Health GIS Story Maps

Spring 2022 edition

Click on each title or image below to explore the Story Map


How access and availability of maternal health are distributed within the Ecuadorian Capital

Addie Engebretson

An exploration of the Zika epidemic in Colombia

Roan Floer-Martinez


Identifying and Assessing Socioeconomic and Demographic Variables to Explain Patterns of Breast Cancer Incidence Rate in North Carolina

Quinn Frankovsky


Comparing Medicaid Expansion in Appalachian States

Augusta Fricke



Evaluating Access to Emergency Medical Services in Rural and Remote Communities

Marley Kehew



The Association Between Pollution and Asthma Prevalence in California

Christine McCormick



Investigating the Changes in Spatial Distributions and Associations between Opioid Overdose Mortality and Race in Ohio

Alice Pham



A Wheely Local Analysis on Road Crashes Before and After the Launch of Metro Bike Share

Gina Qian

Modeling Risk of Future Avian Flu Outbreak in MN Feedlots

Gabriel Reynolds


About the Projects

These Story Maps are the final projects for GEOG-368, Health GIS, Spring semester 2022 in the Geography Department at Macalester College. In this class, we flex the spatial-analytical side of medical geography, using GIS and statistical software to analyze the spatial distribution of diseases and other health problems, and to generate hypotheses about the causes of those patterns. The class was taught by Eric Carter with the assistance of Nethmi Bathige and Christine Justiniano, our TAs, and Ashley Nepp, GIS Lab Coordinator.

If you have any comments or suggestions about the Story Maps, please email Eric Carter (ecarter@macalester.edu)

Image credits: see specific Story Map projects!