Using Biostatistics to Make Public Health Decisions

Catalog description

The objective of the three-course data sequence is for students to develop the knowledge, skills, and perspectives necessary to use data to make public health decisions. These three data courses complement each other, but do not have to be taken in a specific order. In this course, students learn core principles and methods of biostatistics and data analysis as they apply to public health case studies/current real-world examples. This course focuses on statistical principles as well as the applied skills necessary to answer public health questions using data, including the following: data analysis, data interpretation and the presentation of results. This course is intended to teach students both the basic knowledge required to develop and interpret quantitative studies as well as the skills to conduct basic statistical analyses.