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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all who made this book possible.

GIS Tutorial for Health was used by students at Carnegie Mellon University before it went to Esri Press for publication. The students and teaching assistants who used the book provided us with significant feedback. Their thoughtful comments guided our revisions and helped improve the content and overall quality of this book.

We are very grateful to the many individuals, organizations, and vendors who have generously supplied us with interesting GIS cases and data. These include Dr. Bruce Dixon, Gerald Barron, Jo Ann Glad, Dr. LuAnn Brink, Glenda Christy, Dan Cinpinski, Mike Diskin, Bruce Good, Dave Namey, and Thom Stulginski of the Allegheny County Health Department; Ross Capaccio of röös design + consulting, and Thom D. Freyer, CAE of the American College of Healthcare Executives, for the datasets used in the Partners for Success chapter deployment project; Carl Kinkade of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Noel S. Zuckerbraun, MD, MPH, assistant professor of pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Barbara A. Gaines, MD, director, Benedum Trauma Program, assistant professor of surgery, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Noor Ismail, Mike Homa, and Lena Andrews of the City of Pittsburgh, Department of City Planning; the Trustees of Dartmouth College, the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care; Linda Williams Pickle, PhD, and David Stinchcomb of the National Cancer Institute, Cancer Mortality Maps website; Chris Chalmers, GIS coordinator, Nebraska Health and Human Services, Bioterrorism Response Section director for GIS Public Health Research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, CALMIT; Maurie Kelly of Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA); Clara Burgert and Blake Zachary, IFC Marco, funding provided by US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the MEASURE DHS project; Nathan Heard, US Department of State; US Geological Survey and US Census Bureau; and Tele Atlas for use of its USA datasets contained within the Esri Data & Maps 2004 Media Kit.

Finally, thanks to the entire team at Esri and Esri Press.