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Education Opportunity - January 2020 Online Courses in Population Health Data Analysis

November 06, 2019

Announcing January PHDA courses in Epi Stats and Health Services Monitoring and Evaluation

To learn more, join us for a free 30 minute webinar. We’ll introduce you to the benefits of our online Population Health Data Analysis (PHDA) professional specialization certificate program.

After this free 30-minute webinar you will:

  • Understand the value of a professional specialization certificate
  • Become familiar with the key training components of the PHDA program
  • Learn about the program’s strengths and benefits from PHDA graduates
  • Find out if the PHDA program is right for you - via Q & A time
  • Gain related free data analytic resources to support your educational goals

This webinar also includes a short guest presentation from PHDA 06 Instructor, Marla Steinberg, who will walk you through the key benefits and highlights of the course.

Tuesday November 19th, 11:00 to 11:30am PST

BONUS: For taking the webinar, you will receive free data analytic resources to use immediately in your work, and a discount on your application fee.

MORE INFO and to REGISTER

These 12 week, fully online, non credit courses are offered as a partnership between Population Data BC, the University of Victoria, Division of Continuing Studies and the Department of Geography.

Apply now for the fully online Professional Specialization Certificate in Population Health Data Analysis (PHDA) or take up to two stand-alone courses for professional development.

Please review eligibility requirements before applying.

For more information contact:
Melissa Payne, Program Coordinator, UVic Continuing Studies, Phone: 250-721-8779

 

epidemiological statistics

  

health services monitoring and evaluation

Course Instructor: Allison Scott, Data Scientist, Alberta Blue Cross

Epidemiological Stats (PHDA 02) is a basic course in epidemiology which also covers a variety of analytic topics not commonly addressed in elementary statistics courses. Students will critically evaluate articles in the epidemiologic literature and examine epidemiologic methods including:

  • data collection
  • study design and statistical analysis
  • ratios
  • relative risk
  • contingency tables
  • logistic and Poisson
  • measurement error and exposure misclassification
  • imputation of missing values
  • multilevel regression models in epidemiology
  

Course Instructor: Marla Steinberg, a professional evaluator with over 25 years of experience

Health Services Monitoring & Evaluation (PHDA 06) provides hands-on, project-based instruction on the concepts, processes and tools for monitoring and evaluating health services and programs.

It covers:

  • engaging stakeholders
  • developing evaluation and monitoring questions
  • theories of change and logic models
  • selecting indicators and data collection methods and tools
  • reporting; and ethics and quality assurance in monitoring and evaluation