Geographic Information Systems for Global Health Students

Date: 

Thursday, February 21, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

641 Huntington Ave., Boston

Learning objectives of this workshop for students in the Mixed Methods for Global Health Research (GH 706) class are:

  • Learning some basic terminology of GIS.
  • Learning the file structure for GIS files.
  • Creating a map of a country or region of the world using QGIS.
  • Learning how to add layers to the map such as roads, cities, rivers, and administrative borders.
  • Learning how to link to an existing georeferenced data set using a Demographic and Health Services (DHS) data set.

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