Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Professor Maged Nabih Kamel Boulos, MD, PhD, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Maged N. Kamel Boulos is a British scientist and Full Professor (Medical and Public Health Informatics) at the School of Medicine (FMUL), University of Lisbon, Portugal.
He worked before that at Sun Yat-sen University (China), University of the Highlands and Islands (Scotland), University of Plymouth, University of Bath, and City, University of London. He has more than 30 years of combined clinical and informatics experience, spanning the clinical, industry and academic/research worlds (1990-2022).
As well as his medical degree and Master’s in Clinical Dermatology, he holds a Master’s in Medical Informatics from King's College, University of London, and a PhD in Measurement & Information in Medicine (GIS) from City, University London.
Maged teaches and has >180 publications (GS h-index: 49) on a specialist range of medical/public health informatics and geoinformatics topics. He is Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and was co-Chair of WG IV/4 within ISPRS Commission IV, 2008-2012. He is the Founding Editor (2001) and Editor-in-Chief of the MEDLINE-indexed International Journal of Health Geographics. His research has received wide media coverage and is/has been funded by national and international bodies, including World Health Organization EMRO and EURO; European Commission; UK TSB KTP Programme; UK AHRC; and Public Health Agency of Canada (funding one of his former PhD students).

Professor Lan Mu, PhD, University of Georgia, United States

Mu, Lan is Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia (UGA), USA. She leads a research group called GIS.HEAL (GIScience for Health and Environment Analytics Lab), which highlights her role as an ambassador for geography and GIScience in public health research. She builds and maintains interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues across various fields, including public health, medicine, psychology, agricultural economics, and computer science. Trained in Urban and Environmental Sciences, Geography, and Environmental Planning, she has worked with socio-economic, physical and social media data using geospatial analysis, environmental planning, computational geometry, cartography, and geovisualization. She is the director of UGA’s GIScience Certificate Program.


Editorial Board
Philip AbdelMalik, PhD, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada
Professor Renato Assuncao, PhD, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Professor John G Breslin, PhD, University of Galway, Ireland
Professor Manfred Buchroithner (retired), PhD, Institut fur Kartographie, TU Dresden, Germany
Professor Ewart Carson, PhD, City University, United Kingdom
Steeve Ebener, PhD, World Health Organisation, Switzerland
Professor Alexander Stewart Fotheringham, PhD, Arizona State University, USA
Professor Jianya Gong, PhD, Wuhan University, China
Professor Sir J. A. Muir Gray, MD, Better Value Healthcare, UK
Professor Gary Higgs, PhD, School of Computing University of Glamorgan, UK
James Holt, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Richard Hoskins, MPH, University of Washington, USA
Rena Jones, PhD, National Cancer Institute, USA
Professor Dina N Kamel Boulos, PhD, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
Omar Khan, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, USA
Keumseok Koh, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, China, People's Republic
Professor Martin Kulldorff, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Professor Andrew B Lawson, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Professor Markku Löytönen, PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland
Professor Marguerite Madden, PhD, Geography, University of Georgia, USA
Tony Mathys, MA, University of Edinburgh, UK
Lisel O'Dwyer, PhD, Flinders University, Australia
Bernd Resch, PhD, University of Salzburg, Austria
Abdul V Roudsari, PhD, University of Victoria, Canada
Professor Emeritus Gerard Rushton, PhD, The University of Iowa, USA
Ric Skinner, MD, Independent Consultant in Healthcare GIS, USA
Sadie J. Ryan, PhD, University of Florida, USA

Statistical Advisor
Professor Ezzeldin Ibrahim, MD, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia