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Aug 21, 2024
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PH 306 - Public Health Informatics: The Role of Data Units: 3 Students will gain an understanding and application of public health informatics and technology with a focus on health/healthcare disparities. Students will procure, create, clean, manage, and analyze data to answer public health questions. Health informatics standards will also be introduced.
Prerequisites: PH 206 Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online Asynchronous or Online Synchronous. Grading: A-F grading only. Cross-listed: STAT 306 Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Sort, organize, and manage data, including establishing an understanding of how to address missing data.
- Merge datasets from different sources, noting the challenges and solutions associated with data interoperability.
- Identify and analyze disparities in existing sources of health and healthcare data, including the role of various biases.
- Apply various data visualization techniques (including descriptive statistics such as histograms, box plots, line charts and Excel maps).
- Understand that data does not just exist but needs systems to create it. This entails challenges in technology, protection and privacy, and alignments of public and private interests.
- Understand the critical role of health informatics standards in interoperability of public health (aggregate) data as it moves between local jurisdictions to state to federal.
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