Geographic & Contextual Measures Core

地理和上下文测量核心(GCMC)将为 与该中心有关的调查人员收集、管理和解释 地理和背景因素。在其他几个专门领域也有援助。 包括环境流行病学、社会和行为流行病学、地理学 信息系统(GIS)和数字表型。核心教职员工将为调查人员提供建议 关于数据管理问题，大规模、高分辨率地理和背景数据的可用性 数据来源和智能手机应用程序的使用，并将促进中心的培训 会员、研究生和从事中心相关项目的研究员。提供这些服务 通过核心设施提供的服务将允许我们在绘制的同时构建和维护专门的资源 关于通过环境、卫生、社会和社会事务部提供的更广泛的资源 行为科学、生物统计学和哈佛大学地理分析中心。 GCMC还将直接与该中心的社区参与核心(CEC)进行协作。 拥有核心设施还为我们提供了必要的基础设施，以支持教育 与中心调查人员相关的研讨会和讲习班等活动。GCMC教职员工 研究人员是许多研究领域的专家，并积极直接从事研究 与中心重新设想扩大的环境定义这一新主题有关。

The Geographic and Contextual Measures Core (GCMC) will provide cutting-edge support to investigators associated with the Center for the collection, management, and interpretation of geographic and contextual factors. Assistance is also available in several other specialized areas including environmental epidemiology, social and behavioral epidemiology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and digital phenotyping. Core faculty and staff will advise investigators on data management issues, availability of large-scale, high-resolution geographic and contextual data sources, and the use of smartphone applications, and will facilitate training for Center members, graduate students, and fellows working on Center-related projects. Providing these services via a core facility will allow us to build and maintain specialized resources while drawing on the broader resources available through the Departments of Environmental Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Biostatistics, and the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard. The GCMC will also collaborate directly with the Center's Community Engagement Core (CEC). Having a core facility also provides us with the necessary infrastructure to support educational activities such as seminars and workshops of relevance to Center investigators. GCMC faculty and researchers are experts in many fields of study and actively engage in research directly related to the Center's new theme of re-envisioning an expanded definition of the environment.