Good Health and Well-Being in War-Torn Ukraine

Here is a poster project completed recently. It did not get high marks. I have a different view than most people about these sorts of things. I feel that if you want to educate people, and that includes getting their attention, you have to something at least somewhat interesting visually. When I look at a poster with endless lines of text crammed into every inch with no regard for some design asthetics, I just do not even try to look at it. I believe it is something some many people in academia miss. They seem to just te things for others in academia, when perhaps some effort should be made to create things that the general public might learn from. 

Back to the poster. It relates how the war has severly hampered Ukraine from reaching the United Nations goal of achieving good health. Data was extracted from the United Nations, WHO, Humanitarian Exchange, ACLED, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Data were cleaned up in Excel and imported into ArcGIS Pro where it was merged together to map spatially. Maps were exported and the poster was created with elements drawn in Adobe Illustrator and imported in Photoshop. The results were also published to my website and can be accessed via the QR code on the poster.

It took some effort, and a lot of time, but the lessons learned were well worth it.