Carnegie Mellon Today
profiles Kristen Kurland and her work using GIS to help battle health problems including obesity. She's author of ESRI Press'
GIS Tutorial for Health touted as the gold standard of the discipline and used, says the article, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The fact that ESRI published this book in 2006 suggests to me that there's still a long way to go in integrating GIS into health care. The article touts this use of GIS as a "new discipline." Let's see: John Snow did his cholera mapping in 1854.
