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Organization: KIT Royal Tropical Institute
Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam
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Training/Workshop
Closing Date: 2025-01-24
The explosive availability of open source health data offers new opportunities to analyze and monitor trends in disease. It also opens new pathways to assess how effectively health systems can address these trends. Epidemiologists, health professionals and policymakers increasingly utilize new analytical techniques and software to process and analyze the growing volumes of high resolution health data.
This course aims to provide health professionals with a solid understanding and hands-on practice allowing them to use GIS in their daily work. The increasing use of open source software solutions in professional settings provides a free, yet perfectly viable alternative to commercial software. This course uses Free and Open Source Software solutions to allow course participants to bring their skills into practice without depending on commercial packages.
Objectives
At the end of the course the participants will be able to:
- Explain the relation between health and geography and the role of GIS to analyse these relations
- Operate a GIS (QGIS) and apply basic cartographic techniques to visualize health data
- Create and interpret thematic health maps
- Describe spatial patterns of health indicators and epidemiological data
- Apply QGIS software and geo-processing methods for the planning and evaluation of performance and coverage of disease control programs
- Identify requirements for successful implementation of GIS tools in public health
For more information on this course go to: https://www.kit.nl/institute/programme/using-gis-for-global-health/
This course is tropEd accredited and can be followed as a stand-alone course or as specialisation course of the Master in Public Health and Health Equity programme.
Fee information
Regular course fee EUR 1.980
We offer a range of discounts for early bird applicants, alumni, tropEd students and groups. See below the discounts and fees for the course. See for more information about our discounts for groups and other short courses on our exclusive discount page: https://www.kit.nl/study/exclusive-discounts-for-our-study-programmes/
This fee covers the course fee and study material. It does not include any other costs like travel costs, insurance, visa, accommodation, daily expenses, etc.
How to register
Application procedure
The complete application is due 2 months before the start of the course.
Please upload your application online via KIT Online Application System by clicking on the ‘Apply now’ button on the KIT website, or login with your existing account via: https://application.kit.nl
The following documents should be uploaded:
- A one-page letter of motivation
- Copies of your diplomas
- Copies of your academic transcripts (grade reports)
- An up-to-date curriculum vitae and a list of publications if applicable
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