Deborah Thomas

Deborah Thomas is professor and chair in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She specializes in hazards and health geography and has more than 20 years of experience in the application of geographic information science & technology (GIS&T) in a variety of social science application areas, including health and disaster management. She has published in numerous journals and is co-editor of the recently published book entitled Social Vulnerability. In 2005, she was a Fulbright Scholar to Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has worked over 10 years in Tanzania as part of a partnership with the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Mwanza, Tanzania.