How GIS has changed our world

Global Health Atlas

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Have you ever stopped by The World Health Organization lately? The WHO has created a Communicable Disease Global Atlas that shows analysis and comparison of standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels. The data reports document on the major diseases of poverty such as tuberculosis, the diseases on their way towards eradication and elimination (such as guinea worm, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis) and epidemic prone and emerging infections for example meningitis, cholera, yellow fever and anti-infective drug resistance.

This site is very interesting so to check it out, please follow this link.

Melissa Lawrence, Rutgers Student Intern, VERTICES, LLC

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