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.
Key highlights:
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 actionable, practical, 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. See our GitHub repository.
Feel free to contact us with any questions, suggestions, and feedback at geoexmap@fredhutch.org.
geoexmap is supported by funding from the Dillon Family Foundation.