This is a continuing professional development course available to North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (AHECs). Learn more about the Gillings School’s partnership with NC AHEC and see our full continuing professional development catalog.

Choosing and Accessing Data Sources

Target Audience

Public health professionals; administrators; nonprofits; those that gather and share community data; and anyone that wants to strengthen or expand their background in collecting, analyzing and communicating population health data in support of healthy communities.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify commonly used data sites and their features.
  • Describe the pros/cons of common data sources.

Description

In this course, we will discuss some example of available data sources and the type of information available from each source. We will review ways of accessing data from each source. We will also discuss some of the data gaps of each data source.


Details

Duration

3 hours

Formats Available

Live webinar
In-person


Instructor Information

Alison Singer, PhD
Community Assessment Analyst and Advisor
North Carolina Institute for Public Health

Adrienne Hall, MPH, PhD(c)
Spatial and Data Analyst
North Carolina Institute for Public Health


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Local AHECs can request this course by completing our request form.

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