Northrop Grumman
GIS
156 Erie Ave
Decatur,
GA
USA
30030
jtobias@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Public Health GIS Professional (2000-Present)
-Spatial Epidemiology / Mapping of Rates / Clusters
-CDC GIS contractor / consultant / developer
-Lecture on GIS topics for universities / graduate students
-Provide GIS workshops for URISA public health
-Present at CDC Public Health Informatics Network (PHIN)
-National and International Disaster Response GIS
-International GIS consultation
-GISP certification
Marine Science GIS Professional (1992-2000)
--NOAA Research Biologist and Scientific Diver
-GIS used for planning shipboard / aerial surveys / scuba / reef fish visual census surveys
-GIS used for mapping / tracking of tagged marine animals.
Publications:
SaTScan on a Cloud: On-Demand Large Scale Spatial Analysis of Epidemics. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. Vol.2, No. 1, 2010 http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/ojphi
Immunization Information Systems Use During a Public Health Emergency in the United States
Journal of Public Health Management Practice, 2007, 13(5), 481-485.
http://www.jphmp.com/pt/re/jphmp/abstract.00124784-200709000-00009.htm
Expansion of Simple Models for Bioterrorism Response to Determine Demographics and
Critical Infrastructure Needs. Public Health GIS News & Information, Janurary 2006 pg 11-13.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/gis/cdcgis68.pdf
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Bioterrorism / Disaster Planning:
A Simple Model to Find First Responders During A Terror Attack on the Atlanta MARTA System. Public Health GIS News and Information, November 2005 (No. 67) pg 11-13.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/gis/cdcgis67.pdf
National Immunization Conference (March 2006) – Poster Presentation
GIS and Registry Data: A new tool to detect pockets of need.
http://cdc.confex.com/cdc/nic2006/techprogram/P10185.HTM
Georgia Perinatal and Premature Mortality Measures by Census Tract with Commission Districts, 1998-2002 http://health.state.ga.us/healthdata/vital.asp
A Decade of Change: The Demographic Atlas of Georgia 1990 & 2000
http://health.state.ga.us/pdfs/ohip/gacensusatlas.1990.2000.pdf
Metro Atlanta Public Health GIS: A Collaborative Effort to Collect, Illustrate, and Analyze
Surveillance for West Nile Virus (WNV) Activity in the Metropolitan Atlanta Area.
http://health.state.ga.us/pdfs/epi/vbd/gisopenhouseposter.04.pdf
VHF Radio Tracking of a North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena Glacialis) Female and Calf
in the Calving Ground: Preliminary Results; January 1999.
http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/PDFdocs/Atl-RightwhaleVHF-tagging-1999.pdf
Baseline Data for Evaluating Reef Fish Populations in the Florida Keys.
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-427. 61p.
http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/PDFdocs/427techmemo.pdf
Opportunistic sightings of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, along the southeast
Florida coast and Florida Bay, 1992-1997. NOAA Tech. Mem. 435. 18pp.
http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/PDFdocs/435techmemo.pdf
CDC China Earthquake Response: A Mobile Data Collection System Implementation and Training
Poster, ESRI Health Conference, 2008.
The Public Health Distributed Geospatial Intelligence Network (PH-DGInet) Pilot
Poster, ESRI Health Conference, 2008.
http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/health08/docs/tuesday/health_response.pdf
CDC China Earthquake Response: A Mobile Data Collection System Implementation and Training
ESRI Federal User Conference, 2009
http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/feduc09/papers/tobias_china%20response_v4.pdf
The Public Health Distributed Geospatial Intelligence Network (PH-DGInet) Pilot
Poster, ESRI Federal User Conference, 2009
http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/feduc09/papers/tobias_ph-dginet_esri_fed_uc_2009.pdf
Free, Fast, Flexible and Fit for First-Class GIS: Open-Source USPS Address Validation/Standardization QED, PHIN Conference 2009. http://cdc.confex.com/cdc/phin2009/webprogram/Paper20901.html