The laboratory is located in space formerly occupied by the Jorgensen Learning Resource Center located directly across from Randall Visitors Center on the ground level of the Del E. Webb Memorial Library complex. (See map).
Loma Linda University School of Public Health is a premiere provider of health geoinformatics training and education for the current and future public health workforce in the United States. The GIS department continues the School's efforts to enhance geoinformatics capacity in countries with developing economies and advance fully capable and interoperable information systems in the many organizations that participate in public health with judicious use of geoinformatics technology.
To date, LLU SPH has demonstrated leadership in the health geoinformatics field by achieving three important GIS educational "firsts." In 1996 School faculty designed and taught the first graduate-level GIS course offered at a U.S. School of Public Health. This was followed by launching the country's first health geographics bachelor's degree in 1998. Then a graduate-level certificate in health geoinformatics, designed to complement existing degrees or be offered as professional continuing education, was subsequently approved by the University and has been offered since autumn 2004. Since then, three additional GIS tracts have been approved in the areas of Global Health and Development, Business Administration, and Environmental Health.
This KVCR segment entitled "Tracking Disease" highlights the GIS lab and programs.
For course descriptions and faculty and department information, please consult the department of environmental and occupational health section in this University Catalog.
Loma Linda University School of Public Health has the only bachelor of science of public health (BSPH) in health geographics in the USA. This degree prepares students to use the latest geographic information systems (GIS) technology with emphasis in health and the environment.
The GIS program here at LLU is now a collaborating partner with Niigata University in Japan.
See the details of this agreement between the two universities.
Last Revised: Mon, Apr 28, 2008
