| Title: |
Public Health GIS in the Northeast |
| Authors: |
Pete Young; Pegs Gibson; Jason Roberts; Jennifer Kachajian; Janet Horne; Steve Sawyer; Braden Miller |
| Date/Time |
Tuesday, November 6 ~ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
| Abstract: |
Public Health GIS activity is rapidly expanding in the Northeast. State Health Departments, along with a variety of health-related organizations, are making increased use of GIS technology to improve public health analysis and planning and to increase public health emergency response capabilities. A panel of staff and consultants from Northeast state health departments will present an overview of public health GIS in the region along with a variety of current examples, including:
- Syndromic Surveillance GIS
- Geocoding and service accessibility analysis using Cancer Registry data
- Pediatric lead risk screening
- Environmental health assessment and analysis
- Emergency planning and response - data development/data collection and deployable base maps
- Health surveillance analysis and reporting - west nile virus; lyme disease; rabies
- Metadata and the ESRI Portal Toolkit
- Application development -EDN for 'Historic' Health Databases
Time will also be allotted at the end of the presentation for questions and for a general discussion of public health GIS in the Northeast. |
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