Turning Data into Action
Join us January 8-12, 2018 for short, immersive programs open to professionals, from across sectors, with all levels of public health knowledge. This year’s Winter Institute focuses on turning data into action, with program topics including intervention planning, data visualization, SAS, and public health informatics.
Current students in higher education, BUSPH alumni, along with BU faculty and staff, will receive a 25 percent discount on all offerings. We also offer a 25 percent discount for any resident of upper-middle-income countries, lower-middle-income countries and low-income countries (based on the World Bank Classification).
Programs
Enhancing the Impact of Your Research with More Effective Data Visualization
Clearly written text and well-designed tables and figures enhance understanding; poorly written text and poorly designed tables and figures create confusion.
Intervention Strategies in Public Health
Learn how to successfully plan an intervention that is theory-driven, evidence-based, feasible, and evaluable.
Introduction to SAS
This program introduces students to statistical computing with focus on the SAS package. Emphasis is on manipulating data sets and basic statistical procedures such as t-tests, chi-square tests, and correlation.
Monitoring and Evaluating the Impact of Public Health Programs
Are public health interventions working? Develop the skills necessary to ensure that our public health programs are making the change they are meant to make to improve lives and build healthy populations.
Engage and Inspire Your Audience with Story Maps | Webinar
With a Story Map, you can combine your maps with narrative text that you create and edit on demand, images, and multimedia content to create compelling, user-friendly web apps (known as Story Maps) that simply tell the story of your data.
