2024 Summer PBHLTH 167 001 LEC 001

2024 Summer Session C 8 weeks, June 17 - August 9

PBHLTH 167 001 - LEC 001

Formerly Public Health 177

Applied GIS for Public Health

Charlotte Smith

Jun 17, 2024 - Aug 09, 2024
12:00 am
Internet/Online
Class #:15715
Units:3

Instruction Mode: Online

Offered through School of Public Health

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 7
Enrolled: 63
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 70
Waitlist Max: 25
No Reserved Seats

Course Catalog Description

Course is to familiarize students with principles, methods, & techniques necessary to apply GIS in public health settings. Weekly readings, discussions, case studies are presented to introduce application of GIS technologies; maps for visualizing clusters, mobile phone-Apps for data collection, & spatial analyses such as proximity analysis or site suitability. Course includes assignments aimed & acquiring experience on the use of GIS for infectious disease control, disease cluster detection, environmental justice, health services data mapping, & spatial risk assessment. Culminating project: Story Map where students use maps they’ve created as well as additional narrative text images & optional videos for community health education or policy

Class Notes

Class will be online, asynchronous.

This course is part of the Global Public Health Summer Minor; however you do not have to be pursuing the minor to enroll in the course.

Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions

Students will receive no credit for PB HLTH 167 after completing PB HLTH W267. A deficient grade in PB HLTH 167 may be removed by taking PB HLTH W267.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Reserved Seats

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

Associated Sections

None