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: Variable Intermittently

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.