Dr Daniel Parker CGeog
Employer Name
University of California, Irvine
Biography
Dr. Daniel M. Parker is an anthropologist, demographer, medical geographer, and spatial epidemiologist whose research examines the relationships among health, human mobility, environment, and access to care in marginalized and hard-to-reach populations. His work focuses on infectious diseases, population movement, displacement, frontier and remote settlements, and the geographic and social processes that shape health outcomes in under-resourced settings. Drawing on approaches from geography, epidemiology, demography, and anthropology, he integrates geographic information systems (GIS), Earth Observation data, spatial analysis, field epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, and statistical modeling to investigate disease transmission, healthcare access, and population vulnerability across diverse environments. His research spans vector-borne, respiratory, and emerging infectious diseases, with particular emphasis on how human mobility, environmental conditions, and healthcare access influence disease risk in vulnerable populations. His work has included large-scale geographic reconnaissance and surveillance efforts for malaria elimination in Eastern Myanmar, studies of human movement and disease transmission across international border regions, research on healthcare access among displaced populations, and investigations of vector-borne disease ecology in both rural and urban settings. Through collaborations with community organizations, governments, NGOs, and academic institutions, his research seeks to generate empirically grounded evidence that informs public health policy and interventions in vulnerable populations.