Links to Online Courses

Researchers new to GIS may benefit from these online training and educational materials.

• What is GIS? - an overview of GIS with links to more detail, by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI).
  
  
• Free Training at ESRI Virtual Campus - free training modules and workshops; many more classes offered for a fee.
  
  
• Data's Spatial Dimension: A Symposium on Uses of Spatial Data Analysis and Geographic Information Technologies for Health and Human Services Policy and Planning - includes speakers' slides.
  
  
• GIS Education - lists of online training and educational material.
  
  
• Guidelines For Using Rural-Urban Classification Systems for Public Health Assessment - from the Washington State Dept of Health.
  
  
• Improving Public Health Through Geographical Information Systems: An Instructional Guide to Major Concepts and Their Implementation - by Gerald Rushton.
  
  
• Mathematics of Cartography - an introduction to the mathematics used in mapmaking, by Cynthia Lanius.
  
  
• GIS in Public Health: Using Mapping and Spatial Analysis Technologies for Health Protections - archive of May 11, 2000 cybercast from the Public Health Training Network at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).