Courses

This course provides the student the opportunity to develop competencies in the conceptualization, design, analysis, communication and evaluation of health informatics research studies. It exposes the student to theoretical approaches to and practical...

This course will examine the relationship between Law and Ethics and Health Informatics System with regards to: Collection, processing, transmission, and dissemination of
information. The concepts that would be covered include: Privacy, autonomy,...

For both semesters, students in the Health Informatics programme are expected to attend all departmental student seminars, where students are made to give at least one presentation on a review article which, may or may not be in their area of intended...

This course begins with an overview of Health Information Technology (HIT) and the e-health strategy of Ghana. HIT applications are presented with a focus on the different clients of information systems including clinicians, pharmacists, nurses and hospitals...

The course covers sample size determination, and the sampling methods used to collect survey data and how they affect the estimation of totals, ratios, and regression coefficients as well as many survey variance estimators, including linearization, balanced...

This course provides an overview of the major issues in research including key concepts in research methods appropriate to the investigation of problems in public health. It teaches students to formulate testable research hypotheses, utilize appropriate study...

This course is primarily intended for the students who have attended the Semester 1 course in Methods in Biostatistics, and are familiar with Stata and who wish to acquire further skills in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies.  The...

The course introduces the basic statistical concepts and methods as applied to diverse problems in public health, medicine and clinical trials. It demonstrates methods of exploring, organizing, and presenting data, and introduces fundamentals of probability,...

This course introduces basic statistical concepts and methods as applied to diverse problems in public health. It also introduced students to the basic data handling commands in Stata. Topics to be covered are: an introduction to classical inference including...

This course expands on the student’s abilities to conduct and report the results of valid statistical analysis of quantitative medical/health information by focusing on multiple linear regression, two
way analysis of variance models, covariance...