NIH Research Festival 2026

I instructed two workshops at the NIH Research Festival 2026 entitled “Geospatial for Everyone: Enhancing Your ‘Non-spatial’ Research with Geospatial Data” and “Git’n up to speed on version control” with Dr. Nathaniel MacNell who was unable to attend.

In the first workshop, we presented an interactive open-source workflow of geographically linking publicly available data to simulated locations and demonstrated how these data can be used for clinical study design and analysis. We used the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) & National Cancer Institute (NCI) Neighborhood Deprivation Index (NDI) throughout our examples, which is also calculated by my R package ndi (click here for more information).

In the second workshop, we introduced the Git language and other Git-enabled technology for epidemiologists to version control their software code.

DLH held two additional workshops for a total of four out of the twenty-nine vendor workshops held at the NIH Research Festival chosen out of hundreds of applicants. Check out the DLH LinkedIn post for pictures and more information.