Mei-Po Kwan
Born1962
Alma materUniversity of California, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
OccupationGeographer

Mei-Po Kwan (Chinese: 關美寶, born 1962) is a Hong Kong geographer and academic. Her contributions to the field include environmental health, human mobility, transport and health issues in cities, and geographic information science (GIScience).[1]

Education

Kwan earned a Ph.D. in geography in 1994 (UCSB), an M.A. in urban planning in 1989 (UCLA), and a B.SoSci. in geography in 1985 (CUHK).[1][2]

Career

Kwan is a Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management and Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[3] As a professor, she teaches Advanced GIS, Business Applications of Geographic Information Science, GIS for Social Science and Business Research, and, Design and Implementation for Geographic Information Systems. Her research focuses on GIScience, specifically as it applies to human mobility, health, transport, environmental, and social issues in urban areas.[1][2] She has made major contributions to time geography.

Kwan discovered the uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP)[4] and the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP).[5] She is a leading researcher in deploying real-time GPS tracking and mobile sensing to collect individual-level data in environmental health research. Her recent projects examine the health impacts of individual environmental exposure (e.g., noise, air pollution, green space), the protection of geoprivacy via the development of a Geospatial Virtual Data Enclave (GVDE), and the space-time dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7][8]

She has received over US$62.7 million grant support from sources including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation,[9] the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She has published over 420 books, journal articles[10][11] and book chapters. She has delivered over 370 keynote addresses,[12] invited lectures[13] and other invited presentations in more than 20 countries.

Kwan had served as an editor of Annals of the American Association of Geographers for 12 years.[14] She also founded the International Geospatial Health Research Network (IGHRN) in 2013 in an international forum jointly organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Hong Kong, Utrecht University, the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS), and several other organizations in the U.S. and Europe.

Awards and recognition

  • James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied Geography, AAG Applied Geography Specialty Group, 2022[1][2]
  • Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Web of Science, Clarivate, 2021[1][2]
  • Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography, American Association of Geographers, 2021[1][2]
  • Fellow, American Association of Geographers, 2020[1][2]
  • Highly Cited Researcher 2019, Web of Science, Clarivate, 2019[1][2]
  • Fellow, U.K. Academy of Social Sciences, 2018[1][2]
  • Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography, American Association of Geographers, 2018[1][2]
  • Alan Hay Award in Transport Geography, Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), 2017[1][2]
  • Distinguished Scholar Award, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS), 2017[1][2]
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 2016[1][2]
  • E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, American Association of Geographers, 2016[1][2]
  • Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, 2016[1]<[2]
  • Distinguished Scholarship Honors, Association of American Geographers, 2011[1][2]
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009[1][2]
  • University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award, 2005[1][2]
  • Edward L. Ullman Award, AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group, 2005[1][2]
  • Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (UK) (since 2004)[1][2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science". University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Kwan, Mei-Po. "Mei-Po Kwan". meipokwan.org. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "Department of Geography and Resource Management (GRM), The Chinese University of Hong Kong". Department of Geography and Resource Management (GRM), The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
  4. ↑ Kwan, Mei-Po (September 2012). "The uncertain geographic context problem" (PDF). Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102 (5): 958–968. doi:10.1080/00045608.2012.687349. S2CID 52024592.
  5. ↑ Kwan, Mei-Po (September 2018). "The neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP): an elusive confounder of the neighborhood effect" (PDF). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15 (9): 1841. doi:10.3390/ijerph15091841. PMC 6163400. PMID 30150510.
  6. ↑ Yates, Diana. "Culture shapes willingness to share personal data to reduce COVID-19 spread". news.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
  7. ↑ Kim, Junghwan; Kwan, Mei-Po (January 2021). "An Examination of People's Privacy Concerns, Perceptions of Social Benefits, and Acceptance of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures That Harness Location Information: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and South Korea". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 10 (1): 25. Bibcode:2021IJGI...10...25K. doi:10.3390/ijgi10010025. ISSN 2220-9964.
  8. ↑ Kwan, Mei-Po; Price, Marie (9 September 2020). "American Geographical Society: Tracking Movement through Space during COVID-19". YouTube.
  9. ↑ "NSF Award Search: 'Mei-Po Kwan'". search.nsf.gov.
  10. ↑ "Mei-Po Kwan Google Scholar Profile". scholar.google.com.
  11. ↑ "Taylor & Francis Online journals search: Author: Kwan, Mei-Po". www.tandfonline.com.
  12. ↑ "List of Keynotes and Presentations". meipokwan.org.
  13. ↑ For example: Kwan, Mei-Po (10 March 2017). "UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies: What about time in transportation and health research?". YouTube.
  14. ↑ "Annals of the American Association of Geographers Editorial Board". www.tandfonline.com.
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