Graduate Prerequisites: Enrollment restricted to DrPH students and other degree candidates with consent of instructor. - This course examines the processes by which local and regional health status and services can be assessed and analyzed. Students will learn approaches to: quantitatively and qualitatively define public health problems; set a community agenda by prioritizing distinct public health problems; engage the community in assessing local capacity to address those problems; visualize those problems with Geographic Information Systems; and present the results of their assessment to audiences of decision makers and the public.