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GIS in Health Training

Category: GIS and Information Technology Training

Overview

The Expedition

About the Program

GIS in Health Training equips participants with essential skills to use geographic data and tools for better health decision-making. This course helps you analyze spatial patterns of health risks and disease rates, integrate diverse data types, and collaborate with technical experts to create effective geographic products tailored to health programs. Whether you are a public health professional or data analyst, this training prepares you to apply spatial analysis techniques that support improved health outcomes. Available both online and in-person, participants will earn certification upon successful completion.

Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

Understand how geographic data and GIS tools support health decision-making
Collaborate effectively with technical experts to create health-focused geographic products
Analyze spatial patterns of health risks and disease incidence
Combine and work with both spatial and non-spatial health data
Perform spatial analysis to investigate the relationship between environment and health

Target Audience

Training Period

Classroom: 5 Days
Online: 7 Days

Modules

Module I:Introduction

Dr. John Snow example
Mapping and evidence based decision
National spatial data infrastructure
Strategic role of geography in health
Spatial data concepts
Process for using geographic data and tools

Module 2: Mobile based data collection for health applications

Using Mobile Phones for GIS data collection
Importing spatial data to Quantum GIS
Using data from databases database management

Module 3: GIS in health applications

GIS concepts
Geo Data sources for HIV/AIDS and other health related issues
Spatial data concepts
capabilities of GIS
GIS for health applications
QGIS interface and map basics

Module 4: Working with tabular data

Create new health-care map layers using internal and local data
Spatially join and aggregate point data to create choropleth maps
Working with spreadsheets data in GIS
Building and coding the new variables

Module 5: GIS analysis and mapping techniques

Prepare incidence and prevalence maps
Investigate spatial patterns of uninsured and poor populations
Import and project map layers for a local analysis
Project maps for health-data analysis at different geographic scales
Adding feature to GIS data
Reducing GIS data from large coverage to an area of interest
Techniques of overlying GIS data
Extracting subsets of GIS data for mapping

Module 6: Designing maps for a health study

Design and build numeric scales for mapping attributes
Symbolize numeric scales for polygons using color ramps
Symbolize numeric scales for points using size-graduated point markers
Map the relationship of two variables
Build professional map’ layouts for presentations and reports
GIS mapping of most at risk populations (MARPS)
GIS Mapping of health facilities and health resources

Module 7: Case study: Studying disease outbreaks

Delivery Method

This program is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group work and case studies. Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.