Skills you'll gain

Specialization - 5 course series

Each course in this specialization will feature a data applications component, in which students will have the chance to practice using R to analyze, display, and interpret social determinants of health data using NHANES and Omaha System datasets. Students will then have the chance to apply these skills to their own datasets as part of a peer-reviewed assignment

1. Introduction to the Social Determinants of Health 2. Theoretical Perspectives and Knowledge Complexity 3. Data Driven Collective Impact 4. Minority Stress Theory 5. Data Applications: Frequency Analysis and Bar Chart Visualization

1. Poverty 2. Women’s Health 3. Gender and LGBTQI+ Health 4. Family Health 5. Data Applications: t-test Analysis and Box Plot Visualization

1. Health Literacy 2. Mental Health & Substance Abuse 3. Violence, Conflict, and Trauma 4. Ethical Considerations for Health Systems and Data 5. Data Applications: Correlation Analysis and Heat Map Visualization

1. Community-Based Participatory Research 2. Team Science 3. Community-Level Data 4. Informatics and the Social Determinants of Health: Knowledge Management 5. Data Applications: ANOVA Analysis and Line Graph Visualization

1. Introduction to Planetary Health 2. Values and Sources of Knowledge 3. Action and Movement Building 4. Foresight 5. Data Applications: Regression Analysis and Scatter Plot Visualization

Social Determinants of Health: Vulnerable Populations

Social Determinants of Health: Health Care Systems

Social Determinants of Health: Methodological Opportunities

Social Determinants of Health: Planetary Health