The first issue of PUBLICise HEALTH, EDENext’s Public Health Telegram, has just been published. Designed to inform interested individuals and institutions about the project’s research results on vector-borne diseases with direct or indirect impact on public health issues, the first edition concentrates on the work of the rodent and insectivore-borne diseases (Rainbo) group.
Caroline Zeimes (UCL, Belgium) has kindly contributed a Good Beginners overview of ESRI's ArcGIS. The tutorial/exercise outlines the basic features of ArcMap and ArcCatalog. How to utilise the help documentation, and how to display points and symbolise data among other things.
For those EDEnext partners who are working with QGIS on the EDENext Distance learning course. This exercise would be a good starting place if you would like to transfer the skills you have learnt with QGIS and use them within the ESRI suite of GIS software.
Jorian Prudhomme (IRD) has kindly shared the R-script code which he uses tto import his sand-fly sample data into the EDENext approved sandfly (PhBD group) database format.
The EDENext PhD & PostDoc meeting is currently underway at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Twenty-six PhD students and postdocs will be presenting today and tomorrow.
The students will then take a vote and the strongest presentations will be given the chance to present in front of the full EDENext AGM later in the week. The EDENext conference will then decide who will win the Presentation competition and the first prize of a significant contribution to visiting a International conference of their own choice.
An announcement from Professeur Patrick Bastien, Director, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculte de Médecine Centre, National de Reference des Leishmanioses Deputy Director, UMR MIVEGEC (CNRS 5290 - IRD 224 - Universites Montpellier 1 et 2) CHU de Montpellier. Which may be of interest to EDENext Partners and others in the field of leishmaniases...
The EDENext Data Management Team is planning to promote maps of selected vector datasets on EyeOnEarth.org (EoE). We hope EoE will prove to be a useful platform to promote the EDENext project and the work of the EDENext Data management team. The EoE site should be a useful place to promote added value datasets from the project to the wider GIS community beyond the spatial epidemiological corner in which we work.
The EDENext Data Portal provides a wide range of alternative Climate datasets. The following datasets are currently available to download from the download category Atmospheric Conditions and Meteorological Geographical Features.
