Module Description

Module Lead: Prof Carol Dezateux (c.dezateux@qmul.ac.uk)

The module provides an introduction to health data in practice with a focus on health care delivery challenges and patient and population health outcomes from an interdisciplinary perspective.  It will provide you with a grounding in legal and ethical frameworks governing health data access and use, and the role of patient, health professional and public engagement for delivering the full potential of health data sciences for public benefit.

Learning Aims and Outcomes

By introducing you to the attributes of health data and methodological innovations across different disciplines for its analysis and interpretation, as well as the ethical and legal frameworks and public perspectives on its use, the module will help you to draw on multi-disciplinary human-centred approaches to develop research that informs health data in practice.  In doing so, it equips you with the critical appraisal skills and knowledge required to develop a research proposal for their dissertation at the appropriate level for this degree.

MODULE EXPECTATIONS

TEACHING ARRANGEMENTS

Each lecture is based on the week’s topic. 

SEMINARS

These are the core learning experience of the module. 

How you engage with seminars, is therefore crucial to your success.

• Review lecture notes and use the recommended reading list to enhance your understanding of the week’s topic.
  
• Complete the post-seminar task ahead of the following seminar as the task will be discussed and reflected on within the next session.

Tip: Make it a goal to read one extra item a week.