Health Equity in the Spotlight at 2022 Esri User Conference

Health Equity is a complex challenge with multiple root causes and contributing factors making it difficult to know where to start. For many government and healthcare organizations, mapping health equity using a Geography Information System (GIS) was the best place to start. By showing health equity issues on a map, several organizations and individuals who presented at the 2022 Esri User Conference were able to spur action and direct resources to the areas that needed it the most. Incorporating Race into GIS Dashboards In 2019, the County of Milwaukee became the first jurisdiction in the country to declare racism a public health crisis. Since that declaration, the County has worked to incorporate race and race-related data into their decisions. Their public-facing COVID-19 dashboard, for example, allows citizens to view key public health information sorted by race – laying bare any potential health disparities. For their work, the County of Milwaukee won a SAG Award from Esri, the company that make the GIS platform that is used to visualize the data. PublicHealthMaps is an independent, data-driven, 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization based in the Washington, District of Columbia metropolitan area. In 2021 they partnered with the Latinx Voces Task Force to support the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ “Juntos sí Podemos/Together We Can Do This” public education campaign against COVID-19. Part of that support included an interactive map of the Latinx commun...
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