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Professor Helps Improve Rwandan Health Care

  

August 11, 2008 -

University of Redlands' Associate Professor of Geographic Information Systems, Max Baber is leading a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project in Rwanda.  

GIS, an electronic mapping system which allows different types of data to be linked to a specific location, is being used to help improve health care in Rwanda. 

Baber is currently gathering data on important health issues to link to Rwandan locations on a GIS map:

  • Information on where health services and supplies are needed most;
  • Where malaria cases are increasing or decreasing;
  • The availability of drinking water. 
     

Baber hopes that once the map is produced it will help the developing country make better use of their resources. Click here to read more at BBC News.