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GIRAPH is a group of scientists with different backgrounds, with a shared focus on the understanding of how geographic, environmental and health data can be combined to provide insights into disease mechanisms and etiologies.
News and Events
- March 7, 2024: Geolocalization for Studying Gene-Environment Interactions – The example of anti-apolipoprotein A-1 autoantibodies, Stéphane Joost, Noé Fellay, Idris Guessous, Nicolas Vuilleumier | Molecular Diagnostics 2024 Symposium, Swiss Society of Clinical Chemistry (SSCC), Zürich, Switzerland
- October 2020 : GIRAPH is in 36.9 RTS “Dis-moi où tu vis et je te dirai comment tu vas“
- August 2020 : GIRAPH contributes to the fight against SARS-CoV-2. Read our work Geospatial digital monitoring of COVID-19 cases at high spatiotemporal resolution in The Lancet Digital Health
- January 2020 : Read about our work GeoLaus, une étude de l’influence des caractéristiques géo-environ- nementales sur la santé in Praxis
- October 2019 : Obesity and food environment in Geneva, interview of David De Ridder by Santé Perso
- October 2019 : Breast cancer screening inequalities in Geneva, interview of José Sandoval by Santé Perso
- September 2019 : GIRAPH is at the 7th international Jerusalem conference on Health Policy
- September 2019 : GIRAPH’s work in the UNIGE Campus 138 : « Dis-moi qui sont tes voisins, je te dirai comment tu vas »
- March 2018 : Interview of Dr Joost at GEO Summit 2018
- February 2018 : Interview of Dr Guessous and Dr Joost on Radio Lac
- Des médecins à la direction de l’urbanisme ? Forum Bâtir et Planifier « Villes en pleine santé », Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland, 2017. .
- Données médicales et génétiques géoréférencées au lieu de résidence pour un service de santé publique de précision. Swiss Public Health Conference 2017, Basel, Switzerland, 2017. .
- Spatial dependence of body mass index and exposure to night-time noise in the Geneva urban area. X international, interdisciplinary conference on spatial statistics, geographical epidemiology and geographical aspects of public health, Porto, Portugal, 2017. .
- Open science practices in geospatial education and research. Open Science in Practice Summer School (OSIP2017), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2017. .
- Current challenge in landscape genomics: what about the environmental counterpart of high-throughput genomic data?. ESEB XVI Congress, Groningen, NL, 2017. .