HPD 634 - Applications GIS & Remote Sense Climate & Health

This course is an introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and their applications for climate and public health studies. Classwork will be presented in the form of health-related case studies based on research topics pertinent to students, where GIS is used to formulate and address scientific hypotheses. Specifically, ArcGIS software will be presented as a tool for integrating, manipulating, and visualizing health, climate and environment data. Topics include understanding spatial data, mapping, topology, spatial manipulations related to data structures, online data, geocoding, remote sensing imagery, and mobile technology. The course will emphasize how to prepare spatial data for a formal statistical analysis, which will be discussed at an introductory level for geostatistical, point pattern, and area-level data examples. Students should leave this course with knowledge to acquire spatial data, visualize geographic trends, and formulate scientific hypothesis for epidemiological, environmental health applications. In addition, HPD 634 includes advanced spatial analytics and the application of spatial analytics in public health.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Program in Population Health and Clinical Outcomes Research

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)