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  • Advancing Geospatial Techniques for Vector-Borne Disease Research: Insights from GIScience-CSIAD Collaboration – a conference recap

    Advancing Geospatial Techniques for Vector-Borne Disease Research: Insights from GIScience-CSIAD Collaboration – a conference recap

    Recently, Hanse-Wirtschaftskolleg hosted its meeting which brought together experts from GIScience and CSIAD lab, along with renowned researchers from universities in Germany, Thailand, and Ghana, serving as a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration on vector-borne diseases. This event brought together esteemed researchers to share their expertise and insights into combating mosquito-borne illnesses. As an invited speaker,…

  • Open Healthcare Access Map Update and HDX

    Last year we started the Open Healthcare Access Map.  Initially, only a few countries and later on continents were featured. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are releasing a number of previously missing countries, achieving global coverage. The Open Healthcare Access Map uses healthcare facilities extracted from OpenStreetMap, the isochrone method from openrouteservice…

  • Access to safe abortion in Germany

    Our team thoroughly enjoyed the newly in-person State of the Map 2022 in Florence. We attended workshops, talks, and had the opportunity to present our own poster about the accessibility of abortion clinics in Germany, which will be discussed in this post and can be found here. In the following blog, we’ll explore more information…

  • Global Health Academy 2021: workshop material online

    Last week, the Global Health Academy 2021 took place in an online format with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemics. The conference was conveyed by the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH) and aimed at practitioners, researchers and PhD students in the public health domain. Dr. Sven Lautenbach with support by Steffen Knoblauch and Marcel…

  • Global Health Academy Heidelberg 2021

    Next week Tuesday and Wednesday, 2.-3. November the Global Health Academy will take place. An online forum for an open exchange, debate and training on Global Health challenges. The Forum is hosted by the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health together with the Heidelberg Graduate School of Global Health. In close collaboration with the Institute of…

  • Alexander Zipf selected as Marsilius Fellow 2021/2022 – Project with HIGH on Climate Change and Health

    Many pressing problems of our time – climate change, aging societies, questions of modern medicine – cannot be solved by one discipline alone. It is becoming ever more urgent for scholars to collaborate across disciplines – natural sciences, life sciences, and social sciences, law, and humanities. The Marsilius Kolleg at Heidelberg University is an institutional…

  • New training program “Research Training on Harnessing Data Science for Global Health Priorities in Africa”

    A new training program, “Research Training on Harnessing Data Science for Global Health Priorities in Africa” has been granted by the US National Institute of Health (NIH) and will build upon existing data science research capacity at the partnering institutions to enhance innovative new data science research capacity related to health priorities in Africa. Harvard…

  • All countries of Central and South America now on Open Healthcare Access Map

    After Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia we have now published all countries of Central and South America on the Open Healthcare Access Map. The web application is available here: https://apps.heigit.org/healthcare_access/. Please note that this is still a prototype and feedback on improvements and desired functionalities is very welcome. You can reach us at…

  • All countries of South and Southeast Asia now on Open Healthcare Access Map

    It’s been a little longer than a month since we published the Open Healthcare Access Map. Last week we rolled out all countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Today all countries of South and Southeast Asia follow. The web application is available here: https://apps.heigit.org/healthcare_access/. To get a clearer understanding of healthcare infrastructure data in OpenStreetMap, please consult…

  • geoEpi – new DFG research project on spatio-temporal epidemiology of emerging viruses

    A couple of viruses are of global interest with respect to human health and well-being. These pathogens include the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, Dengue, Chikungunya, Yellow fever, Zika and Ebola. These viruses show interesting spatio-temporal dynamics. Improved understanding of the driving and moderating factors will help to cope with these pathogens. The recently funded new project…

  • All countries of Sub-Saharan Africa now in Open Healthcare Access Map

    Last month we started the Open Healthcare Access Map.  Initially, only a few countries were featured. Gradually, more countries and regions are now being added. Today we release all countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The web application is available here: https://apps.heigit.org/healthcare_access/. Please note that this is still a prototype and feedback on improvements and desired functionalities…

  • German Mass Vaccination Sites in Open Healthcare Access Map

    Last week we introduced Open Healthcare Access Map. Our new web application for interactively sharing results of accessibility estimates based on OpenStreetMap healthcare facilities and openrouteservice isochrones. A new update now shows motorized accessibility estimates of mass vaccination sites in Germany. Accessible via this directlink: https://apps.heigit.org/healthcare_access/#/countries/deu/covid19_vaccination/adm0 These results are based on an analysis by Sven…