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Health Mapping Workshop

I posted the syllabus for my upcoming Public Health Informatics II course: Health Mapping in a Digital Age. This workshop is for students in the NYU Master’s Program in Global Public Health.

This one-day workshop is designed to give students an overview of current trends in health mapping; knowledge of state-of-the-art tools, methods, and [...]

We need maps!

Peter Baker reports on the Administration’s decision-making process for the troop surge in Afghanistan in the excellent NY Times article, “How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan.” Nothing settles a disagreement like a good ole fashioned map-off.

After a meeting where the Pentagon made a presentation with impressive color-coded maps, Mrs. Clinton [...]

Happy GIS Day

Kirkuk City/Iraq GIS Day Celebration. Source: Nashwa Hameed, via gisday.com

Today is the 10th annual GIS Day, part of Geography Awareness Week.

2008 is also the International Year of Planet Earth.

And in case you were wondering, we are starting the (Second) United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty.

Spying on Cholera

Vibrio cholerae bacteria. Source: Kirn et al. (2000).

From Science Daily:

Cholera outbreaks may soon be predicted using satellite sensors, paving the way for preemptive medicine in countries that suffer epidemics…

 
Speaking at a meeting of the Society for General Microbiology, Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation, describes how satellite sensors can be used [...]