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GeoAI for Climate, Environment & Health
Free · Self-paced · Open to everyone
A hands-on introduction to spatial health data, Earth observation grids, and AI-powered database queries. Work through six Jupyter notebooks — from geocoded health records to satellite exposure extraction to a natural-language GeoAI interface over an environmental database.
Python
Spatial Join
Earth Engine
DuckDB
GeoAI / NL-to-SQL
Climate Health
Open · Free · Certificate
Health Geography – A Short Course
PALs · PRECISE Network (King's College London) · The Global Health Network Training Centre, University of Oxford · Funded by UKRI GCRF
Health geography links health and disease outcomes to the socio-cultural and physical environments and places that generate them. Go beyond maps as simple tools — learn how geography mediates health outcomes, how to disaggregate health data in space to reveal new insights, and how to design more precise, locally-tailored public health interventions. Material is based on findings from PALs published work.
Health Geography
Place & Health
Spatial Epidemiology
Public Health
GIS
Global Health
Open · Free · Certificate
Geographical Access in Healthcare – A Short Course
PALs · PRECISE Network (King's College London) · The Global Health Network Training Centre, University of Oxford · Funded by UKRI (MR/P027938/1)
Geographical proximity to health services is a known determinant of access and better health outcomes. Learn how GIS is used to quantify spatial access to care, measure disparities across populations, and support evidence-based planning. After this course you'll have the core skills to progress to advanced spatial modelling in health geography.
GIS
Healthcare Access
Spatial Modelling
Health Equity
Public Health
Global Health
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SPECTRA — Personal Exposure & Trajectory Analysis
Free · Self-paced · No coding · Developed by Bongani, Rutendo, Zororo & Tatenda (PALs · MSU)
Turn raw GPS tracks from wearables, phones and low-cost sensors into personal air-pollution and heat-stress exposure estimates — using the live SPECTRA web app. Field mapping, indoor/outdoor classification, dwell-time weighting, micro-environment segmentation, quality assessment and export. Hands-on with Zimbabwe datasets (PM2.5, NO₂, WBGT).
GPS Trajectories
Personal Exposure
PM2.5 / NO₂
Heat Stress (WBGT)
Indoor/Outdoor
CHEAQI-MNCH
Opening soon
In development · Enrolment opening soon
GIPEX — Geospatial Indicators for Environmental Exposure
Free · Self-paced · No coding · Place Alert Labs · MSU · CHEAQI-MNCH
Turn any study grid into 57 satellite and geospatial exposure indicators — air quality, climate, vegetation, land cover, population, terrain and road-emission proxies — for places with sparse ground monitoring. Run extractions, read interactive maps (point & 100 m pixel surface, switchable basemaps), explore relationships, and export as GeoTIFF/NetCDF/CSV.
Earth Observation
Air Quality
Environmental Exposure
Sentinel / MODIS / ERA5
GIS
CHEAQI-MNCH
Opening soon
Upcoming
Spatial Epidemiology with R
Disease mapping, cluster detection, and risk modelling
Spatial analysis of disease outcomes using R and sf. Covers choropleth mapping, Kulldorff scan statistics, and regression with spatially correlated residuals. Based on real DHIS2 district data.
R
sf / tmap
Disease Mapping
DHIS2
Not yet open
In development
Earth Engine for Health Research
Satellite data extraction for epidemiological cohorts
Learn to build automated pipelines that extract ERA5, MODIS, CHIRPS, and Sentinel-2 data at participant locations over a study period. Covers service account auth, FeatureCollection workflows, and export to BigQuery.
Python
Earth Engine
ERA5
MODIS
BigQuery
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