Geographic Approaches to Global Health

This course covers topics such as:

• The basics of spatial data and its role in decision making
• Why geographic data and tools are important for decision makers
• Geography as a unifying framework and GIS as a tool to collect, link, analyze, visualize, manage, and share data and information
• The challenges and opportunities of working with spatial data to produce geographic information and geographically based knowledge
• Popular tools used to collect, analyze, and manipulate geographic data