Data Management and Use for Public and Community Health

Catalog description

Understanding approaches to working with data provides critical skills to support public and community health research and practice. This course is intended to give students background on data management for quantitative and qualitative data, including both primary and secondary data sources, and working with large datasets. Students will work hands-on with data in various formats and will also learn fundamental skills in data management, working with databases, data quality, data documentation, and related topics.