SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter March 2016 (Volume 8, Number 1): GIS in Public Health Research

Foreword	i-ii
Message from the Editor Chi-Yin Chow and Zhuojie Huang	1
Section 1: Special Issue on GIS in Public Health Research
Introduction to this Special Issue: GIS in Public Health Research Chi-Yin Chow and Zhuojie Huang	2
From Farm to Fork: How Spatial-Temporal Data can Accelerate Foodborne Illness Investigation in a Global Food Supply Chain Kun Hu, Stefan Edlund, Matthew Davis, and James Kaufman	3-11
Multiscale Modeling Approach for Hierarchical Aligned Aggregated Small Area Health Data Mehreteab Aregay, Andrew B. Lawson, Christel Faes, Russell S. Kirby, Rachel Carroll, and Kevin Watjou	12-19
Integrating Geographic Activity Space and Social Network Space to Promote Healthy Lifestyles Xinyue Ye and Jay Lee	20-33
A Fully GIS-Integrated Simulation Approach for Analyzing the Spread of Epidemics in Urban Areas Hedi Haddad, Bernard Moulin, and Marius Thériault	34-41
Gamifying Hand Physical Therapy with Intelligent 3D Navigation Imad Afyouni, Faizan Ur Rehman, Sohaib Ghani, Ahmad Qamar, and Saleh Basalamah	42-49
Section 2: Event Reports
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 Conference Report Michael Gertz, Matthias Renz, and Jagan Sankaranarayanan	50-52
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 Industrial Workshop Report Egemen Tanin and Goce Trajcevski	53-54
ACM SIGSPATIAL IWCTS 2015 Workshop Report Yan Huang and Xin Chen	55
ACM SIGSPATIAL MobiGIS 2015 Workshop Report Chi-Yin Chow, Maria Luisa Damiani, and Shashi Shekhar	56