Headlines

December 13, 2012
Vaccine Refused, our new project to facilitate data collection from point of refusal, was released in the iTunes App Store for use by U.S. medical professionals.

November 9, 2012
Dr. Philip Polgreen and graduate student Jason Fries were featured on Iowa Public Radio discussing our research on hand hygiene in hospitals. http://news.iowapublicradio.org/post/hospital-acquired-infections

February 1, 2012
Our article The Use of Twitter to Track Levels of Disease Activity and Public Concern in the U.S. During the Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic has won the Robert Wood Johnson’s Foundation Most Influential Research Articles of 2011.

March 4, 2011
Check out our new PLoS One article on Twitter and the H1N1 pandemic.

April 21, 2011
A new iScrub article on Infection Control Today (ICT)! iScrub Phone App Pilot Project Boost Hand Hygiene Compliance

April 4, 2011
iScrub in the news! New iPhone application improved hand hygiene compliance

April 1, 2011
CompEpi presented some new research at the 21st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA 2011) in Dallas, Texas. Read more

December 1, 2010
Our group was well-represented at the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS 2010) in Park City, Utah. Read more

May 4, 2010
Do health care professionals perform hand hygiene? We’ve got an app for that! Read the press release.

March 17, 2010
The Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare Associated Infections advance press release features CompEpi research.

November 5, 2009
CompEpi graduate students Jason Fries, Donald Curtis, and Chris Hlady were winners in the Faculty/Staff/Graduate Assistant Business Plan Competition, hosted by the UI Business College’s John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, where they pitched the next generation iScrub system.

September 9, 2009
iScrub, our new iPhone/iPod Touch application for infection control professionals, is now available online at the Apple iTunes store.

June 18, 2009
Try our Maximal Coverage Calculator for near-optimal placement of sentinel surveillence sites.

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Geoffrey Fairchild

Geoffrey Fairchild
geoffrey-fairchild@uiowa.edu
gfairchild@lanl.gov

Education
2011-present - Ph.D. Computer Science - The University of Iowa
2008–2011 - M.S. Computer Science - The University of Iowa
2003–2008 - B.S. Computer Science - The University of Texas at Austin
2003–2008 - B.S. Mathematics (Scientific Computation) - The University of Texas at Austin

Research
I am a dissertation-stage computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Iowa and a graduate research assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. I am interested in applying techniques from computer science, geographic information systems (GIS), and mathematics to the field of epidemiology in order to simulate, analyze, and predict disease spread. In particular, my work focuses on disease spread across large geographic areas. I am also interesting in modeling human movement and activities.

Tools
University of Iowa Site Placement Calculator
→This tool helps public health officials place disease surveillance sites, stroke centers, and other healthcare facilities in their state.

pyHarmonySearch
→pyHarmonySearch implements the harmony search (HS) global optimization algorithm in Python. HS is a metaheuristic search algorithm that, similar to simulated annealing, tabu, and evolutionary searches, is based on real world phenomena. Specifically, HS mimics a jazz band improvising together.

Publications
Journal Articles
Primary Stroke Centers Should Be Located Using Maximal Coverage Models for Optimal Access
→PDF

Conference Talks
12th Annual Los Alamos National Laboratory Student Symposium 2012
→LANL Student Symposium 2012 Abstract
→LANL Student Symposium 2012 Presentation

International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) 2011
→ISDS 2011 Abstract
→ISDS 2011 Presentation

Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2011
→JSM 2011 Abstract
→JSM 2011 Presentation

International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) 2010
→ISDS 2010 Abstract
→ISDS 2010 Presentation

Conference Posters
International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED) 2009
→IMED 2009 Abstract
→IMED 2009 Poster

Links
LinkedIn
My personal website.