This is the shared Github code and data repository for members of InvaHealth. Curated by @cjabradshaw, @glatombe, and @chrisdiagne.
If you are affiliated with InvaHealth and have a Github account (click here to subscribe to Github if not), but are not yet a member of this Github organisation, please request membership here.
The objective of InvaHealth is to categorise and quantify the specific impacts of biological invasions on human health
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Biological invasions are a major component of global change. They have important ecological, socio-economic, and health consequences, including the spread of diseases, severe allergies, and impacts on mental and physical well-being. The monetary quantification of these impacts is an effective way to alert policymakers and stakeholders, and contributing to the co-design of sustainable solutions. While the recent, open-access InvaCost database provides a comprehensive overview of monetary costs associated with invasive species, health-related costs remain underrepresented.The InvaHealth database will be based on a framework including an eco-epidemiological component detailing various mechanisms affecting health and an economic component assessing cost distribution among stakeholders. This resource will facilitate future research, inform science-based policies, and contribute to better human health outcomes by preventing and addressing invasion-driven impacts, while promoting biodiversity conservation and ecological integrity.
- Guillaume Latombe, University of Edinburgh
- Christophe Diagne, Institut de recherche pour le développement
- Elena Angulo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Corey Bradshaw, Flinders University
- Pierre Courtois, Centre for Environmental Economics
- Ross Cuthbert, Queen's University Belfast
- Melina Kourantidou, University of Southern Denmark
- Paulina Pontifes, Institut de recherche pour le développement
- David Renault, Université de Rennes
- David Roiz, Institut de recherche pour le développement
- Anna Turbelin, Natural Resources Canada
Example content:
- WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: shapefiles for assessing the ecoregion associated with each database entry
WWFecoregionOverlay.R: find the biome in the WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World shapefile for specific lat/lon coordinatescountryCentroids.R: find the latitude/longitude of the centroid of any countrycountrycodes.R: translate full country names in various languages to the ISO3 country codecurrencyConvert.R: translates any currency value into a specified USD-equivalent (set year); also includes code to correct for purchase power parity
- InvaHealthDDdescriptors: column descriptions for the InvaHealth database
- assignDOI: Assign a digital object identifier (DOI) to your Github repository
- FAIR_Workshop_github: A repository for practicing the basic use of Github
- learningRresources: Various online & other resources for learning and improving skills in the R programming language
- learningPythonResources: Various online & other resources for learning and improving skills in the Python programming language
- QGIS: A free, open-source, cross-platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)
- FRBCesab: The Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité (FRB) Centre de synthèse et d'analyse sur la biodiversité (CESAB) Github organisation page
