Dear Colleagues, 

Environmental and public health informatics is a growing interdisciplinary field at the intersection of human health, information science and technology, and social and behavioral science that focuses on data collection, sharing, and analysis. Data are transformed into valuable environmental and public health information in order to inform and develop strategic plans, policies, and programs.

The coronavirus pandemic has raised global awareness about the importance of health data and informatics. The volume of data used by health and environmental professionals has increased exponentially, including data about human individuals as well as aggregate data about communities. This Special Issue examines the use of environmental and public health informatics to shed light on opportunities and challenges related to the health of our communities.

This Special Issue seeks to enhance the integration of environment and humans to help to develop management solutions that can reduce environmental risk and promote human health. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary collaboration that promotes the theoretical and/or applied aspects of environmental information sciences, regardless of disciplinary boundaries. Innovations in public health data analytics and bioinformatics are critically important to take full advantage of big data and to promote evidence-based public health since public health issues are becoming more urgent and complex. There are large amounts of electronic data dealing with environmental hazards, pollution, public health, and other fields. The topics addressed include:

  * Decision and risk analysis for human health
  * human hazards
  * Mathematical methods for understanding hazards and public health
  * Biostatistics and its applications
  * Environmental data, systems modeling, and optimization
  * Control of waste treatment and pollution reduction processes
  * Environmental systems science, hazards, and threat analyses
  * Environmental, ecological, and resource management and planning
  * Monitoring and analytical techniques of environmental quality
  * Artificial intelligence and expert systems for understanding
    environmental hazards
  * Other areas of information technology

In summary, this Special Issue examines mathematical and statistical approaches to further the field of environmental and human informatics in the era of big and open data. As this is an interdisciplinary field of science, we encourage environmental and bioinformatics papers that combine computer science, statistics, mathematics, and engineering to analyze and interpret biological data.

Prof. Dr. Jason Levy
Guest Editor

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