Using Big Data for Public Health Research
BUSPH Professor Elaine Nsoesie discusses how to use data from internet sources to study population health in a practical and ethical way.
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Implementing and evaluating the appropriate research methods is essential to developing solutions to complex health challenges.
BUSPH Professor Elaine Nsoesie discusses how to use data from internet sources to study population health in a practical and ethical way.
The goal of this program is to introduce participants to the data, tools, and methods of population health research. Participants will develop the skills necessary to formulate and answer consequential research questions in population health research drawing on theory and methods from epidemiology, biostatistics, and the broader social sciences.
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