HLTH 619Fundamental Research Methods in Health Informatics

This course focuses on the fundamental methods that are commonly employed in modern health informatics research to collect, store, organize, process, analyze, and communicate data/information/knowledge. An introduction to programming in Python is provided during the first half of the course, which is then applied through the use of machine learning to examine public health data. Students will gain both theoretical knowledge and practical experience so that they can apply the learned methods in practice after completing this course.