Foundations of population health intelligence 7

*** This course is now full and both registration and waitlist have been closed. If you would like a place on a future course, please email scott.anderson@dhsc.gov.uk ***

Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) for the North East and Yorkshire, now part of the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (OHID), Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) are running this short course to provide an introduction to population health intelligence

This course will be useful for anyone new to public health, or needing a refresher on population health intelligence.

This course is open only to those working within the North East and Yorkshire.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this course, you will:

• understand basic concepts in population health intelligence
• know about the features of Fingertips, OHID's platform for public health data, and be able to use it to understand a public health issue
• be aware of other population health intelligence tools
• know about evidence and where to find it
• be able to put together intelligence and evidence to address a public health issue

Delivery:

This course consists of 3 e-learning modules which will each take about 30 minutes to complete:

• Introduction to Public Health Intelligence
• Understanding and measuring populations
• Assessing needs

followed by 2 interactive and hands-on workshop modules of 3 hours each, delivered virtually via MS Teams:

• Monday 18 July 1-4pm
• Tuesday 19 July 10-1pm

Confirmation of your place and joining instructions, including MS Teams invites and how to access the e-learning , will be sent out to successful applicants by early July. In the meantime, pending confirmation, please book out this time in your diary

Cost:

This course is free

Other:

Completion of the e-learning is a pre-requisite for attendance on the course and you are expected to attend both workshop modules

If this course is full, please add your name to the waiting list - we will contact you if a place becomes free and if not, put you on a priority mailing list for the next course. If you are interested in attending but can't make these dates, email scott.anderson@dhsc.gov.uk and we'll put you on the waiting list for the next one.