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Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Glen Johnson

Glen Johnson

Research Scientist, Bureau of Child and Adolescent Health, New York State Department of Health
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University (1999)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Johnson applies the tools of spatio-temporal statistics and geographic information systems to identify patterns of public health outcomes and to develop clues about environmental and socio-demographic associations with such outcomes.

Select Publications

Johnson, G.D., in press. Prospective spatial prediction of infectious disease: experience of New York State (U.S.A.) with West Nile virus and proposed directions for improved surveillance. Invited by Environmental and Ecological Statistics.

Johnson, G.D., Eidson, M., Schmit, K., Ellis, A. and Kulldorff M. 2006. Geographic Prediction of Human Onset of West Nile Virus Using Dead Crow Clusters: An Evaluation of Year 2002 Data in New York State. American Journal of Epidemiology, 163(2):171-180.

Johnson, G.D. and Patil, G.P. 2006. Landscape Pattern Analysis for Assessing Ecosystem Condition. Springer Monograph Series in Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Vol. 1. Series Editor: G. P. Patil. Springer, NY, 130 pp.

Johnson, G.D., 2004. Small area mapping of prostate cancer incidence in New York State (USA) using fully Bayesian hierarchical modelling. International Journal of Health Geographics, 3:29

Johnson, G.D., Brooks, R. P., Myers, W. L., O'Connell, T. J. and Patil, G. P. 2002. Predictability of bird community based ecological integrity, using landscape measurements. In Rapport, D.J., Lasley, B.L., Rolston, D.E., Nielsen, N.O., Qualset, C.O. and Damania, A.B. (eds.), Managing for Healthy Ecosystems, pp. 617-637. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Johnson, G.D., Myers, W.L, Patil, G.P. and Taillie, C. 2001. Characterizing Watershed-Delineated Landscapes in Pennsylvania using Conditional Entropy Profiles. Landscape Ecology, 16:597-610.

Johnson, G.D., Myers, W.L and Patil, G.P. 2001. Predictability of Surface Water Pollution Loading in Pennsylvania using Watershed-based Landscape Measurements. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 37:821-835.
[Winner of the W.R. Boggess award for "Most Outstanding Paper of the Year"]

Johnson, G.D., and Patil, G.P. 2001. Cost analysis of composite sampling for classification. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 8(2):91-107.

Contact Information

Phone: 518-473-8028
E-mail: gdj01@health.state.ny.us

Additional information on faculty research interests and publications can be found at: http://www.wadsworth.org/resnres/bios/pifacframe.htm