{"id":423,"date":"2018-09-28T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/people\/deborah-thomas\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:00:16","slug":"deborah-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/people\/deborah-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Deborah Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-483\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2018\/09\/Deborah-Thomas-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2018\/09\/Deborah-Thomas-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2018\/09\/Deborah-Thomas.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/>Professor and Chair<br \/>\nDepartment of Geography and Earth Sciences<\/p>\n<p>I specialize in hazards and health geography and have more than twenty years of experience in the application of geographic information science &amp; technology in a variety of social science application areas, including health and disaster management. [read more=&#8217;Read more&#8217; less=&#8217;Read less&#8217;] My teaching and research interests focus on issues of vulnerability\/resilience as they relate to both natural and human-induced hazards and health outcomes, commonly emphasizing the role of technology, particularly GIS, in assessing and evaluating the intersection of human-physical systems and the built environment. Around these themes, I have published in numerous journals and is co-editor a book entitled Social Vulnerability. In 2005, I was a Fulbright Scholar to Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. I have worked for the last 10 years in Tanzania as part of a partnership with the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Mwanza, Tanzania.[\/read]<\/p>\n<p>For more information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/connections\/people\/dthoma88\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty Connections &gt; Dr. Deborah Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor and Chair Department of Geography and Earth Sciences I specialize in hazards and health geography and have more than twenty years of experience in the application of geographic information science &amp; technology in a variety of social science application areas, including health and disaster management. [read more=&#8217;Read more&#8217; less=&#8217;Read less&#8217;] My teaching and research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[60,87,16,24],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography-and-earth-sciences","tag-environmental-health","tag-gis-mapping","tag-global-health","tag-health-technology"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajj23-6P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}