Research Guides: Public Health Resources: Maps and mapping

GIS at Harvard

Center for Geographic Analysis

The CGA professional staff has expertise in geospatial technologies across a range of scales, applications, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) platforms, including spatial data collection, geodatabase design, GIS data processing, spatial analysis, network analysis, geostatistics, remotely sensed image analysis, 3D and temporal data manipulation, cartography, web mapping, GIS system development, open source GIS, spatiotemporal big data analytics and cloud computing with GIS, as well as outsourced geospatial service oversight and project management. CGA staff conducts and supports research with geographic analysis and geospatial technologies in collaboration with scholars across the schools and divisions of Harvard.

Credit Courses @ Harvard

Learn about the many GIS Related and Spatial Analysis Courses offered each semester in areas such as public health, archaeology, social and environmental policy, operational GIS, and more. See Credit Courses being offered.

Non-Credit Training @ CGA

GIS Institute (two-week training institute held every semester. Research proposal required)
Cartography Workshop (One day workshop held every SPRING semester)
GIS for the Humanities and Social Sciences (One day workshop held every FALL semester)
Basic Introduction to GIS (Two-hour workshop held every semester)

CGA Video Tutorials

Previous CGA Workshops are presented in a self-guided Video Tutorial Series

Harvard Self-Learning: Browse the list of GIS Tutorials and Books available on campus, learn from topics addressed at CGA Seminar Series and on the CGA's Technical Blog. See also our Publications page and the CGA's Annual Conference pages for additional learning materials.

Esri Self-Learning: Esri provides a wealth of learning materials such as the Virtual Campus Courses, the ArcGIS Tutorials, the User Conference proceedings and technical workshops, and Esri's vast Library of Manuals for their products.