Community Health Maps: Using Mapping Tools during Disasters

The Center for Public Service Communications and its partner Bird’s Eye View, together with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), have developed the Community Health Maps (CHM) initiative. CHM’s premise is that community-based organizations, environmental health groups, public health agencies, and emergency management departments are in a better position to serve their populations when they are able to collect and maintain their own data, rather than relying solely on national or state agencies, or majority-institution partners to provide data to them. CHM has dedicated a number of resources and trainings to train students, teachers, community members, and researchers to empower and utilize these resources. This webinar will provide an overview of the tools on the CHM blog, and give an idea on how attendees can begin utilizing these tools during disaster response. This Disaster Information Specialist webinar is free and open to everyone – please share broadly! When: October 12, 2017, 1:30 PM ET Speakers: John Scott is the President of Center for Public Service Communications. John provides guidance and expertise to individuals, communities and public sector organizations in the area of telecommunications and information technologies in order to improve the collection and sharing of scientific, technical and community knowledge. Kurt Menke is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) who has been working with public health applications of GIS for the last 15 years. Kurt ...
Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Disaster / Emergency Preparedness Education Source Type: news