Sofia Kaloper

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

I am a PhD Student in the Geography Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara, advised by Professor Susan Cassels and graduate associate of the Broom Center for Demography at UCSB. 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 researcher of the Wildfire Resilience Initiative (WRI) at UCSB. My work at the WRI involves surveying local residents to assess risk perception and engagement in wildfire risk mitigation activities, overseen by professors Stuart Sweeney and Alan Murray.

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. (Under Review). "Patterns of Sexual Minority Men’s Lifestyle and Healthcare Related Activity Spaces in Los Angeles" Health and Place.

Kaloper S., Casimiro Vieyra E., Kedron P., et al. "The Importance of Context and Spatial Scale when Measuring Health Outcomes in Latino Destinations: Evidence from a Replication of Maldonado et al. 2023" Submitted to Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.

Kaloper, S., Murray, A. T., Reid, S., Gorbach P. & Cassels, S. "Exploring Spatial Uncertainty in HIV Risk Locations: Individual Characteristics and Geographic Reporting Accuracy" Submitted to BMC Public Health.

Contact

sofiakaloper@ucsb.edu

Room 5723, Ellison Hall

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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