PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND ANALYTICS

PUBLHLTH 783

Gain the fundamental principles of epidemiology and biostatistics with an emphasis on those elements most relevant to applied public health practice. Provides training in epidemiology and biostatistical theory and methods through applied case examples that blend epidemiology principles with foundational statistical knowledge needed to collect and analyze public health data.

MEDICINE 914

The main concepts and challenges in medical data gathering and analysis. Identification of aspects of data gathering and measurement, including emerging data sources. Informatics concepts used in population health. Use of a self-reporting tools in an electronic health record to answer population health questions, including those surrounding health equity. Formulation of a population medicine-based clinical question, and development of a reporting strategy to answer the question. Communication of a population medicine issue, including a potential path for improvement and a description of the measurement of any impact of proposed change.

POPHLTH 820

Presentations by graduate students, professors, public health professionals and experts designed to cover the depth and breadth of research in the field of population health.

BMI/POPHLTH 551

Designed for population health researcher. Topics include descriptive statistics, elementary probability, probability distributions, one- and two-sample normal inference (point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals), power and sample size calculations, one- and two-sample binomial inference, underlying assumptions and diagnostic work.

ACTSCI 655

Introduction to the broad area of health, integrating how researchers from multiple perspectives have investigated various aspects of health, along with the hands-on practice of learning and using statistical tools to analyze these topics.