“IM Nashville” is dedicated to bringing an interactive, user friendly map to the people of Nashville, Tennessee.  The idea is to involve and interconnect the city’s community. The specific aim of this website is to speed up the process of developing, conducting, and disseminating the results of research that arises from community geographic information systems (GIS) that builds upon the collection, storage, and analysis of secondary data of health outcomes, and social and environmental determinants of health disparities. Community GIS also builds upon the following goals:

• Goal One: Enhance our research capacity for collecting, storing and analyzing data on the natural, built, and social environments, as well as their effects on health disparities through community – based participatory research.

• Goal Two: Expand health disparities research training and career development opportunities by recruiting a post – doctoral fellow to study health disparities among minority and low social and economic populations.

• Goal Three: Engage investigators and community members to collaborate in all phases of health disparities research, including data collection, study design and implementation, and findings dissemination.

The purpose of IM Nashville is for researchers and community members to come together to share data, ideas, experiences, and expertise for the betterment of all communities involved.  It is a public website that provides the opportunity for community groups to input and/or view data.