This Urban Health Collaborative research seminar will feature Hannah Lawman, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention, Get Healthy Philly, Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Dr. Lawman's work emphasizes multi-sectoral and population health approaches including changes to the built environment and policy approaches to chronic disease prevention, such as improving nutrition, physical activity, and access to smoke-free spaces.

Spatial Analysis with ArcGIS, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the final hands-on training introducing participants to ArcGIS tools that can be used to create spatial variables for public health research.

ArcGIS: Getting Data into Maps is the second in a three-part series of ArcGIS trainings designed to teach participants how to get tabular data containing latitudes and longitudes, street addresses, or other place names, into a format that can be used to create maps with ArcGIS. The training will also demonstrate how to link tabular data to existing spatial datasets.

The Urban Health Collaborative is proud to present Jason Corburn, PhD, MCP. His talk is entitled “Cities for Life: Transforming Urban Institution for Health Equity.” Dr. Corburn is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, jointly appointed in the Department of City & Regional Planning and the School of Public Health. He directs Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development, the joint Master of City Planning (MCP) and Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program and leads the Center for Global Healthy Cities.

Getting Started with ArcGIS is the first in a three-part series of hands-on trainings designed to teach new users how to create basic maps using ArcGIS software and explore spatial data for Philadelphia.

Presented by UHC Pilot Funding Awardees Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH, and Rachel Peters, MPH, DrPHc, this research seminar series provides opportunities to learn about new areas in urban health research and explores ways research can impact practice and policy in urban settings.

Presented by UHC Pilot Funding Awardees: Longjian Liu, MD, PhD, MSc, FAHA, Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH, and Rachel Peters, MPH

Drexel GIS Users Group presents Neville Vakharia, Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, who will talk about using WebGIS tools to map community assets. The MuseumStat tool he developed helps connect museums to communities.