After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Describe the relevance, potential, and challenges of spatial and digital epidemiological approaches to advance urban health research:
• Review concepts of geospatial data analysis and visualization
• Describe big geodata social media analytics for public health
- Apply robust spatial and digital epidemiological approaches towards addressing important urban health challenges:
• Analyse mental health outcomes as identified in social media
• Employ geo-processing (e.g., integrating geo-spatial social media information)
• Perform exploratory spatial data analysis (e.g., geo visualization and mapping)
• Apply spatial statistics (e.g., hotspot analysis, spatial regression)
- Develop a project with potential for real-world urban health impact using geospatial big data methods:
• Extend your multidisciplinary network
• Work more effectively in collaboration with other disciplines for investigating multidisciplinary health problems.
• Work more effectively in collaboration with
other disciplines for investigating multidisciplinary health problems.
