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Graduate Certificate in Health Data Science 

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Graduate Certificate in Health Data Science
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Northwestern University 
Overview

Understand the difference between the uses of statistical models for statistical inference versus predictive modeling

Duration

12 months

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Total fee

18,996

Mode of learning

Online

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PG Certificate

Graduate Certificate in Health Data Science
 at 
Northwestern University 
Highlights

  • Earn a graduate certificate of completion from Northwestern University
  • Learn from expert faculty
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Graduate Certificate in Health Data Science
 at 
Northwestern University 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare practitioners interested in leveraging data science to improve patient outcomes, streamline processes, or enhance healthcare delivery
What are the course deliverables?
  • Identify the multiple sources of healthcare data generation
  • Perform basic statistical analysis of health data sets in R Studio
  • Develop statistical modeling as a process that includes exploratory health data analysis, model identification, and model validation
  • Understand the difference between the uses of statistical models for statistical inference versus predictive modeling
  • Identify and explain the layers of the grammar of graphics, select effective static data visualizations, write R code to manipulate data visualizations, and construct their own compelling visualizations from scratch using health data
More about this course
  • This graduate certificate provides foundational data science skills (R programming, statistical analysis, data modeling) that are increasingly essential for many industries, but also adds exposure to and practice with the unique complexities of health data and the care that must be taken in handling them
  • Courses in statistical analysis and predictive modeling provide hands-on experience analyzing real health data sets, which are often messy and unstructured, while courses in data visualization and health analytics leadership emphasize how to effectively communicate analytics insights to stakeholders across an organization

Graduate Certificate in Health Data Science
 at 
Northwestern University 
Curriculum

Introduction to American Healthcare, Digital Health, and Analytics

Statistical Analysis

Regression and Multivariate Analysis

Data Visualization and Storytelling OR MSHA 480: Health Analytics Leadership

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Graduate Certificate in Health Data Science
 at 
Northwestern University 
Faculty details

Christina Maimone
Christina Maimone is a data scientist with Northwestern University IT Research Computing Services, where she leads a team that supports researchers in learning data science, data visualization, and computer programming skills and applying them in their research.
Imran Khan
Imran Khan currently serves as the Director and Head of Digital Health Innovation & Capabilities at AbbVie Biopharmaceuticals, where he is responsible for spearheading the strategy, development, and deployment of the digital technologies and capabilities needed to deliver on the vision for Digital Health of our clinical trials globally.

Graduate Certificate in Health Data Science
 at 
Northwestern University 
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Graduate Certificate in Health Data Science
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