This is my personal umbrella repository — a map of my career arc and a guide to where my work is headed. It highlights the projects, methods, and contexts that have shaped my research.

Much of my current team-based research now happens within the Parker Group organization, which I founded in 2017. That hub catalogs and maintains our group’s shared tools and datasets. This repo, by contrast, centers on my own trajectory and motivations.

Early work combining field research, geography (especially geographic reconnaissance), anthropology (ethnography and participant observation), and spatial analyses to understand health and disease in complex settings.

Incorporating Earth Observation, human movement studies, and spatiotemporal methods to address new public health questions.

• activity-spaces — Multi-place exposure and its relevance for health.
• Earth Observation How-To — Linking Earth observation data to places and times.
• SDEtool — R tool for standard deviational ellipses.

Working across epidemiology, vector-borne disease control, climate, and health systems — often in borderland and displacement contexts.

• METF-mapping — GIS and community engagement for malaria post placement.
• tMDA-program — Targeted mass drug administration trials and modeling.
• early-dx-tx — Early access to malaria diagnosis and treatment.
• tm-border-mch — Maternal and child health research on the Thailand–Myanmar border.

Today, most of my active and upcoming work continues through the Parker Group, where we build open methods and datasets. See the Public Overview for a complete, living catalog.

Increasingly, this work focuses on understanding health within complex socio-environmental systems — particularly in marginal settings shaped by mobility, environmental change and constraint, conflict, and political marginality.

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flowchart TB
  subgraph A[Foundations]
    direction LR
    EDT["early-dx-tx"]
    tMDA["tMDA-program"]
    MCH["tm-border-mch"]
    METF["METF-mapping"]
  end

  subgraph B[Expanding Areas]
    direction LR
    EO["Earth Observation Hub"]
    VBD["Vector-Borne Disease Ecology"]
    HOWTO["Earth Observation How-To"]
    SDE["SDEtool"]
    AS["activity-spaces"]
  end

  subgraph C[Umbrella]
    RT["Research Trajectory Hub"]
  end

  subgraph D[Current & Future]
    PG["Parker Group (org)\n— founded 2017 —"]:::pg
  end

  %% Umbrella links
  RT --> EDT
  RT --> tMDA
  RT --> MCH
  RT --> METF
  RT --> EO
  RT --> VBD
  RT --> HOWTO
  RT --> SDE
  RT --> AS
  RT --> PG

  %% Method and thematic interplay
  EO --- HOWTO
  EO --- SDE
  EO --- AS
  EO --- VBD
  HOWTO --- SDE
  HOWTO --- AS
  VBD --- AS

  %% Convergence to Parker Group
  EO --> PG
  HOWTO --> PG
  SDE --> PG
  AS --> PG
  METF --> PG
  tMDA --> PG
  EDT --> PG
  MCH --> PG
  VBD --> PG

  %% Clickable links
  click RT "https://github.com/DMParker1/research-trajectory-hub" "Research Trajectory Hub"
  click EDT "https://github.com/DMParker1/early-dx-tx" "early-dx-tx repository"
  click tMDA "https://github.com/DMParker1/tmda-program" "tMDA-program repository"
  click MCH "https://github.com/DMParker1/tm-border-mch" "tm-border-mch repository"
  click METF "https://github.com/DMParker1/METF-mapping" "METF-mapping repository"
  click EO "https://github.com/DMParker1/earth-observation-hub" "Earth Observation Hub"
  click VBD "https://github.com/DMParker1/vector-borne-disease-ecology" "Vector-Borne Disease Ecology"
  click HOWTO "https://github.com/parker-group/earth-observation-howto" "EO How-To Guides"
  click SDE "https://github.com/parker-group/SDEtool" "SDEtool package"
  click AS "https://github.com/DMParker1/activity-spaces" "activity-spaces repository"
  click PG "https://github.com/parker-group" "Parker Group organization"

  %% Highlight Parker Group node
  classDef pg fill:#E0F2FE,stroke:#1D4ED8,stroke-width:3px;

Solid lines show the current structure. The timeline below captures sequence and method usage. The highlighted node marks the group I founded in 2017.

A collected index of the repositories linked to my career arc.

• earth-observation-howto
• SDEtool

• vector-borne-disease-ecology — Research on the ecological systems linking vectors, environments, and human exposure.
• earth-observation-hub — How EO became central to my research.
• activity-spaces — Multi-place exposure and health relevance.
• METF-mapping — Mapping malaria posts & community engagement.
• tMDA-program — Targeted MDA trials & modeling.
• early-dx-tx — Early access to malaria diagnosis/treatment.
• tm-border-mch — Maternal & child health on the Thai–Myanmar border.

Most ongoing work is now organized under the Parker Group.

_{© Daniel M. Parker — See individual repositories for license details.}