Canadian Research Data Centre Network

Online introductory course to methods in spatial epidemiology and disease outbreak detection. The spatial epidemiology portion focuses on assessing exposures in a geographical information system (GIS) for use in epidemiological studies. Students will learn about spatial health data and area socio-economic data, spatial exposure assessment methods, analytical approaches, and limitations of spatial epidemiology. Outbreak detection will cover different methods of space-time disease surveillance. More information at popdata.bc.ca/etu/PHDA