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.

Meet the Instructor

Elaine Nsoesie, PhD, MS

is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at BUSPH. She is also a BU Data Science Faculty Fellow as part of the BU Data Science Initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing and a Data and Innovation Fellow at The Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Office of the President in Sierra Leone. Dr. Nsoesie applies data science methodologies to global health problems, using digital data and technology to improve health, particularly in the realm of surveillance of chronic and infectious diseases.