Jill Kelly, Ph.D.

I can help YSPH affiliates with:

• ArcGIS Pro and other Esri products

• QGIS, GeoDa

• Geospatial Analysis Using Python

• Spatial Statistical Analysis

• Google Earth Engine

• Satellite Remote Sensing

• 3D Visualization and Cartography

• Data Privacy Considerations, and more...

Dr. Kelly is a lecturer in GIS at the School of Public Health and a recent graduate of the School of the Environment. Jill has taught full-semester GIS courses at Harvard for four years and at Yale for two. She has designed and led workshops on QGIS, ModelBuilder, python, GIS for land use planning, and Google Earth Engine. She has experience with a wide diversity of datasets and GIS analysis, from boreal forest biomass to COVID-19 statistics, from nuclear waste storage to the public toilets of Australia. Her particular interests are the statistical effects of areal aggregation and GIS ethics. Jill also specializes in creative solutions to tricky technical problems. 

Reserve a Public Health GIS Consultation with Jill Kelly, Ph.D. (Fall & Spring semester)

• Summer consultations: By appointment. Please send a request to jill.kelly@yale.edu 

I can help you with:

• GIS integration to projects/research

• Design GIS workshop for a course syllabus

• GIS project planning

• Spatial data sources

• GIS foundations

• Esri software

• Mapping tabular and spatial data

• Geocoding sensitive data

• GIS infrastructure

• GIS careers, and more...

Miriam Olivares is the GIS Librarian at Yale University Library. With 20 years of geospatial experience, she coordinates GIS support services in higher education. At Yale, and previously at Texas A&M University, she connects experts and teaches and consults GIS, thus enabling others’ geospatial power to promote teaching and cutting-edge research. She was featured in the book Women and GIS: Mapping their Stories, has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, has participated in binational GIS panels, and collaborated in projects based in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Central America, and recently in Somalia. Her collaborations include interdisciplinary research concerning GIScience, crime analysis, natural hazards, marine conservation, and public health among other subjects. Miriam is a member of the board of directors of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. She co-founded and serves as the international chair for GIS LATAM' and is a fellow of the Yale Timothy Dwight College. She previously served as a member of the board of directors of New Haven-based Junta for Progressive Action and as co-chair of Yale Women in Tech.

Reserve a GIS Consultation with Miriam Olivares