GIS SPECIALIZED/CUSTOM COURSES (ARCGIS & QGIS)
GIS SPECIALIZED/CUSTOM COURSES (ARCGIS & QGIS)
- GIS for Epidemiology and Public Health
- GIS for Monitoring and Evaluation Using QGIS
- GIS for Urban and Regional Planning Solutions Using ArcGIS
- GIS for Crime Mapping and Public Safety
- GIS for Natural Resources and Environmental Management
- GIS for Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Using QGIS
GIS for Epidemiology and Public Health
In many spheres of human achievements technology has played a vital role by giving us powerful tools for interrogating our world, interpreting what we find and presenting that information. In this digital era GIS once an expensive and specialist skill, has become cheap and more accessible to many people and countries due to falling hardware costs and the availability of high-quality free satellite data and software. In this Course the participants will learn how to apply GIS in public health and epidemiological research. They will learn how to work with spatial and non-spatial data, how to visualize it and map it. The training will equip them with skill and tools for assessing Most at Risk Populations (MARPS) exposure to a range of environmental risks, and methodologies for spatial epidemiological or health risk assessment studies.
Target Participants
Public health practitioners, epidemiologists, exposure scientists, quantitative health geographers, risk assessors, students.
Summary of Course Outline
Module I
- Introduction to Medical Geography (Dr. John Snow example)
- Introduction to QGIS and health-related QGIS plugins
- 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
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
GIS in health applications
- GIS concepts
- GIS 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
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
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
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
Case study: Studying disease outbreaks
Training Approach
This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.
Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.
Certification
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued with a certificate of completion.
Duration
5 days
Tailor-Made Course
We can also do this as tailor-made course to meet organization-wide needs. Contact us to find out more: training@gisng.com
Training Venue
The training will be held at Geographic Integrated Services Ltd Training Hall, 26, Oduyemi Street, Anifowoshe, Off Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria 100261
Training Fee
The training fee is N185,000.00 and covers tuition fees, learning materials, and lunch.