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Leidich et al. 2018. Methods for sampling geographically mobile female traders in an East African market setting. PLOS One.

This study uses mapping and GPS to address an urgent need for novel methods for developing probability-based, systematic samples of highly mobile women, focusing on a population of female traders operating out of one of the largest open air markets in East Africa.

Strano et al. 2018. Mapping road network communities for guiding disease surveillance and control strategies. Nature 8:4744.

The approaches and results presented in this study provide a flexible tool for supporting the design of disease surveillance and control strategies through mapping areas of high connectivity that form coherent units of intervention and key link routes between communities for targeting surveillance

Ehrlich et al. 2017. Public health implications of changing patterns of recruitment into the South African mining industry, 1973–2012: a database analysis. BMC Public Health.

This article looks at the South African mining industry and uses GIS for projection of disease burden and direction of compensation, screening and treatment services for the ex-miner population throughout Southern Africa.

Palk and Blower. 2018. Geographic variation in sexual behavior can explain geospatial heterogeneity in the severity of the HIV epidemic in Malawi. BMC Medicine 201816:22.

This article uses geospatial analysis to test that severity of HIV epidemics is due to geographic variation in Malawi.

Alex Tait’s presentation at the 2017 meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society.

Tait’s presentation, Visual Hierarchy and Layout in the Practice of Map Design, is loaded with ideas that can help you create more effective maps.