Generating Evidence from Public Health Data

Catalog description

The course introduces students to the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge, and the role of qualitative and quantitative analytic methods in describing and comparing health determinants and outcomes in a variety of public health contexts. The course has three primary focus areas: data collection, data analysis, and interpretation and communication of results. Course topics include study design and sampling, questionnaire development, data visualization, and statistical inference and modeling. Students will use software to analyze data and will learn how to appropriately report on findings both in writing and orally.