Graduate Certificate in Health Data Analytics 1
The department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health is excited to announce a new Graduate Certificate in Health Data Analytics. The Graduate certificate will provide students with training in data analysis, computation, visualization, and presentation of data. Students will learn to clean, manage, and analyze health science data and to present data and results clearly and reproducibly. Students will be prepared to address important questions in public health and biomedical sciences.
This 15-credit, 10-month program, running from September to June, consists of asynchronous, online teaching with optional synchronous components, such as virtual office hours and small group work. Virtual office hours and small group meetings will be offered to maximize access according to students’ time zones and schedules; students will alternatively be permitted to submit video presentations in lieu of live presentations. This asynchronous and fully online mode of delivery and the lack of any mandatory in-person attendance will serve to accommodate those students unable to be physically present at McGill or accommodate a more traditional learning schedule.
This program is oriented towards students with a quantitative or science background. Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in a quantitative or science field (e.g., economics, biology, physics, biology), with a minimum 3.2 GPA. Some exposure to statistics in the undergraduate degree is helpful but not essential; there are no formal course prerequisites.
Content
The program consists of five courses; the first four courses provide core training in data management and analysis using R, foundations of statistical methods for data analysis, and reporting and presentation of results. The final capstone course is a guided project, in which students will synthesize knowledge gained in the first courses, develop a research question, analyze data and present their findings.
Career Opportunities
There is substantial demand for the skills the graduate certificate provides, in government, the pharmaceutical industry, consulting, contract research organizations (CROs), and in academic research centres, both in Canada and worldwide. Graduates will be prepared to work on clinical trials, on genomic data, and on real-world observational data.
About the Department
The department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health includes one of the largest concentrations of biostatisticians and data scientists in Canada. Our faculty have won multiple awards for research and teaching. Faculty have expertise in machine learning, statistical computing, analysis of longitudinal data, causal inference, Bayesian statistics in medicine, statistical methods for clinical trials, statistical genetics and genomics, Bayesian disease mapping, infectious disease modelling, and the design and analysis of epidemiologic studies.