In July, Rina Ghose, professor, joined the UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science’s Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering.
She is an expert in geomatics, geographic information science, public participation GIS, urban studies, population and health.
Ghose’s research advances environmental and social sustainability through a data-driven and community-engaged approach. She has published over 55 journal articles and book chapters and has received an Excellence in Research award from UWM Foundation.
She is researching Covid-19 related social media misinformation and its impacts. She already found a direct correlation between locations where Twitter misinformation originated and subsequent spikes in COVID-19 infections and deaths in those areas weeks later.
Her other research projects include precision epidemiology and the opioid crisis: using next generation geospatial analyses to guide community level responses in diverse and segregated metropolitan areas; and structural discrimination and health outcomes in Milwaukee at the community and individual level.
Ghose’s office is Room 1094 and her email address is rghose@uwm.edu.