CURRICULUM VITAE Jane LAW, Bsc. Msc ... - University of Waterloo

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