1 Course: Introduction to R:


Equivalent to 3 ECTS

Will cover. ….

1.1 Planned lessons

  1. Oh what a wonde-R-ful world! An introduction to the wonders of R.

  2. Vectors & data types: Extracting positional information

  3. ….

1.3 Delivery modes

  • Videos. Some curated (such as the ones here rpubs.com/kenwosu/learning-r), some created.

  • Learnr tutorials. Some curated, come created. (many examples linked here) (with the ability to view raw files on renku. As done here). Could also take inspiration from RTutor: ucb-epi-r.github.io

  • Flipbooks (some curated, some created)

  • Reading links. E.g. from

  • Quizzes: Some built-in learndash quizzes. (such as this one)

  • 3 capstone projects that use the lessons learned to do some analytic tasks. The first two will be problem sets. The last will be a report. These will have no solutions on the website and will be graded by hired tutors. 

1.4 Datasets to use

  • DHS

  • Malawi STEPS?

  • Yaounde COVID seroprevalence survey data.

How long to build this? Maybe ~ 2 months of full-time work?

2 Course: R for epidemic reporting (COVID in Colombia, Brazil):

Equivalent to 3 ECTS (half a semester of work)

This course will use the analysis demo (file:///Users/kenwosu/Desktop/WHO%20AFRO/Analysis_Demo_files/Analysis_demo.html)[]local file) we created for WHO Afro. But will use Colombian data and Brazilian data instead. https://global.health/deepdive/colombia

Will consist primarily of:

  • Custom videos (Maybe ~ 6 hours of video content. Like Hefin Rhys videos on Youtube. Start with blank Rmarkdown and type everything live). (Or datacamp style. Quick intro video per chapter?)

  • Then same as the above.

Lots of R markdown, ggplot content. Different outputs.

How long to build this? Maybe ~ 3 months of full-time work?

3 Course: Working with EpiGraphub

Equivalent to 2 ECTS (one third of a semester of work)

4 Course: Regression for Public Health:


Equivalent to 3 ECTS

Curriculum sources:

Datasets to use:

  • DHS

  • Malawi STEPS?

  • Yaounde COVID seroprevalence survey data.

5 FAQs

  • What is 3 ECTS? ECTS = European Credit Tranfer Sytem.

    1 ECTS corresponds to around 30 hours of student work.

    Most of our courses are 3 ECTS. That is 90 hours of work. (8 weeks of class for a class that meets once a week for 4 hours, for a total of 32 contact hours, and around 60 hours of homework time