Mark is a senior lecturer
in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences
at Manchester Metropolitan University and is the MSc Co-ordinator for UNIGIS.
He obtained his PhD at
the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) where he
specialised in forecasting meningitis and malaria epidemics
using climate forecasts and remote sensing. He previously
worked for MALSAT - a specialised research group at LSTM
that uses remote sensing and GIS tools for mapping disease
risk in Africa.
He has ongoing research links with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; is a consultant to WHO – Roll Back Malaria Initiative and is an academic consultant for the Health Geography programme (Free University, Amsterdam).
Selected Publications:
Cresswell M et al (2009) GIS & Health: a practical manual. Wiley (in press).
Scholten H. et al (2009) The Added Value of Geographic Information Systems for Location-Based-Science. Springer (in press).
Molesworth A M, Thomson M C, Connor S J, Cresswell M P, Morse A P, Shears P, Hart C A, Cuevas LE. (2002) Where is the Meningitis Belt? Defining an area at risk of epidemic meningitis in Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 96 (3): 242-249
Thomson, M C., Palmer T N. , Morse A P, Cresswell M and Connor S J (2000) Forecasting disease risk with seasonal climate predictions. The Lancet, 355, 1559-1560.
Thomson M C et al (1999) Predicting malaria infection in Gambian children from satellite data and bed net use surveys: The importance of spatial correlation in the interpretation of results. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 61, 1.
Cresswell M P, Morse A P, Thomson M C, Connor S J. (1999) Estimating surface air temperatures, from Meteosat land surface temperatures, using an empirical solar zenith angle model. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 20 (6): 1125-1132.
Thomson M C et al (1998) Developing environmental information systems for improved malaria control planning in Africa. ICOPA IX – 9th international congress of parasitology , 209-215. |
