ECTS: 2.6
Course leader: Jörg Schullehner
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Status: Course is finished
Semester: Fall 2020
Application deadline: 20/10/2020
Cancellation deadline: 26/10/2020
Start date: 09/11/2020
Administrator: Johanne Gregor Nielsen
Title: GIS in Health Sciences
Reg.no: P272/03
is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, fall 2020
Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).
Aim:
• Provide theoretical background of spatial data and analyses
• Introduce participants to open-source GIS software (QGIS)
• Give participants hands-on experience in spatial analyses with focus on health-related exercises
Learning outcomes: Upon completion, the student will be able to:
• Describe the basic concepts of GIS
• Identify the different types of spatial data
• Retrieve spatial data from open sources and own surveys and load them into a GIS program
• Design and apply simple spatial analyses and evaluate their results
• Present spatial data in appropriate maps
Content: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for handling and analyzing geo-related data are becoming increasingly important in the health sciences. Applications include, amongst others, exposure estimations in epidemiological studies, planning and management of emergency medical services, and tools for public health decision-makers. Participants will get an introduction into the theoretical background and hands-on experience of spatial data management and spatial analyses focusing on public health related exercises.
Theoretical background
• What is GIS and spatial data?
• Coordinate systems and projections
• Types of spatial data
• Sources of spatial data
• Spatial analyses
Hands-on experience (computer lab) with excerice-datasets, georeferencing, spatial analyses
Important: participants can bring their own laptop or use the computers in the computer lab. Please install the latest version of QGIS on your machine before the course starts. If you run into technical problems, we will assist you on the first day. Get QGIS here: www.qgis.org.
Language: English
ECTS: 2.6
Head of course: Jörg Schullehner
Instructors:
Jörg Schullehner, postdoc, AU, Department of Public Health & Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland;
Torben Sigsgaard, Professor, Department of Public Health
Number of participants: 15
Dates and times: 9-11 November 2020
Place: IT-lokalet (1266-122), The Victor Albeck Building, Vennelyst Blvd 4, 8000 Aarhus C
Course fee: DKK 3120
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Research Year students and Research Honours Programme students from Aarhus University
- PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
- PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses
Application deadline: 12 October 2020
Application: https://service.health.au.dk/modules/Course/mypage/coursecalendar.
Course dates:
- 09 November 2020
- 10 November 2020
- 11 November 2020