NEWS

New Data Access Request form – applying for data easier than ever

Applications for administrative data for research just became much easier in British Columbia thanks to a collaborative effort  ... more

Few seats still available for summer workshops

There are still a few seats available for these summer workshops in Multilevel and Hierarchical Linear Modeling (July 5-9) and An Introduction to Bayesian Disease Mapping (July 29-30)  ... more

Admin Data 101 workshop now online!

This free workshop explains the basics of what administrative data are, where they come from, how they can be used for research, what the data produced for a research project actually look like and what skills are needed to work with them ... more

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Education and Training Unit

The Education and Training Unit (ETU) is an analysis training centre supporting research on human health, well-being and development, responding to the training and education needs of British Columbia’s researchers.


Online training courses:

  • GIS and Epie 101 (coming soon)
  • Spatial Epidemiology (coming soon)
  • Space-Time Disease Surveillance (coming soon)

 

We offer workshops and online training courses in three areas:

WORKING WITH POPDATA BC ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

HEALTH GEOMATICS (GIS)

STATISTICS FOR POPULATION HEALTH ANALYSIS

In addition to the courses above, additional resources can be found below:

BEST PRACTICES & HOW TO DOCUMENTS

 


We are able to deliver our courses to researchers around the province using our mobile computer lab. If you are interested in Population Data BC running any of these courses specifically for your organisation, please contact us for further details.

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