Mei-Po Kwan

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Mei-Po Kwan
Born 1962
Alma mater University of California, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Occupation Geographer

Mei-Po Kwan (Chinese: 關美寶, born 1962) is an American geographer and academic. Her contributions to the field include environmental health, human mobility, transport and health issues in cities, and geographic information science (GIScience).[1]

Education

Kwan earned a Ph.D. in geography in 1994 (UCSB), an M.A. in urban planning in 1989 (UCLA), and a B.SoSci. in geography in 1985 (CUHK).[1][2]

Career

Kwan is a Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management and Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[3] As a professor, she teaches Advanced GIS, Business Applications of Geographic Information Science, GIS for Social Science and Business Research, and, Design and Implementation for Geographic Information Systems. Her research focuses on GIScience, specifically as it applies to human mobility, health, transport, environmental, and social issues in urban areas.[1][2] She has made major contributions to time geography.

Kwan coined the terms uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP)[4] and the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP).[5] She is a leading researcher in deploying real-time GPS tracking and mobile sensing to collect individual-level data in environmental health research. Her recent projects examine the health impacts of individual environmental exposure (e.g., noise, air pollution, green space), the protection of geoprivacy via the development of a Geospatial Virtual Data Enclave (GVDE), and the space-time dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7][8]

She has received over US$61.6 million grant support from sources including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation,[9] the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She has published over 380 books, journal articles[10][11] and book chapters. She has delivered over 350 keynote addresses,[12] invited lectures[13] and other invited presentations in more than 20 countries.

Kwan had served as an editor of Annals of the American Association of Geographers for 12 years.[14] She also founded the International Geospatial Health Research Network (IGHRN) in 2013 in an international forum jointly organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Hong Kong, Utrecht University, the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS), and several other organizations in the U.S. and Europe.[citation needed]

Awards and recognition

  • James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied Geography, AAG Applied Geography Specialty Group, 2022[1][2]
  • Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Web of Science, Clarivate, 2021[1][2]
  • Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography, American Association of Geographers, 2021[1][2]
  • Fellow, American Association of Geographers, 2020[1][2]
  • Highly Cited Researcher 2019, Web of Science, Clarivate, 2019[1][2]
  • Fellow, U.K. Academy of Social Sciences, 2018[1][2]
  • Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography, American Association of Geographers, 2018[1][2]
  • Alan Hay Award in Transport Geography, Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), 2017[1][2]
  • Distinguished Scholar Award, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS), 2017[1][2]
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 2016[1][2]
  • E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, American Association of Geographers, 2016[1][2]
  • Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, 2016[1]<[2]
  • Distinguished Scholarship Honors, Association of American Geographers, 2011[1][2]
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009[1][2]
  • University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award, 2005[1][2]
  • Edward L. Ullman Award, AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group, 2005[1][2]
  • Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (UK) (since 2004)[1][2]

See also

References

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