Thank you for visiting the Geospatial Exposome Map (geoexmap).
geoexmap was developed by the Fred Hutch Cancer Center Geospatial Exposome Lab as an open-source geospatial web app to support community outreach and engagement work in reducing cancer burden within the state of Washington, the catchment area for the Fred Hutch Cancer Center.
- Through integrating geospatial science (location-based technologies) with the exposome (the totality of environmental exposures that we experience throughout our lives) (reference), geoexmap enables the visualization of numerous neighborhood-level health and environmental data to better characterize and understand the Washington State catchment area population, health disparities, and underserved communities.
- We proudly implemented a community-engaged approach to developing geoexmap, incorporating valuable input from community members and organizations through Fred Hutch Cancer Center Community Coalitions
- geoexmap contains information from the latest available datasets (2019-present) at the census tract (or neighborhood) and county levels for factors in the domains of sociodemographics, prevention, healthcare access, and the exposome (natural environment, built environment, and social environment)
- geoexmap includes user-centered functionalities for mapping, customizable graphs and tables, data importing and exporting, overlaying multiple spatial data layers, neighborhood search, and documentation.
- To promote disease prevention and control efforts, health and prevention tips
are provided with links to evidence-based strategies for exposure mitigation of modifiable risk factors (e.g., access to free radon test kits) as well as resources for health and well-being. - geoexmap was designed with reproducible and scalable methods that can be adopted by other cancer centers and institutions, created using open-source software (R Shiny, leaflet, Docker) and publicly available geospatial data.
Feel free to contact us with any questions, suggestions, and feedback at geoexmap@fredhutch.org or reach out to Dr. Trang VoPham directly trang@fredhutch.org.
geoexmap is supported by funding from the Dillon Family Foundation.