Public Health Informatics

This course provides foundational knowledge relevant to Public Health Informatics highlighting the history, current and future use of informatics in the public health settings, and gives students an understanding of the role and broad application of informatics to promoting health and preventing disease. Topics include the role of informatics in health promotion, use of informatics tools to understand behavior change, basic concepts of public health-specific communication, including technical and professional writing and will address the application of ethical principles that apply to the use of information technology as those pertain to accessing, collecting, analyzing, using, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.