**About the Editor**

**Fazlay S. Faruque** is a Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), USA. He joined UMMC in 2000 as the founding Director of GIS and Remote Sensing program. For the last thirty years, Dr. Faruque has been teaching and conducting research in the area of environmental health, utilizing a variety of geospatial technologies. As a principal investigator, he has managed extramural grants, including projects from NIH and NASA. His research projects are mainly within the areas of environmental health and the application of spatial methods in epidemiological and healthcare delivery-related studies. Since 2012, he has been serving as the Chair of the ISPRS Working Group on Environment and Health. Through his academic training, Dr. Faruque is a geological engineer.
