PublicHealthMaps Three Years Later…

Can we all agree how fast time flies? June 27th marks exactly three years since the founding of PublicHealthMaps! In that time, we’ve been making strides to help empower people with greater understanding about public health, maps, and a variety of other topics. Our efforts have included increasing our online resources available to people, expanding our pool of talented volunteers, and growing our presence on social media.

At the same time, we all find ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic, an economic crisis, and social upheaval not witnessed in generations. These have laid bare the health disparities and inequities that have existed in our society and we have unfortunately seen at-risk populations bear the brunt of this.

There’s still much more to go, but we hope to add value during this time by providing timely and relevant information to help you understand what’s happening in the world and to help you empower you with the resources to help you be part of the solution to the problems that we all face.

Here is a quick rundown of our latest additions and what we have in store for the future:

New Staff

Meet Emily K. Dalton and Sydney Garcia, the newest members of the PublicHealthMaps Team!

**Emily K. Dalton, Digital Strategy Lead**

Emily K. Dalton is our new Digital Strategy Lead where she will be bringing her unique set of experiences and an outlook toward the future to help PublicHealthMaps address the most relevant topics of the day.

With an eye on how the past affects our future, be on the lookout for Emily’s insightful perspective on the future of public health and all things technology.

Learn more about Emily here.

Sydney Garcia is our new Environmental Health Lead. Her background in GIS and her current role as a National Parks Service Fellow have placed her in a perfect position to focus on issues related to green spaces, active transport, the built environment, climate change and more.

Read Sydney’s bio here and learn even more about Sydney with the “Surveying Sydney Garcia” post written by our very own Emily K. Dalton.

**Sydney Garcia, Environmental Health Lead**

New home Page

We have a new look for our home page that gets you right to the critical information that you need about public health, maps, and our ever-growing repository of resources.

Check out our new home page today!

New Instagram!

Our focus on Instagram will be around our Map Of The Week as well as our Calendar of health observances, conferences, and other events.

Check out our new Instagram page: www.instagram.com/publichealthmaps

NEW COVID-19 GATEWAY

Our new Coronavirus Disease 2019 Resource Gateway will feature the latest dashboards, resources for the public and professionals, as well as relevant podcasts, online training, and social media musings for your reference.

Check it today for the latest information on COVID-19!

NEW BLOG

Our new blog will have a slate of new content related to public health, mapping, technology, the environment, active transport, education, climate change, and much more from our staff and a variety of guest bloggers!

Check back each week for new posts!

Upcoming Brand New Content!

We have even more great things in the pipeline for later this year:

Amplifying the voices of women and people of color by highlighting their work
Interviews across public health, GIS, and a variety of other fields
Original maps from our team
New Monthly, Weekly, and Daily Calendar Events, Conferences, etc.
Tutorials
Partnerships with other organizations
And a few surprises along the way!

A big thank you to all of the individuals and organizations, both old and new, who have supported us along the way. We’ve been able to make it this far because of your help! The PublicHealthMaps Team always welcomes your feedback so please contact us and let us know how we’re doing, how we could improve, and what you would like to see in the future.

Its been an exciting journey thus far and we look forward to even bigger and better things in the future! Please #WearAMask, practice #SocialDistancing, and stay safe out there! Despite everything going on in the world, we are all in this together so watch out for one another and please take some time for yourselves.

Sincerely,

Edward Paul Vallejo

Founder & Epidemiologist