Introduction to Health Geography: Mapping how Place and Power Determine our Health

Harvard HSPH

This course introduces fundamentals of mapping and spatial reasoning in public health research. Surveying its history, we will find that spatial thinking and maps have played a critical role both inside the academy, for communities organizing for environmental justice, and social movements that agitated for a healthier world. To develop the skills to make and reason about our own maps, we will introduce basic data structures and analytic tools needed to build, visualize, and analyze maps of a…