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Summer Institute for Public Health Practice 2008
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
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“I appreciated that the course was extremely hands-on. This allowed the students to gain actual experience with the program.”
—participant, 2007
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) teaches participants how to use ArcGIS 9.2 for public health investigations and prepares them to make thematic maps, use multiple layers, geocode, and use buffers, overlays, and satellite data. A self-paced workbook will be provided. Participants may bring their own geo-referenced data.
Objectives
- Learn how to use GIS to aid in surveillance, emergency preparedness and response, disease cluster detection, and exploratory spatial analysis.
- Learn how to use GIS to do community public health assessment.
- Learn how to use maps to communicate to policy makers and the public.
- List 3-5 concepts used in GIS that could influence responses to global climate change, new built environments, and communicable disease issues and describe the possible nature of those effects.