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A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice
by Dr Matthew Harris- 4.6
Approx. 20 hours to complete
This course reflects on global health challenges and the role of innovative solutions in addressing them. By engaging in this course, you will be able to describe the principles and key types of innovation in order to characterise the fundamental features of new models of care and technologies. This course will review the basic features and principles of healthcare innovation....
Healthcare Entrepreneurship: Taking Ideas to Market
by Dr Matthew Harris- 4.6
Approx. 26 hours to complete
This course delves into intellectual property (IP) with an introduction into the innovation landscape within the UK and how that compares with other settings. You'll focus on how intellectual property applies to frugal innovations, compulsory licensing, and when and how to apply for intellectual property. INVESTING IN INNOVATION Welcome to Global Health Innovation...
Healthcare Innovation: What Does Success Look Like and How to Achieve It?
by Dr Matthew Harris- 4.7
Approx. 21 hours to complete
This course focuses on the factors involved in the adoption of innovation - features, organizations, country of origin, cognitive, normative and affective aspects, change agents. Using real-world health innovations, you'll assess what impacts their scaleability to new contexts, how organizational and human characteristics affect adoption, to what extent diffusion of an innovation is influenced by unconscious bias....
Summary Statistics in Public Health
by John McGready, PhD, MS- 4.8
Approx. 15 hours to complete
Biostatistics is the application of statistical reasoning to the life sciences, and it is the key to unlocking the data gathered by researchers and the evidence presented in the scientific literature. In this course, we'll focus on the use of statistical measurement methods within the world of public health research. The Role of Statistics in Public Health Research...
Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health
by Alex Bottle- 4.7
Approx. 16 hours to complete
Welcome to Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health! You'll then have a solid grounding to move on to more sophisticated analysis and take the other courses in the series. You'll learn the popular, flexible and completely free software R, used by statistics and machine learning practitioners everywhere. Prerequisites...
Hypothesis Testing in Public Health
by John McGready, PhD, MS- 4.8
Approx. 19 hours to complete
Biostatistics is an essential skill for every public health researcher because it provides a set of precise methods for extracting meaningful conclusions from data. In this second course of the Biostatistics in Public Health Specialization, you'll learn to evaluate sample variability and apply statistical hypothesis testing methods. Sampling Distributions and Standard Errors...
Measuring Disease in Epidemiology
by Filippos Filippidis- 4.7
Approx. 10 hours to complete
Epidemiological research is ubiquitous. Even if you don’t realise it, you come across epidemiological studies and the impact of their findings every single day. You have probably heard that obesity is increasing in high income countries or that malaria is killing millions of people in low income countries. Measures of disease frequency...
Linear Regression in R for Public Health
by Alex Bottle , Victoria Cornelius- 4.8
Approx. 15 hours to complete
Welcome to Linear Regression in R for Public Health! Public Health has been defined as “the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society”. Knowing what causes disease and what makes it worse are clearly vital parts of this. INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR REGRESSION...
Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing
by Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH , Elizabeth C. Lee, PhD , Lucy D’Agostino McGowan , Kyra Grantz , Justin Lessler, PhD, MS- 4.5
Approx. 3 hours to complete
This course aims to provide managers and developers of contact tracing programs guidance on the most important indicators of performance of a contact tracing program, and a tool that can be used to project the likely impact of improvements in specific indicators. Measuring indicators of impact in contact tracing Welcome to Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing...
Simple Regression Analysis in Public Health
by John McGready, PhD, MS- 4.7
Approx. 14 hours to complete
Biostatistics is the application of statistical reasoning to the life sciences, and it's the key to unlocking the data gathered by researchers and the evidence presented in the scientific public health literature. Along the way, you'll be introduced to a variety of methods, and you'll practice interpreting data and performing calculations on real data from published studies....