PUBH 5470 - Spatial Epidemiology and Geographical Studies of Health

(3 credits)

Prerequisites: PUBH 5310 and PUBH 5400 or equivalent content. This course instructs students in the special application of geographic pathology and data analysis techniques to interface with Geographic Information Systems. Much of the course content rests upon a grasp of epidemiological reasoning, e.g., outbreak investigation. The course focuses on non-parametric methods, for both exploratory analyses and peculiar data configurations. Emphasis is also placed on analyses using the techniques from the specialized software: CLUSTER. Advanced methods of analysis associated with contemporary surveillance applications are previewed (e.g., SATSCAN, BIOSENSE).

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