Engage and Inspire Your Audience with Story Maps

Everyone has data to share and a story to tell…..so why not use a Story Map?

Webinar | January 11th, 2018

With a Story Map, you can combine your maps with narrative text that you create and edit on demand, images, and multimedia content to create compelling, user-friendly web apps (known as Story Maps) that simply tell the story of your data. As a student, alumni or aspiring researcher, one could use these story maps to investigate pertinent issues in public health, disease surveillance, chronic illness, political geography, public safety, or other pertinent areas of interest.

This webinar helps participants understand why a story can be effectively told with today’s interactive, web-based story maps, learn how to showcase your data using the story map format, and learn how to create story maps that incorporate sounds, video, photographs, narrative, and other multimedia. Through several examples and discussion viewers will learn how and why to create story maps using the ArcGIS Online platform and be confident that you can use them for your data when you are ready. Additional resources can be found in the Powerpoint below.

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Meet the Instructors

Jess Malenfant

SPH '06, is a Health Informatics Analyst in the Dept. of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute in Boston, MA. She provides informatics and software development leadership and expertise to support socio-technical platforms used in large-scale research and public health surveillance initiatives. Prior experience includes working as a surveillance epidemiologist at the MA Dept. of Public Health and implementing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) tools to help radiologists meet quality metrics. She focuses on using public health experience to interpret and apply data, standards, & technologies to projects. Jessica holds an MPH from BUSPH and Certificate in Clinical Informatics from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

T. Scott Troppy

SPH ‘98, is currently a Surveillance Epidemiologist with the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences in the Office of Integrated Surveillance and Informatics Services at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) in Boston, MA. He has worked in local, state and federal health settings in various surveillance and epidemiology related capacities. He holds a BBA in Management and an MPH in Epidemiology/Biostatistics and Health Services and has a PMP certification in project management. Additional he holds certificates in informatics and geographic information systems.