GIS for Public Health
Many aspects of public health are connected to geographic or spatial factors, requiring geographic information systems (GIS) to help in analyzing and visualizing these spatial relationships. Ideal for community and urban planning professionals, public health data analysts and epidemiologists, this online course will expand learners’ existing data management, analytical and communication skills with spatial data. Gain practical, hands-on experience through pre-recorded and live lectures, live lab sessions and assignments where you’ll work through a variety of troubleshooting exercises. By the end of this course, you’ll understand the background of GIS in public health, and gain the practical skills to process, summarize, analyze and present GIS public health data in Esri ArcGIS suite and the R programming language.
Learning Outcomes
- Import, evaluate and wrangle spatial data
- Perform exploratory data analysis to understand spatial data
- Transform spatial data to the appropriate formats/extents and understand potential limitations/biases to present data
- Analyze and operationalize spatial data to create covariates for epidemiologic analysis
Skills You’ll Gain
- Experience using Esri ArcGIS suite and the R programming language
- Spatial data creation from non-spatial data sources
- Transformation of point-process data to raster data, and vice versa
- Reprojection of data in different coordinate reference systems
Section Notes
This is an online, remote learning course, which consists of 13 hours of content and curriculum that is taught with pre-recorded and (live) lectures, as well as at least one mandatory live lecture/Q&A session(s) with the instructors. Pre-recorded lectures and live sessions are accessed via our Canvas learning system and Zoom. This course is the same length as a standard 2 day, in-person course, please be sure to plan your schedule accordingly.
This course is open March 18 – March 22, 2024 with live sessions on March 18, March 20 and March 22, 2:00-4:00PM PST.
Attendance of the live sessions is mandatory to receive credit for this course.
Please enroll before March 11, 2024 in order for students to secure their UC Davis computing accounts and access to CPE's virtual workspaces. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Refund Deadline: March 11, 2024. Refunds and/or enrollment transfers will not be approved after this date.
Enrollment Policies
Drop requests (withdraw with a refund) will be approved, less a $30 processing fee, if the request is received seven calendar days before the course begins. Click here to view complete enrollment policy information including details on withdrawals and transfers.
Refund Deadline: March 11, 2024. Refunds and/or enrollment transfers will not be approved after this date.
Discounts
APA
APA
AEP
AEP
Members can receive 10% discount on the course fee by entering the Coupon Code. If you don’t have your association discount code, contact UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education Student Services at (800) 752-0881.