Faculty:
Andrew Curtis
Co-Director, GIS Health & Hazards Lab
Jacqueline Curtis
Co-Director, GIS Health & Hazards Lab
Research Associate:
Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar
Research Associate
Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar is a Research Associate in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the School of Medicine in Case Western Reserve University. His research is focused on spatial computing with a particular emphasis on developing efficient and scalable software solutions to synthesize and contextualize fine-scale spatial data from a variety of sources such as Spatial Videos, Spatial Video Geonarratives, and geo-spatial social media platforms. Along with spatial computing, he is also interested in utilizing parallel computation for solving data challenges related to spatial big data and in developing novel methodologies for preserving spatial confidentiality. He is also the lab manager for GIS Health & Hazards Lab at Case Western Reserve University.
Graduate Students:
Sarah Frischmann
Sarah Frischmann is a Research Assistant and MPH student at CWRU. Her professional interests include using a combination of quantitative and qualitative measures to examine global health, community health and improvement, the social determinants of health, and social justice. Upon completion of the MPH program, she plans to enroll in a PhD program to study epidemiology and biostatistics and then go on to apply these skills in local and international urban settings. Outside of work, she and her husband are raising their son as a dual citizen of both the US and Kenya and spend much time outside, catching bugs and playing in the Cleveland Metroparks.