Advancing Health & Place: The 2025 Fellowship Showcase

Throughout the spring, the SDOH & Place Project released a new round of Showcase articles highlighting how geospatial storytelling can deepen our understanding of health, equity, and place. Developed by ambassadors of the 2025 Fellowship cohort, each project combines spatial data, public health research, and interactive web mapping to explore social and environmental issues across the United States.

The 2025 cohort demonstrates the breadth and versatility of SDOH-informed geospatial visualization. Their applications examine issues ranging from mapping Hepatitis C service sites in Los Angeles and the role of social infrastructure in spatial equity in Denver, to an overview of community health throughout the entire state of Illinois.

A screenshot from Jacob Gizamba's "HepResourceMap" dashboard.

Further details on each individual project, including tech specs, motivations behind the development, and links to the application itself, can be found on our Showcases page: sdohplace.org/showcase.

These Showcases highlight the SDOH & Place Project’s commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and public engagement. By teaching technical skills to answer local questions, the 2025 cohort demonstrates how geospatial tools can help make complex social determinants of health data more visible, understandable, and actionable.

A screenshot from Dr. Brian Chen's dashboard: "Uncovering the Factors of Diabetes: A Multi-Level SDOH Analysis Using AI and Geospatial Techniques".