Colleagues,
Welcome to Public Health Informatics & Global Population Health.
I know exactly what your day looks like. You are coming to this course straight from the clinic, navigating tumor boards, patient charts, and a fragmented health system. You spend your days fighting fires for the individual patient sitting directly in front of you.
This week, I am asking you to zoom out.
We are shifting our focus from the individual (N=1) to the entire population (N=10,000). Over the next four weeks, we will use our anchor case study—the Imo State Cervical Cancer Screening Initiative—to explore how we can use informatics as a macro-diagnostic tool to fix the systemic leaks that result in late-stage clinical presentations.
Your Commitment This Week: ~2 Hours We have stripped away the academic bloat. Everything here is designed to be immediately actionable.
- Watch: Video 1: Zooming Out and Video 2: Navigating Our Data Ecosystem (15 mins total).
- Engage: Jump into the Discussion Forum. Let’s talk honestly about the gap between patient-level and population-level decision-making.
- Submit: Download the Week 1 Job Aid below and complete your "Data Ecosystem Mapping" assignment.
- Reflection Activity: Complete this reflection activity.
Thank you for being here, and for the work you do daily. Let’s get started.