PUBH 5600 - Informatics & Social Media in Public Health

3 credit hours

Informatics, social media, social informatics, and technology advance the ways in which we gather, organize, analyze and apply data to public health challenges. In this course, students will examine multiple forms of these modalities, discuss data standards, privacy concerns, database management, data sharing, and policy surrounding data. Students will also become familiar with some of the common databases used by public health practitioners, and ways that social media and social informatics can be used to address social determinants of health.