{"id":439862,"date":"2023-01-04T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/blog\/?post_type=blog&p=439862"},"modified":"2023-01-06T18:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:16:24","slug":"happy-new-year-lets-enhance-our-gis-skills-together","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/blog\/articles\/happy-new-year-lets-enhance-our-gis-skills-together","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year: Let\u2019s Enhance Our GIS Skills Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m wishing everyone a 2023 filled with happiness, good luck, and the very best of health!<\/p>\n\n

For me, January 1st<\/sup> is always a special occasion. I absolutely love the annual process of welcoming in a new year. Despite having done it 58 times, it never ceases to bring a sense of possibility and ambition to the fore. This year, I\u2019m going to share one of my resolutions with you and invite you to join me in accomplishing a worthy goal \u2013 building and modernizing Health GIS skills.<\/p>\n\n

Before we get into the specifics of this goal, I\u2019d like to share my annual resolution process with you. In keeping with the spirit of the occasion, I begin by internalizing my inner Janus. As you may know, Janus, the Roman god for which January was named, is the god of beginnings, gates, doorways, transitions, time, passages, frames and endings. He is often pictured with two faces \u2013 one that looks backward and one that looks forward. That\u2019s exactly what I like to do.<\/p>\n\n

Looking backward, I review my prior year\u2019s resolutions \u2013 assessing my progress on each one and documenting my final conclusions. I usually achieve about 70-75% of my goals. This year, having just completed the process, I was closer to about 50%. You might not be impressed, but I\u2019m still thrilled that I made so much progress. Did I mention that I had 40 resolutions for 2022? Completion of 20 goals is a big deal!<\/p>\n\n

Looking forward, I build a series of goals that revolve around several life areas: health and personal care, financial, recreation, household, career, social\/family\/personal. Ultimately, I\u2019m trying to use my goal setting to help achieve a sense of life balance while also adopting new behaviors and enriching myself. Each goal is a relatively SMART goal, meant to be measurable at the end of the year (or at some specific point during the year). It all works pretty well for me.<\/p>\n\n

This year, I thought I\u2019d add a bit of transparency to one of my career goals \u2013 building and modernizing my GIS skills. Prior to joining Esri as the Chief Medical Officer, I had great desktop GIS abilities since they were an integral part of my research and teaching program at the University of California Davis. And while I know an awful lot about GIS, constant product updates, changes, and releases requires me to also refine my GIS skills from time to time.<\/p>\n\n

So here\u2019s the goal:<\/p>\n\n

Work through each lesson in the <\/strong>Health GIS Curriculum<\/strong><\/a> by August 1, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Here\u2019s how I\u2019ll approach it:<\/p>\n\n

  • Starting in January 2023, I will work through a section per month for a total of 6 months<\/li>
  • I will compose a monthly blog documenting my experience for each section (total of 6 blogs)<\/li>
  • I will also create an educational video\/lecture for each section to further connect the curriculum tutorials to the needs of the health industry and post the videos in the curriculum<\/li><\/ul>\n\n

    Those of you who know me, know that I\u2019m passionate about my work and I strongly believe that a geographic approach to many health challenges could really change the game. However, too few epidemiologists, data scientists, health analysts, informatics professionals, CIOs and other executives know the capabilities of GIS software nor how to use it. This curriculum was meant to build those skills quickly with focused lessons using real-world scenarios. While you could take advantage of any number of opportunities to learn Health GIS \u2013 this is perhaps the most streamlined approach yet. It’s free and you can do it on your own time.<\/p>\n\n

    Want to join me? Completing Section 1 \u2013 Introduction to GIS Fundaments<\/em><\/strong> is the goal for January. The section has 10 tutorials that amount to about 8 hours of training. It\u2019s the longest of the 6 sections in the curriculum. It\u2019s a good thing we\u2019re doing this first while our motivation is high! I know we can do it.<\/p>\n\n

    Let\u2019s get started. I\u2019d really love to hear from you. Are you resolving to join me in this challenge? As you go through the lessons, you can provide feedback (there is a button for that on the front page of the curriculum to make it easy). Let me know if you have suggestions to make this better or ideas for new Health GIS tutorials. I\u2019m listening and I\u2019ll know exactly what you\u2019re talking about since I\u2019m doing it too.<\/p>\n\n

    Here\u2019s to advancing our Health GIS community with up-to-date technology skills. 2023 is already looking like its going to be a great year!<\/p>\n\n

    Happy New Year!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":892,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[153,141,116,881],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439862","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health","category-location-intelligence","category-public-health-preparedness","industry-health"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHappy New Year: Let\u2019s Enhance Our GIS Skills Together<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Due to GIS software changes, updates, and releases periodically enhancing your GIS skills is crucial . 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