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Professor Peter K Koh  高金錫 助理教授

Assistant Professor 

Room 10.31
391 77027
peterkoh@hku.hk

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Peter K. Koh joined the department in November 2018. Peter received his BA and MA degrees in Economics from Seoul National University, South Korea and his PhD degree in Geography from Michigan State University, USA. He also had a postdoctoral training in public health at The Ohio State University.

Peter’s research interests focus on using varied data including but not limited to public health surveys, census data, and spatial data to investigate the associations between health conditions/diseases and their risk factors at various levels of geographies. He is currently working on a project regarding food security and obesity with systems science approaches. He is also involved in other research projects on infant mortality, rheumatic diseases, stress, and trauma.

Prior to his PhD training in the U.S., Peter was a staff journalist at Seoul Shinmun Daily, a major newspaper based in Seoul, South Korea, covering urban issues and policies.

Research Interests

  • Health/ Medical Geography

  • Geographic Information System (GIS)

  • Urban Economics

  • Systems Science

Courses

GEOG2152

Health and Medical Geography

6

credits

Annual; 2nd Semester

GEOG2153

Smartphones, K-pop, and Kimchi: South Korea beyond the Miracle

6

credits

Annual; 1st Semester

GEOG2157

Open-source GIS #

6

credits

Annual; 1st Semester

Selected Publications

  2023  

  • Lee, J., & Koh, K. (2023). Scheduling Complex Cyber-Physical Systems with Mixed-Criticality Components. Systems, 11(6), 281. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/11/6/281 
     

  • Loo, B. P. Y., Tsoi, K. H., Axhausen, K. W., Cao, M., Lee, Y., & Koh, K. P. (2023). Spatial risk for a superspreading environment: Insights from six urban facilities in six global cities across four continents. Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1128889 
     

  • Hur, H., & Koh, K. (2023). Why and Where Do Highly Educated Workers Relocate? A National-Level Analysis across US Census Regions. Sustainability, 15(2), 1423. 
     

  • Koh, K., Boulos, M. N. K., Zheng, G., Zhang, H., Iyyanki, M. V., Bwambale, B., & Dewan, A. (2023). A proof-of-concept online metadata catalogue service of Earth observation datasets for human health research in exposomics. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2311.08770. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.08770
     

  • Ng, K. Y., & Koh, K. (2023). Toward equitable public transportation with pets: Accessing veterinary care under mobility constraints in Hong Kong through taxi fare analysis. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2023.2295858

  2022  

  • Koh, K., Hyder, A., Karale, Y., & Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2022). Big Geospatial Data or Geospatial Big Data? A Systematic Narrative Review on the Use of Spatial Data Infrastructures for Big Geospatial Sensing Data in Public Health. Remote Sensing, 14(13). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14132996
     

  • Chui, S., Li, T., & Koh, K. (2022). Impact of Covid-19 on Food Environment in Hong Kong a Cross-sectional Qualitative Study. 
     

  • Koh, K., Lam, Y. F., & Hur, H. (2022). Lessons from COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in Hong Kong and South Korea. In Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreaks, Vaccination, Politics and Society (pp. 99-115). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09432-3_7
     

  • Koh, K., Lee, S., Park, S., & Lee, J. (2022). Media Reports on COVID-19 Vaccinations: A Study of Topic Modeling in South Korea. Vaccines, 10(12), 2166. 

  • Koh, K., Tang, K. C., Axhausen, K., & Loo, B. P. Y. (2022). A metropolitan-scale, three-dimensional agent-based model to assess the effectiveness of the COVID-19 Omicron wave interventions in a hyperdense city: a case study of Hong Kong. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 122, 534-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.06.042

  • Ng, K. Y., Ho, C. L., & Koh, K. (2022). Spatial-Temporal Accessibility and Inequality of Veterinary Service in Hong Kong: A Geographic Information System-Based Study. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, 857914-857914. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.857914

  2019  

  • Koh, K., Reno, R. and Hyder, A. (2019). "Examining Disparities in Food Accessibility among Households in Columbus, Ohio: An Agent-Based Model.” Food Security 11(2): 317-331. DOI: 10.1007/s12571-019-00900-7 (IF2018=2.153).

  2018  

  • Koh, K., Elder, T., Grady, S. C., Darden, J. and Vojnovic, I. (2018) “Explained and Unexplained Racial and Regional Inequality in Obesity Prevalence in the United States.” Ethnicity & Health 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2018.1442559 (IF2018=2.671).
     

  • Koh, K., Grady, S. C., Darden, J. and Vojnovic, I. (2018) “Adult Obesity Prevalence at the county level in the United States, 2000-2010: Downscaling Public Health Survey Data using a Spatial Microsimulation Approach.” Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 26: 153-164. DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2017.10.001
     

  • Koh, K., Grady, S. C., Vojnovic, I. and Darden, J. (2018) “Impacts of Federally Funded State Obesity Programs on Adult Obesity Prevalence in the United States, 1998-2010.” Public Health Reports 133(2): 169-176. DOI: 10.1177/0033354917751128 (IF2018=2.039).
     

  • Koh, K., Reno, R. and Hyder, A. (2018) “Designing an Agent-based Model using Group Model Building: Application to Food Insecurity Patterns in a U.S. Midwestern Metropolitan City.” Journal of Urban Health 95(2): 278-289. DOI: 10.1007/s11524-018-0230-1 (IF2018=2.154).

  2015  

  • Koh, K., Grady, S. C. and Vojnovic, I. (2015) “Using Simulated Data to Investigate the Spatial Patterns of Obesity Prevalence at the Census Tract Level in Metropolitan Detroit.” Applied Geography 62: 19-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.03.016 (IF2018=3.068).

​Research Grants

2015

National Science Foundation GROW Fellowship (University of Vienna, Austria)

2011-2015

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Awards

2017-2018

National Science Foundation GROW Fellowship (University of Vienna, Austria)

2014-2017

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2017

UCLA Geography Department Best Graduate Student Paper, Nature-Society Category

2017

American Association of Geographers (AAG) Eurasian Specialty Group Student Paper Competition – Honorary Mention

2017

AAG Dissertation Grant

2014-2017

UCLA Charles F. Scott Fellowship

2016

AAG Asian Specialty Group Best Graduate Student Paper Award

2013

UCLA Dean’s Scholar Award

2013

UCLA Departmental Fellowship

2013

Graduate Tutors Prize for Distinction in MPhil, Fitzwilliam College

2012-2013

Gates Cambridge Fellow 

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