This document summarizes an upcoming MEASURE GIS Working Group meeting to discuss using GIS data and tools to achieve principles of the Global Health Initiative (GHI). The objectives of the meeting are to: 1) Present GHI principles to the spatial community; 2) Present innovative geospatial technology examples within GHI; 3) Identify opportunities for geospatial contributions to GHI learning and research; and 4) Build linkages between geospatial and GHI communities. The morning will include presentations on geospatial innovations and the afternoon will involve group work on contributing to the GHI learning agenda.

1. GIS and the Global Health
Initiative: Achieving GHI
Principles with GIS Data and
Tools
MEASURE GIS Working Group Meeting
April 27, 2011
Washington DC

2. Overview
 MEASURE GIS Working Group
 Regular meeting to explore state of the art in geo-
spatial tools, methods and techniques
 Share knowledge within MEASURE as well as
beyond.

3. Update
 Whitepaper on Open Source GIS
 Overview of open source GIS options and use
cases
 Inform both the software development and user
community
 Draft to sub-committee members

4. GIS and GHI
 Outgrowth of October 2010 meeting:
“Technical Consultation on Innovative Approaches
to Evaluation within the Global Health Initiative”

5. Objectives of day
1. Present GHI Principles to spatial community
2. Present innovative examples of geospatial
technologies contextualized within GHIS
3. Group work to identify opportunities for
geospatial community to contribute to GHIS
learning and research agenda
4. Build linkages between geospatial and GHI
community

6. Overview of day
 Morning
 Presentations showcasing innovations in
geospatial arena
 Afternoon
 Group work on contributing to the GHI learning
agenda