Dr. Jaclyn M. Hall received a BA in Geography from Stetson University in 1996. After serving for the Peace Corps in Tanzania, she received an MA in Geography from the University of South Florida in 2002. She received a PhD from the University of Florida in 2009. Currently, she is a Research Scientist at the University of Florida College of Medicine and the Executive Director of the Florida Research Data Center. Due to her diverse background in spatial technologies and experience with environmental data, she contributes to various community health and health policy-related research, both in geographic analyses and geographic data management. Her research provides insight into the rurality and other spatial trends of patient data that are vital to several initiatives of the UF Cancer Center, Clinical and Translational ciences Institute, several large Medicaid Managed Care evaluation projects, and multiple studies using data from the OneFlorida Clinical Data Research Network. Her contributions include working with researchers on study design, managing the process of geocoding (generating spatial locations from written address data) multiple large data sources, analyses of health care network adequacy, hotspot identification, cluster analyses, and creation of new spatial data sets. Her research interests include geography spatial analysis, remote sensing, geographic information systems, health, and medical geography.