GIS for Disease Monitoring
and Outbreak Response

 In June of 2016 there was a major polio outbreak in the DRC. Our Envicom team member Amanda Miner was invited to be on a Specialty Technical Team selected by GISCorps for WHO, UNICEF, and the CDC, managed real-time development and adaptation of web-application to needs on the ground. This ESRI-based application captured and validated hundreds of thousands of individual structures from current high-resolution satellite imagery, and provided field data collection capacity that would tie all data collected to every relevant household. This also helped aid team response strategies, plan optimal routes, and quantify medical supplies. This was a first-of-its-kind effort at this scale.