Kurt, This is great work that you are doing and thank you for sharing this . 

I am sure there are thousands of excellent examples like these in our OSGeo 
community which we need to highlight to the wider world to build more ideas and 
collaborations. Our "Geo for All" newsletters will reach thousands of readers 
and it will make sure more collaborations are build.

So i request everyone to send their examples (from Government, Industry, SME, 
Startups, NGOs etc) to the lists or directly to Nikos ( email 
-labri...@eled.auth.gr ) and we will aim to get these examples published in our 
monthly newsletters as regular feature. So it will good to have lot of examples 
so we can get them published one by one.

Best wishes,

Suchith


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Kurt is a GeoAcademy SME and faculty.  :)

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That's awesome Kurt! When ready, consider posting a link to the material on our 
metadata search database. [1,2]

Cheers, Charlie

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/education

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Kurt Menke 
<k...@birdseyeviewgis.com<mailto:k...@birdseyeviewgis.com>> wrote:
For the last several years I have been working with the National Library of 
Medicine to document and teach a minority public health mapping workflow. The 
idea is that minority public health organizations have limited staff and 
budgets, but have mapping needs. What we came up with is designed for public 
health professionals, people who don’t have the time to be full time GIS 
specialists. So we’ve outlined and taught a workflow from A) field mapping with 
smart phones/tablets, B) bringing the data into QGIS to combine with other 
datasets to tell a story/analysis, and C) dissemination over the web via 
CartoDB or GIS Cloud. This link is the project synopsis:  
http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/about/  The basic goal is to empower 
minority communities by teaching them to collect and work with their own data, 
versus what is sent to them by the CDC.

As part of this, I’ve been authoring a blog Community Health Mapping 
http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/ . The blog is written at a layperson 
level of technical detail and serves to keep the workflow current with rapidly 
developing technology. It also is forum for case studies and new advances in 
community health mapping tools. There are several case studies written by guest 
bloggers. One of these was written by several high schools students in a poor 
island near Charleston, SC, who I trained to map their neighborhood in an 
afternoon. 
http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/2015/02/11/community-health-maps-conducts-a-training-in-the-south-carolina-lowcountry/
   They were really excited to be able to use their phones to do this work!

I have also developed a public health mapping course with six labs, built in 
the same style as the GeoAcademy courses. It essentially takes a student 
through the workflow. The labs are in beta at the moment but will be freely 
available once completed.

To date we’ve trained public health professionals in Charleston, SC, Seattle, 
WA, Honolulu, HI, and Tuskeegee, MI. It has been very successful and a lot of 
fun. This work has been presented at several FOSS4G meetings in past years.
Cheers,
Kurt

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