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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

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
My research focuses on combining GIS with computer science and mathematics (specifically, statistics) in order to visualize and analyze disease spread across potentially large geographies.

Sentinel Surveillance Placement Calculator
→This tool helps public health officials place disease surveillance sites in their state.

Publications
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

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

Links
LinkedIn
FangSoft - My personal website.