Tom Koch

How real is this image of the earth? Are we influenced by how the photo has been taken or by whom? In this article Tom takes us through the ethics of maps and the reality that data does not speak and ecologists are biased.

The way in which we seek to understand the endemic and epidemic conditions of disease that afflicts us, has always been a matter of landscape ecology. Tom Koch from the University of British Columbia (medical geography) provides an overview of the spatial patterns of disease as a result of complex human and environmental factors.