Brian Bossak
Professor of Public Health
Education
- Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- Ph.D. in Geography (Natural Hazards / Climate Change), Florida State University
- M.P.H. in Environmental Health, Emory University
- M.A. in Geography (Geographic Systems / Remote Sensing), University of Georgia
- B.S. in Geography (Climatology), University of Georgia
Research Interests
- Spatial Epidemiology / Medical Geography
- Climate Change and Health
- Vector-borne Disease
- Applied GIS / Remote Sensing
- Natural Hazards / Public Health Preparedness
- Water Quality
Affiliations
- Carolinas Heat Health Coalition
- Royal Society for Public Health (Fellow)
- Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (Fellow)
- South Carolina Public Health Association
- South Carolina Public Health Reserve Corps
Honors & Awards
- Fulbright Scholar Award, Fulbright US Scholar Program, 2022
Courses Taught
- HEAL 215: Intro to Public Health
- HEAL 345: Environmental Health
- HEAL 350: Epidemiology
- HEAL 460: Public Health Administration
Selected Publications
- Emery, B., Fullerton, H., & Bossak, B. (2022), “.” Dialogues in Health, 1.
- Sugg, M.M., Runkle, J.D., Dow, K., Barnes, J., Stevens, S., Pearce, J., Bossak, B., & Curtis, S. (2022), “.” International Journal of Biometeorology, 66(8), 1665-1681.
- Bossak, B.H., & Andritsch, S. (2022), “.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(1).
- Bossak, B.H., & Turk, C.A. (2021), “.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 5892.
- Lynn, M.K., Bossak, B.H., Sandifer, P.A., Watson, A., & Nolan, M.S. (2020), “.” Acta tropica, 205, 105361.
- Luque, J.S., Becker, A., Bossak, B.H., Grzywacz, J.G., Tovar-Aguilar, J.A., & Guo, Y. (2020), “.” Journal of Agromedicine, 25(2), 190-200.
- Luque, J.S., Bossak, B.H., Davila, C.B., & Tovar-Aguilar, J.A. (2019), “.” Journal of Agromedicine, 24(1), 15-25.
- Lynn, M.K., & Bossak, B.H. (2017), “.” Journal of Global Epidemiology and Environmental Health, 1(1), 1-6.
- Welford, M.R., Bossak, B.H., & Gibney, E.J. (2017), “.” In Hurricanes and Climate Change, 3, 35-54.
- Bossak, B. H., & Welford, M. R. (2016), “”. In Spatial analysis in health geography 1st Ed: 71-84.