of Disease Emergence in Urban Areas”
  Marilyn O. Ruiz, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Illinois

• “Using GIS to Eliminate Disparities in African American Infant Mortality”
  Andrew Curtis, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University

• “Informing Public Health Policy through Geographic Science: Examples from Emerging Infections and Disaster Management”
  Charles C. Branas and Joshua P. Metlay, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

• “Linking Health Encounter Data with Environmental Data –
  a Demonstration Project in Carroll County, Iowa”
  Gerard Rushton, Department of Geography
  University of Iowa

• “Protecting Public Health and Food Supplies: GIScience Research for Understanding Plant, Animal and Human Biohazard Interactions”
  Eric A. Bernard, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional and Community Planning
  Kansas State University

• “Arsenic in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer in Southeastern Michigan”
  Jerome Nriagu, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
  Geoffrey M. Jacquez, President, Biomedware, Inc.

• Marguerite Barratt, Division Director
  Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
  National Science Foundation

• Ron Birk, Director
  Earth Science Applications Division
  Office of Earth Science
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Greg Smith, Chief Scientist
  Scott Loomer, Science Advisor for Geospatial Science
  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

• Joe Garofalo
  Lead Intelligence Officer
  Geospatial Management Office
  Department of Homeland Security

• Barbara Ryan, Associate Director for Geography
  U.S. Geological Survey

• Arthur Getis, San Diego State University,
  “The Role of UCGIS as a Cooperating Agency for GIScience Education”

• Wendy Bigler, Arizona State University
  “Bringing Space to the Core: Developing Undergraduate Curriculum in Spatial Reasoning”

• Timothy M. Bray, University of Texas at Dallas
  "Introducing Space in a Non-Computational Context."

• David R. Rain, The George Washington University
  “Integrating GIS and Urban Geography in the Classroom (& Beyond)”

• Christopher Weiss, Columbia University
  “Explaining Changes in Obesity: Examining Spatial Dimensions”