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afrimapr: Creating reusable R building blocks for mapping data in Africa in 2020

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geospatialhealthcare

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software
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WalSou
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fig
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Presentation for satRday Johannesburg 2020 on 7 March 2020 in South Africa.
The afrimapr project will create software building blocks in R and learning resources to facilitate the use of spatial data in health (and other) applications in Africa. The project will promote these resources to initiate a community of users and developers to maintain and improve them. Co-authors: Dr Andy South (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK)Dr Paula Moraga, (Lancaster University, UK)Dr Julie-Anne Tangena (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK)Dr Robin Lovelace (University of Leeds, UK)Dr Margareth Gfrerer (Education Strategy Center, Ethiopia)Anelda van der Walt (Talarify, South Africa)

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111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classifiedFOS: Health sciencesFOS: Health sciences80702 Health InformaticsFOS: Media and communicationsFOS: Media and communications111711 Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance)Uncategorized

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