Ben White, MPH is a Senior Technical Consultant within the Health and Public Safety Department at Esri Professional Services. He has been with Esri since 2021 where he helps design and implement geospatial health strategies for health and public safety customers at the federal, state, and local levels. As a GIS Engineer at Medici Land Governance, he sought to improve social determinants of health by conducting large-scale UAV survey mapping for blockchain fit-for-purpose systematic land titling to ensure land rights in Zambia, Mexico, Liberia, and St. Kitts. As a foodborne, waterborne, and emerging infections epidemiologist at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment he helped investigate local, regional, and national outbreaks of infectious disease and participated in the FoodNet Geospatial Working Group. Mr. White used spatial statistical modeling to investigate clusters of Legionellosis, Pertussis, Campylobacter, and zoonoses. As a GIS Health Analyst at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, he helped modernize Colorado’s Substance Use Disorder Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) classifications to distribute $2 million in grant funds to areas in need. He also helped validate CDPHE’s small area estimation Community Level Estimates initiative and designed a statewide county health index to identify priority counties for distribution of $14 million in health program funding to support cancer, cardiovascular, and pulmonary disease intervention programs.