Program Overview

Program Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Health Data Analytics is offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences. This program is designed to provide solid quantitative training and essential statistical and computing skills needed to clean, manage, and analyze health science data to address important questions in public health and biomedical sciences.

Program Description

This 15-credit, 10-month program, running from September to June, consists of asynchronous, online teaching with optional synchronous components. The program consists of five courses; the first four courses provide core training in data management and analysis using R, foundations of statistical methods for data analysis, and reporting and presentation of results. The final capstone course is a guided project, in which students will synthesize knowledge gained in the first courses, develop a research question, analyze data and present their findings.

Unique Program Features

• Data science program focused on health data, as encountered in public health and biomedical sciences.
• Asynchronous courses to accommodate students who seek a flexible schedule or cannot be present in Montreal.
• Suitable for students who lack the rigorous mathematical preparation for McGill MSc and PhD programs in Biostatistics.

Admission Requirements

• An eligible Bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA out of a possible 4.0 GPA
• English-language proficiency

Available Intakes

• Fall

Application Deadlines

Program Details

• The program is designed for students with a quantitative or science background; some experience with statistics is helpful but not necessary.
• Keywords: Biostatistics, Data Science, Data Analysis, Statistical Programming, Health Sciences, Biomedical Sciences.