Last year Community Health Maps was invited to present at the Association for Prevention and Teaching Research (APTR) Conference in Albuquerque, NM. We brought two students from the University of Washington Department of Community Oriented Public Health, and two students from the Medical University of South Carolina, to present their capstone project posters.[gallery ids="290,292" type="rectangular"]
Myself, John Scott, Dr. Williamson and Dana Burshell also combined to create a CHM panel. The panel discussion session was packed and to our collective surprise we heard "oohs" and "ahhs" as we showed some of the mapping tools live. We were approached by some of the organizers about teaching a workshop the following year.
That brings us to this years conference in Savannah Georgia. We will again have a panel session which will both provide an overview of the project, and highlight recent successes. The panel will be on Thursday April 6th at 3pm.On Friday morning we will teach a 4 hour CHM workshop. This is a hands-on training session where you will learn how to incorporate the Community Health Mapping (CHM) workflow into your research and training programs. You will:
- Learn how to use Fulcrum to create a data collection form
- Go outside with your smartphone/tablet to collect some data around the conference center
- Map the collected data in Carto
- Work with the data in QGIS
We hope to see you there!