2-credit-hour course. This course covers the use of secondary data in epidemiology, public health, and health economics. Students will learn about major secondary data sources?including EHRs, claims databases, registries, and surveys?and gain skills in data handling, cleaning, integration, quality assessment, and analysis.
The course also addresses applications in research and economic evaluations, ethical and regulatory considerations, and advanced data handling for complex datasets, preparing students to critically evaluate and utilize secondary data in research and policy.