Keith Spangler, PhD

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practical Interests

Spangler specializes in spatial analysis, climate change, and social determinants of health, using methods and data sets from both epidemiology and geoscience to understand the health impacts of climate change and other environmental exposures. His recent research projects include:

• Building statistical models to assess hospitalizations and deaths associated with extreme heat
• Applying climate science and big-data analytic skills to derive and publish a data set of complex heat metrics spatially resolved to the county level
• Serving as quality assurance manager for data used in a community participatory research program on cumulative climate and chemical hazards in the Mystic River Watershed
• Developing novel, open-source geospatial methods to improve calculations of the social determinants of health at various scales.