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Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute

Program

Learning objectives

After completing the course, you will be able to:

  1. Describe the relevance, potential, and challenges of spatial and digital epidemiological approaches to advance urban health research:
    • Review concepts of geospatial data analysis and visualization
    • Describe big geodata social media analytics for public health
  2. Apply robust spatial and digital epidemiological approaches towards addressing important urban health challenges:
    • Analyse mental health outcomes as identified in social media
    • Employ geo-processing (e.g., integrating geo-spatial social media information)
    • Perform exploratory spatial data analysis (e.g., geo visualization and mapping)
    • Apply spatial statistics (e.g., hotspot analysis, spatial regression)
  3. Develop a project with potential for real-world urban health impact using geospatial big data methods:
    • Extend your multidisciplinary network
    • Work more effectively in collaboration with other disciplines for investigating multidisciplinary health problems.
• Work more effectively in collaboration with
   other disciplines for investigating multidisciplinary health problems.