Kieran Petrasek is the Health Geography Lead for Esri Canada’s Public Health Program. He examines and curates the geospatial data needed to better understand public health issues. Kieran strives to deliver solutions to complex problems using geospatial data and accelerate the adoption of GIS as a tool to solve public health problems in our increasingly digital world. He has worked with organizations across four continents in international public health, defence and security to implement solutions to that improve their capacity to detect, assess and respond to disease outbreaks.