Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Call for Papers: ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoHealth 2026

GeoHealth’26 will serve as an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working at the nexus of geospatial computing and public health. The workshop welcomes contributions that address spatial and spatiotemporal aspects of health behaviors, outcomes, exposures, systems, and interventions using methods from spatial databases, GIScience, geoinformatics, spatial data mining, machine learning, and computational modeling. We particularly encourage submissions that introduce novel geospatial methodologies, leverage emerging or nontraditional data sources, or present innovative applications with clear implications for public health policy and practice.

Both full papers (8–10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) are welcome, provided they have not been previously published and are not under concurrent review. All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop in person.

GeoHealth 2026 solicits novel and previously unpublished research on all topics related to geospatial health including, but not limited to:

  • Geospatial Analytics for Infectious Disease Surveillance
  • Environmental Exposure Mapping (e.g., air quality, water, toxins)
  • Modeling Health Impacts of Climate Change
  • GIS for Health Equity and Access
  • Spatial Decision Support Systems for Health Resource Allocation
  • Urban Health and Built Environment Analysis
  • Chronic Disease Mapping and Risk Factor Modeling
  • Human Mobility and Public Health Interventions
  • Integration of Remote Sensing and Health Data
  • Real-time Outbreak Detection and Monitoring
  • Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) in Health
  • Privacy-aware Health Data Integration
  • Social Determinants of Health and Spatial Inequality
  • Data Fusion from Wearables, EHRs, and Census Data
  • Health Communication via Spatial Dashboards and Visualizations
  • Spatial Epidemiology and Spatiotemporal Modeling

Important Date

Submission deadline

August 15, 2026

Notification

September 15, 2026

Workshop date

November 3, 2026

Submission site

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geohealth26

Workshop website

https://onspatial.github.io/geo-health-2026/

Paper Format

Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. For latex users, please make sure that you choose sigconf type (e.g., \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}) in your latex file. Submissions to GeoHealth are single-blind – i.e., the names and affiliations of the authors should be listed in the submitted version.

Contact

Please contact me or geohealth26@easychair.org if you have questions about GeoHealth 2026.

Call for Papers: ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoSim 2026

The 9th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim 2026) focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily coming from the SIGSPATIAL community, are encouraged to participate. Also, this workshop is of interest to everyone who works with spatial data. The simulation methods that will be presented and discussed in the workshop should find a wide application across the community by producing benchmark datasets that can be parameterized and scaled. Simulated data sets will be made available to the community via the website.

The workshop seeks high-quality full (up to 10 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) papers that will be peer-reviewed. Following the main conference, full papers are limited to 10 pages (excluding references), with up to 2 additional pages after the references to be used for appendices. Once accepted, at least one author is required to register for the workshop and the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference, as well as attend the workshop to present the accepted work which will then appear in the ACM Digital Library.

GeoSim 2026 solicits novel and previously unpublished research on all topics related to geospatial simulation including, but not limited to:

  • Applications for Spatial Simulation
  • Agent Based Models for Spatial Simulation
  • Multi-Agent Based Spatial Simulation
  • Big Spatial Data Simulation
  • Disease Spread Simulation
  • Spatial Data/Trajectory Generators
  • Road Traffic Simulation
  • Human Mobility Simulation
  • Environmental Simulation
  • GIS using Spatial Simulation
  • Interactive Spatial Simulation
  • Spatial Simulation Parallelization and Distribution
  • Geo-Social Simulation and Data Generators
  • Social Unrest and Riot Prediction using Simulation
  • Spatial Analysis based on Simulation
  • Behavioral Simulation
  • Verifying and Validating Spatial Simulations
  • Urban Simulation
  • Digital Twin Simulation
  • Synthetic Population Simulation

Important Date

Submission deadline

August 15, 2026

Notification

September 15, 2026

Workshop date

November 3, 2026

Submission site

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geosim2026

Workshop website

https://geosim.org/

Paper Format

Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. For latex users, please make sure that you choose sigconf type (e.g., \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}) in your latex file. Submissions to GeoSim are single-blind – i.e., the names and affiliations of the authors should be listed in the submitted version.

Contact

Please contact geosim2026@easychair.org if you have questions about GeoSim 2026.