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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

GIS Fundamentals for Public Health Research

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai via Coursera

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are transforming public health research, environmental health, epidemiology, and healthcare decision-making. This course offers a practical introduction to GIS, geoinformatics, and spatial analysis, showing how location-based data can be used to investigate health outcomes, environmental exposures, and population-level trends.

Syllabus

  • GIS Foundations for Health Professionals
  • Introduction to Rasters
  • Introduction to vectors

Taught by

Itai Kloog

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