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R BASICS & BEYOND

INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH
DATA ANALYSIS
GRAPH Network Course Offer
The Learning Journey 03
Our Training Offer 04
Key Objectives of the Course 05
Module 1: R Foundations 06
Module 2: R Data Wrangling with dplyr 07
Module 3: R Data Visualisation with ggplot2 08
Weekly Course Schedule 09
Why Graph Courses 10
Is this Course for Me 11
Who We Are 12
Our Mentors and Creators 13
Certificate 14
Our Partners 15
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 R Basics & Beyond
Start your adventure
with epidata analysis

Become a part of a guided

cohort in the course "R Basics
and Beyond. An Introduction
to Health Data Analysis". This
3-month learning journey
will help you build strong
foundations in the RStudio
programming language, and
experience real data
analysis and reporting. Keep
a steady flow with weekly live
classes and study halls, get
personalized help, and
become a part of a
community of like-minded
professionals.

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 OUR TRAINING OFFER

INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH DATA ANALYSIS

A 3-MONTH PREMIUM GUIDED COURSE

Included in the course:

Structured study plan
Weekly live workshops
Real-life data exercises
Live study sessions in dedicated study halls
Private community forums
Personalized feedback
Sharable certificate

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 Advanced knowledge
of RStudio coding
environment, experience in
RMarkdown, data
visualisation with ggplot2
and data wrangling
In-depth understanding of
the principles of data
analysis for epidemiology
and its use in public health
environments
Hands-on experience with
real epidemiological data
sets
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Bringing together like-
minded people with interest
in data analysis oriented
career paths
Creating a project portfolio
demostrating advanced
practical skills in data
analysis
Empowering health professionals
and alleviating
bottlenecks in data
processing
MODULE 1
R FOUNDATIONS
This module will take you through the essential
elements of RStudio and R programming language to
lay foundations for more in-depth dive into the data
analysis subjects.

You will learn:

1. Installing R and RStudio
2. The RStudio Integrated Development Environment
3. Coding basics
4. Primary data dive
5. Creating projects in RStudio
6. What is RMarkdown
7. Data classes and structures
8. Subsetting data in R
9. Debugging and getting help

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 MODULE 2
DATA WRANGLING
WITH DPLYR
In this module you will learn how to effectively
manipulate data using dplyr package. You will
understand how to filter, mutate, group and summarize
your data to extract key insights and prepare data for
downstream analysis.

You will learn:

1. Selecting and renaming
2. Filtering data
3. Mutating
4. Conditional mutating
5. Grouping by and summarizing
6. Other grouped operations
7. Pivoting data

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 MODULE 3
DATA VISUALIZATION WITH
GGPLOT2
In this module you will master the most popular data
visualization package in R. You will learn how to create
stunning visualizations of your data using ggplot2. You
will also get to know EpiGraphHub Web Platform better.

You will learn:

1. Fundamentals of creating plots with ggplot2
2. Visualization strategies for univariate, bivariate, and
multivariate data
3. Scatterplots and line graphs for visualizing relationships
4. Histograms and boxplots for visualizing distributions
5. Simple, stacked, and grouped barplots
6. Time series plots of epidemic trends
7. Customizing labels, color palettes, themes, and more

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 COURSE SCHEDULE

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The COVID-19 crisis made it obvious that epidemic
preparedness remains a burning issue. At the height of the
pandemic, ministries of health worldwide were flooded with
epidemiological data but struggled to draw actionable
conclusions. A dire lack of skilled health data scientists
hindered much-needed rapid response activities.

That's why building dependable systems for epidemiological

resilience must become a priority in the post-pandemic
world. At the GRAPH Network, we decided to take the
knowledge, tools, and expertise we gained during the crisis
and use them to build systems of early disease control and
prevention. By providing state-of-the-art online training
courses in epidemiological data analysis we hope to build a
new cohort of highly qualified epidemiological data scientists.

Become one of them.

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 Are you a Master's or PhD student in Medicine, Epidemiology, or
Public Health? Or are you a public health professional, policy
maker, or project coordinator? Are you interested in data
science, programming, or statistics but have little to no
experience in the field?

Do you want to:

make better, more informed decisions

have a more profound understanding of epidata
make an impact on a local and global scale
create a successful career path in epidemiology or global
health
become a member of a driven, like-minded community

Then this course is designed especially for you!

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WHO WE ARE:

The Global Research and Analyses for Public Health (GRAPH)

Network is a multidisciplinary community of health
professionals and students from over 30 countries working in
the fields of epidemiology, data analysis, software
development, and education.

We were founded as part of a collaboration between the WHO

African Regional Office (WHO AFRO) and the University of
Geneva to support AFRO member states with data
management, analyses, and reporting during the acute
phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now we continue our work
within the frame of several projects such as LiteRev,
EpiGraphHub, GRAPH courses, and mathematical modeling for
infectious disease surveillance.

Visit us at: thegraphnetwork.org

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 Prof. Olivia Keiser Kene Nwosu
GRAPH Network GRAPH Course Director
Director Research Assistant
Head of the Infectious University of Geneva
Diseases & Mathematical
Modelling Division,
University of Geneva

Prof. Flavio Joy Vaz

Coelho GRAPH Instructor
R Developer, Health Data Analyst
EpiGraphHub Leader
University of Georgia
Associate professor of
Mathematical Epidemiology
Getulio Vargas Foundation,
Rio de Janeiro

Sara Botero Mesa Laure

GRAPH Course Vancauwenberghe
Coordinator GRAPH Instructor
Project coordinator Life Science Engineer
University of Geneva University of Geneva, SDSC

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Campus Biotech, Chemin des mines 9, 1202 Geneva

olivia.keiser@unige.ch
kenechukwu.nwosu.@unige.ch
fccoelho@gmail.com

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