CURRICULUM VITAE Jane LAW, Bsc. Msc ... - University of Waterloo
CURRICULUM VITAE Jane LAW, Bsc. Msc ... - University of Waterloo
CURRICULUM VITAE Jane LAW, Bsc. Msc ... - University of Waterloo
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1. DEGREES<br />
Ph.D.<br />
Diploma<br />
MSc.<br />
BSc.<br />
<strong>CURRICULUM</strong> <strong>VITAE</strong><br />
<strong>Jane</strong> <strong>LAW</strong>, BSc. MSc. PhD<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Planning and Department <strong>of</strong> Health Studies and Gerontology<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Waterloo</strong><br />
<strong>Waterloo</strong>, Ontario, Canada<br />
Email: j9law@uwaterloo.ca<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> New Brunswick, Canada, Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering,<br />
2000<br />
<strong>University</strong> Teaching, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> New Brunswick, Canada, 1999<br />
Hong Kong Polytechnic <strong>University</strong>, Hong Kong, Land Surveying & Geo-<br />
Informatics, 1994<br />
(First Class Honour), North East London Polytechnic (now <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> East<br />
London), UK, Surveying and Mapping Sciences, 1985<br />
2. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY<br />
2007-present<br />
2001-2007<br />
1996-2001<br />
1985-1996<br />
1984<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, School <strong>of</strong> Planning and Department <strong>of</strong> Health Studies and<br />
Gerontology (joint appointment), <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Waterloo</strong>, Canada<br />
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department <strong>of</strong> Public Health and Primary Care,<br />
Biostatistics Unit (Medical Research Council) and Department <strong>of</strong> Geography,<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Cambridge, UK<br />
Research Assistant, Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy, Fredericton,<br />
New Brunswick, Canada<br />
Land Surveyor, Lands Department (Land Information Centre, Geodetic Survey,<br />
Topographical Mapping, Cadastral Survey, Technical Information Unit) and<br />
Highways Department, Hong Kong Government, Hong Kong<br />
Land Survey Trainee, Engineering Survey Ltd., UK<br />
3. RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP<br />
Areas <strong>of</strong> interest<br />
GIS and Public Health; Spatial Demography; Bayesian Spatial Analysis; Hierarchical Spatial<br />
Modeling and Analysis; Disease Mapping; Crime Mapping; Spatial/Environmental<br />
Epidemiology; Environmental Criminology; Healthy communities and the built environment;<br />
Neighbourhood/community effect; Health Geomatics, Land Information Systems.<br />
Articles in peer-reviewed journals<br />
• Haining,R., J. Law, and D. Griffith (2009). “Modelling small area counts in the presence <strong>of</strong><br />
overdispersion and spatial autocorrelation.” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53:<br />
2923-2937.<br />
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• Law, J. (2009). Book review: “Lawson, A.B. Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical<br />
Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology. CRC 2008.” Biometrics Vol. 65, 661-662.<br />
• Haining, R.P and J. Law (2007). “Combining Police Perceptions with Police Records <strong>of</strong><br />
Serious Crime Areas: a Modelling Approach.” Journal <strong>of</strong> the Royal Statistical Society,<br />
Series A, Vol. 170: 4, 1019-1034.<br />
• Haining, R.P, J. Law, Maheswaran, R., T. Pearson, and P. Brindley (2007). “Bayesian<br />
Modelling <strong>of</strong> Environmental Risk: a Small Area Ecological Study <strong>of</strong> Coronary Heart Disease<br />
Mortality in relation to Modelled Outdoor Nitrogen Oxide Levels.” Stochastic<br />
Environmental Research and Risk Assessment Vol. 21, No. 5, 501-509.<br />
• Law, J., R. P. Haining, R. Maheswaran, and T. Pearson (2006). "Analysing the Relationship<br />
between Smoking and Coronary Heart Disease at the Small Area Level: A Bayesian<br />
Approach to Spatial Modelling." Geographical Analysis 38:2 140-159.<br />
• Maheswaran, R., R. P. Haining, T. Pearson, J. Law, P. Brindley, and N. G. Best (2006).<br />
"Outdoor NOx and Stroke Mortality: Adjusting for Small Area Level Smoking Prevalence<br />
Using a Bayesian Approach." Statistical Methods for Medical Research 15, 499-516.<br />
• Maheswaran, R., R. P. Haining, P. Brindley, J. Law, T. Pearson, P. R. Fryers, S. Wise, and<br />
M. J. Campbell (2005). "Outdoor Air Pollution and Stroke in Sheffield, United Kingdom: A<br />
Small-Area Level Geographical Study." Stroke 36, 239-43.<br />
• Maheswaran, R., R. Haining, P. Brindley, J. Law, T. Pearson, P. Fryers, S. Wise, and M.<br />
Campbell (2005). "Outdoor Air Pollution, Mortality, and Hospital Admissions from<br />
Coronary Heart Disease in Sheffield, UK: A Small-Area Level Ecological Study." European<br />
Heart Journal, 2543-2549.<br />
• Law, J., and R. P. Haining (2004). "A Bayesian Approach to Modelling Binary Data: The<br />
case <strong>of</strong> High-Intensity Crime Areas." Geographical Analysis 36:3 197-216.<br />
Chapters in books<br />
• Law, J., and P. W. Chan (2009). “GIS in Public Health” in W. Dong (ed.) Public Health<br />
Sciences, Renmin <strong>University</strong> Press, Beijing, pp 199-218.<br />
• Law, J., and D. Willms, (2002) “Provincial maps depicting neighbourhood types” in: D.<br />
Willms (ed.) Vulnerable Children: Findings from Canada’s National Longitudinal Survey <strong>of</strong><br />
Children and Youth (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Alberta Press and Human Resources Development<br />
Canada) pp 389-406.<br />
Invited seminar/workshop contributions<br />
• Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, 40 th Annual Symposium, “Global perspectives on<br />
Human Health and Nutrition”, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Guelph, 2010<br />
• Department <strong>of</strong> Geography, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Buffalo, New York, USA, 2009.<br />
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) Colloquium<br />
Series, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Buffalo, New York, USA, 2009.<br />
• Healthy Communities Knowledge Exchange Forum, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Waterloo</strong>, 2008.<br />
• Ontario Cancer Cohort Ecological Variable Review Workshop, Cancer Care Ontario,<br />
Toronto, 2008.<br />
• The Vespucci Initiative for the advancement <strong>of</strong> geographic information science,<br />
International “Spatial analysis” workshop, Fiesole, Italy, 2004.<br />
• Royal Statistical Society, Local Group Seminar, Department <strong>of</strong> Statistics, Sheffield<br />
<strong>University</strong>, UK, 2003.<br />
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• Centre for Applied Statistics, Lancaster <strong>University</strong>, UK, 2003.<br />
• Social Science and Statistics Seminar, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Southhampton, UK, 2003.<br />
• Department <strong>of</strong> Statistics, Economics, Accounting and Management Systems, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Hertfordshire Statistics Seminar, UK, 2002.<br />
Other selected publications<br />
• Willms, J.D., D.L. Watts, R. Konarski, and J. Law (1999). Forecasting Hospital Utilization<br />
Rates in New Brunswick. Report prepared for the New Brunswick Health Association,<br />
Fredericton, New Brunswick.<br />
• Law, J., and C.T. Lau (1995). “Automatic updating <strong>of</strong> digital map.” Proceedings <strong>of</strong> the<br />
AM/FM International Conference XVIII, Baltimore, USA.<br />
• Law, J., and A. Brimicombe (1994). “Integrating primary and secondary data sources in land<br />
information systems for recording change.” Proceedings <strong>of</strong> the Fig XX International<br />
Congress, Melbourne, Australia.<br />
Conference papers<br />
• Maheswaran, R., G. Li, J. Law, R. Haining, M. Blangiardo, S. Richardson, and N. Best<br />
“Inference from ecological models: air pollution and stroke using data from Sheffield,<br />
England”, GEOMED, 6th international, interdisciplinary conference on geomedical systems,<br />
Charleston, SC, USA, 2009.<br />
• Haining, R. And Law, J. “Bayesian spatial modelling <strong>of</strong> high-intensity crime areas”, Royal<br />
Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, UK, 2003.<br />
• Law, J. And Haining, R. “Bayesian spatial modelling <strong>of</strong> high-intensity crime areas”,<br />
Regional Science Association International Conference, Scotland, UK, 2003.<br />
• Law, J. “Exploring communities using multivariate demographic Data”, Geo99: Mapping the<br />
Future: Tools, Techniques, Technologies, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 1999.<br />
• Law, J. “Identifying communities through spatial analysis <strong>of</strong> multivariate demographic data”,<br />
Spatial Data Infrastructure’98: The 10 th International Geomatics Conference, Ottawa,<br />
Canada, 1998.<br />
• Law, J. “The application and potential development <strong>of</strong> land information system in survey<br />
division, Highways Department, Hong Kong”, Asia GIS/LIS AM/FM and Spatial Analysis<br />
Conference, Hong Kong, 1994.<br />
Research funding<br />
Year Granting Agency Project Title<br />
2009- NSERC (Discovery grant) Advancing spatial analysis methodologies using a<br />
2014<br />
Bayesian approach: combining individual and<br />
aggregated data in small area studies (Principal<br />
investigator)<br />
2009- CIHR (Strategic Training Pan Canadian Strategic Training in Population<br />
2015 Initiative in Health Intervention Research for Chronic Disease Prevention<br />
Research)<br />
(Co-investigator)<br />
2007 UW/SSHRC seed grant A pilot study for explaining geographic variation <strong>of</strong><br />
crime using Bayesian spatial analysis (Principal<br />
investigator)<br />
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4. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essional affiliations<br />
• Association <strong>of</strong> Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario<br />
• Canadian Public Health Association<br />
• Ontario Public Health Association<br />
• Canadian Association <strong>of</strong> Geographers<br />
• UK Royal Institution <strong>of</strong> Chartered Surveyors (RICS), pr<strong>of</strong>essional member<br />
• The Hong Kong Institute <strong>of</strong> Surveyors, pr<strong>of</strong>essional member<br />
Refereeing<br />
• Reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council <strong>of</strong> Canada (Standard<br />
Research Grants Program), 2009.<br />
• Reviewer for International Journal <strong>of</strong> Health Geographies; Computers, Environment and<br />
Urban Systems; Annals <strong>of</strong> the Association <strong>of</strong> American Geographers; Environment and<br />
Planning A; Geographical Analysis; Journal <strong>of</strong> Geographical Systems; and Stochastic<br />
Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 2003-present.<br />
• Reviewer for International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing book series<br />
volume on “Advances in Web-based GIS, Mapping Services and Applications”, 2009 (book<br />
chapter).<br />
• Reviewer for “An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems”, 3 rd edition by Ian<br />
Heywood et al. for Pearson Education Prentice Hall Press, 2003.<br />
• Committee member, Horwood (Best Paper) Award URISA International, 2000-2001.<br />
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