Public Health Analytics Course, Georgia Tech
Category : Student Opportunities
The course presents students with a comprehensive data analytics framework used in healthy communities’ research and practice. The course focuses on measuring the three key social determinants of healthy (SDOH) communities— 1) the built environment, 2) social environment, and 3) access to healthcare. Students will learn to integrate spatial methods with applied statistics and use a variety of software packages including JMP, ArcGIS, and GeoDa. The methods taught in the course are widely applicable to various professional contexts outside of Public Health as well. Students will learn how to execute the entire life-cycle of a data analytics project including problem formulation, data preparation, exploratory analysis, modeling, and visualization in preparation for geospatial data science careers.
About the Instructor: Dr. Arthi Rao, Associate Director of CHHS, has an interdisciplinary educational and professional background in Urban Planning, Epidemiology and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and is a certified GIS professional (GISP). Dr. Rao’s portfolio includes a focus on social/spatial analytics, as applied to healthy communities’ research and practice. She uses methods including spatial clustering, spatial regression, and multilevel modeling in her research. She has integrated these methods to create decision-support tools for academic and industrial applications. She currently serves as PI on an NSF grant to optimize access to healthcare, and the Co-PI for the NAACFRC in partnership with the Morehouse School of Medicine, providing students with opportunities to engage with analytics on the forefront of social/spatial epidemiology and healthy communities’ research. Email: arthir [at] gatech [dot] edu
This course will be held on Friday from 2:00 – 4:45 p.m.
While this is an undergraduate class and will not count toward your MPH, you can still consider enrolling in it via the ARCHE program (a free exchange program w/other Atlanta universities). The cross-registration deadline for spring ARCHE classes is Nov 15.
