The Department of Public Health offers an interdisciplinary minor in Population Health Informatics and Technology.
The fields of population health informatics and technology have rapidly evolved due to COVID-19, current trends in substance use, readily available artificial intelligence, and other factors. The interdisciplinary Population Health Informatics and Technology minor addresses some of these knowledge gaps by providing students with a foundation in public health and health informatics and information technology. Students will work with their Population Health Informatics and Technology advisor to select from electives in departments across the university to help them gain additional technical skills or health science knowledge, including substance use.
The minor in Population Health Informatics and Technology consists of 18 credits. At least 6 credits must be completed at the 3000-4000 level.
Required courses (12 credits)
- PHIT.2031 Introduction to Public Health Informatics
- PHIT.2030 Health Information Technology
- PHIT.3030 / PHIT.3031 Public Health Emergency Preparedness / Seminar on Applications of Big Data to Addictions Research
- PUBH.1021 Introduction to Public Health
Electives (6 credits)
Students need to work with their advisor to select electives. They cannot take elective courses from the college that houses their major.
College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Science
- CRIM.3970 Crime Mapping
- CRIM.3980 Criminal Justice Data Analysis
- CRIM.4010 Substance Abuse and Crime
- PHIL.3106 Public Health Ethics
Kennedy College of Sciences
- ATMO.2500 Environmental Data Analysis using Python
- CHEM.1030 Chemistry of Mind-Altering Drugs for Non-Scientists
- COMP.1080 Intro to App Design and Mobile Comp
- ENVI.3010 Geographic Information System (GIS) in Earth and Environmental Sciences
- INFO.2030 Introduction to Programming with Python
- INFO.2310 Graphics for Multimedia and the World Wide Web
- INFO.2480 Website Database Implementation
- INFO.3850 Introduction to Information Security
- MATH.3630 Intro to Data Analysis
Manning School of Business
- MKTG.4110 Marketing Analytics
- MIST.3030 Database Management Systems
- MIST.3040 Data Communications and Networks
- MIST.4060 Data Mining for Business Intelligence
- POMS.2010 Introduction to Business Analytics
- POMS.4050 Predictive Data Analytics
Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences
- HSCI.2220 Health and Disease Across the Lifespan
- HSCI.3080 Global Health
- HSCI.3400 IPE Research Methods
- PUBH.2050 Social Determinants of Health
- PUBH.2070 The U.S. Healthcare System
- PUBH.2080 Principles of Environmental Health Science
- PUBH.3010 Introduction to Biostatistics
- PUBH.3050 Introduction to Epidemiology
For more information, contact the Department of Public Health.