FURTHER INFO
For more information regarding ArcGIS, visit http://www.esri.com
For information summarizing GIS and medicine, see Ostfeld, Richard, Gregory Glass, and Felicia Keesing. “Spatial Epidemiology: An Emerging (or Re-Emerging) Discipline.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20 (2006): 328-336.
For information on GIS resources at Stanford University, visit the Branner Earth Sciences Library or the GIS at Branner Library page
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/gis/
For further information on Google Maps mashups, visit the blog, “Google Maps Mania:” http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
Or see http://www.epispider.org and http://www.healthmap.org
For further information on Google Earth mapping avian flu (HN51), see
http://earth.google.com/ to install the Google Earth software and then download http://www.nature.com/nature/googleearth/avianflu1.kml
For futher information on the WHO Public Health Mapping and GIS Program, visit http://www.who.int/health_mapping/en/
For more information on stochastic modeling and its potential application to parasitic disease, visit Harvard Professor Marcia Castro’s publications page http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/marcia-castro/.
For more information regarding the Malaria Atlas Project, visit http://www.map.ox.ac.uk/
For further information on an example schistosomiasis research in China, see
http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/china/edmund/
For more information specifically on the NASA MMS project, visit the 2006 report released under the Public Health section http://aiwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/current_dss.html
For more information (link to additional resources tab) on the NASA Applied Sciences Programs in general, visit:
http://aiwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://www.science.hq.nasa.gov/earth-sun/applications/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/142302main_2006_NASA_Strategic_Plan.pdf