What if maps could lead to better health and well-being for you and your community? Imagine using maps and data to improve our lives, helping us live longer and healthier lives. Join us on a journey as we show you how we make this happen!

Learn how cutting-edge research has revealed the ways our environment can alter our health. Explore how our research has significantly impacted and influenced policy, advocating for meaningful, positive change in our world. Through fascinating case studies spanning two decades, we reveal how maps, stats and data have shaped positive changes in health across communities.

Come and celebrate with us as we mark the 20th anniversary of Te Taiwhenua o te Hauora, The GeoHealth Laboratory.

This seminar will be led by Associate Professor Malcolm Campbell and features guests including the previous GeoHealth Laboratory Directors Professor Simon Kingham and Professor Jamie Pearce.

About the speakers

Associate Professor Campbell is a Quantitative Human Geography with expertise in Health and Medical Geography. In 2024 he became Director of the GeoHealth Laboratory at UC, having been Deputy Director since 2011. Dr Campbell applies quantitative methods and spatial data science to understand and address social and spatial inequalities in health and wellbeing. I led projects on understanding how poverty, wealth and inequality impact on a myriad of social, economic and health outcomes.

Simon Kingham is a Professor of Geography at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa. He was the Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Te Manatu Waka | Ministry of Transport (2018-24). From 2009 to 2024 he was the Director of the GeoHealth Lab, and is now the Deputy Director.

Professor Jamie Pearce was the founding Director of the GeoHealth Lab in 2004 until 2009 when he moved to the University of Edinburgh where he is now Professor of Health Geography. His work considers social, political and environmental processes affecting social and spatial inequalities in health. With colleagues at Edinburgh and Glasgow he has established the Centre for Research on Environment, Society & Health (CRESH).

It’s free to register to attend in person, to watch via Facebook livestream or later on YouTube. Videos of UC Tauhere Connect public talks are available a week after the live event. Watch previous Tauhere Connect talks here.