Data and Information Management in Public Health

Catalog description

This course provides students with a full introduction to data and information management. The topics include tools for collecting data, database concepts, data-entry techniques, queries of databases, data sharing, data reporting, and database design. Hands-on exercises are mainly practiced on MS Access. Having taken the course, students will be able to perform basic database functions to clean, collect, sort, share, retrieve, report, and alter data.