#  2020 CGA Virtual Forum: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic with Geospatial Research and Applications 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 1, 2020** 

 10:00AM - 01:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Online (Time is in EDT)**  



 

 



 

###  [Agenda (with abstracts, speakers' biographies, and **slides for download**)](https://cga-download.hmdc.harvard.edu/publish_web/CGA_Conferences/2020_Virtual_Forum/Virtual_Forum_Program.pdf)

Sort    **Time (EDT)**

 

  **Topic**

 

  **Speaker**

 

    10:00 AM

 

  *Welcome & Introduction*

 

  Jason Ur (Harvard)

 

    10:05 AM

 

  Measuring Changes in Mobility due to Social Distancing Interventions against COVID-19

 

  Caroline Buckee (Harvard)

 

    10:20 AM

 

  Protecting Individual Geoprivacy in COVID-19 Research in the Big Data Era

 

  Mei-Po Kwan (CUHK)

 

    10:35 AM

 

  Geo-social Media Analytics to Track the Spread of COVID-19

 

  Bernd Resch (U. Salzburg)

 

    10:50 AM

 

  Surveillance and Modeling of COVID-19 Epidemics with Human Movement Trajectory Data

 

  Xun Shi (Dartmouth)

 

    11:05 AM

 

  Digital Tracing for Identifying Geospatial Temporal Hotspots of COVID-19 Transmission

 

  Yulin Hswen (Harvard)

 

    11:20 AM

 

  *Break*

 

  

    11:30 AM

 

  Using GIS to Understand and Plan for Hospitals Surge and Alternate Care Locations

 

  Este Geraghty (Esri)

 

    11:45 AM

 

  Geospatial Relationships in the COVID-19 Misinformation Infodemic

 

  Rhys O'Neill (Novetta)

 

    12:00 PM

 

  Taking the pulse of COVID-19: A spatiotemporal rapid response

 

  Phil Yang (GMU)

 

    12:15 PM

 

  Overcoming Obstacles to Accessing, Sharing, and Using Confidential COVID-19 Geospatial Data

 

  Doug Richardson (Harvard)

 

    12:30 PM

 

  *Panel Discussion*

 

  Matt Wilson (UKY) - Moderator

 

 



 **Note**: You may also check out the postponed 2020 CGA Conference: [FROM GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH TO HEALTH SOLUTIONS](/event/2020-cga-conference-spatial-health-tentative).



 

 



 

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