Sofia Kaloper

Geography MA/PhD Student at the University of California at Santa Barbara

I am an MA/PhD Student in the Geography Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara, advised by Professor Susan Cassels. I am broadly interested in health and human geography, spatial statistics, spatial analysis, geo-spatial modeling techniques, the social determinants of health and infectious disease modeling. My personal research focuses on attempting to quantify the uncertainty contained within survey collected locations related to HIV risk and prevention activities so that the effect of the uncertainty on results of geospatial analysis techniques can be better understood and accounted for. I am also a graduate associate of the Broom Center for Demography at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Publications

Reid SC, Wang V, Assaf RD, Kaloper S, Murray AT, Shoptaw S, Gorbach P, Cassels S. Novel Location-Based Survey Using Cognitive Interviews to Assess Geographic Networks and Hotspots of Sex and Drug Use: Implementation and Validation Study. JMIR Form Res. 2023 Jun 22;7:e45188. doi: 10.2196/45188. PMID: 37347520; PMCID: PMC10337421.

Link to Paper

Cassels, S., Reid, S. C., Murray, A. T., Kaloper, S., Wang, V., Shoptaw, S. & Gorbach P. (2024). Patterns of Sexual Minority Men’s Lifestyle and Healthcare Related Activity Spaces in Los Angeles. Health and Place, Preprint Submitted October 7, 2024.

Contact

sofiakaloper@ucsb.edu

Room 5723, Ellison Hall

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106