Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Introduction to R for Epidemiological Analysis
UK Health Security Agency and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
This course has been developed for field epidemiologists and surveillance team at Africa CDC and other public health institutes across the world. The aim of the course is to give an overview of the basic concepts and practical elements of R for epidemiology.
2 weeks, 5 hours per week
Dr Hibo Asad
Field Epidemiologist
UK Health Security Agency
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Set up and run R
- Install and load up R packages
- Clean and manage messy datasets
- Summarise the cleaned analysis dataset
- Produce data visualisations e.g. epi-curves and maps
Syllabus
- Introduction to R (i.e. using R objects and importing data)
- Data management and cleaning (i.e. joining and reshaping data)
- Building, summarising and visualising an analysis dataset
- Creating maps using spatial data in R
- Independent project work in R
Issued on 13th January 2026
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