Using Big Data for Public Health Research
Practically Speaking | February 10th, 2020
BUSPH Professor Elaine Nsoesie discusses how to use data from internet sources to study population health in a practical and ethical way.
Implementing and evaluating the appropriate research methods is essential to developing solutions to complex health challenges.
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