Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers
Overview
Welcome to Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers!
This course is for students who have little to no familiarity with the R programming language and want to learn more about how to use R to import, wrangle, visualize, and analyze data.
The course will provide students with “hands-on” training for analyzing data with the R programming language for statistical computing, a popular open-source solution for data analysis and visualization.
Instructors
Ahmed Sabit (ahmed.sabit at jhu.edu), Clifton McKee (cmckee7 at jhu.edu)
Teaching Assistant
Bella Satpathy-Horton (ghorton2 at jhmi.edu)
Class
- June 8-19th, 2026 8:30 am - 11:50 am ET on Zoom
- (In recognition of Juneteenth, there will be no class on June 19th.)
- Zoom link will be emailed prior to the first class.
- Installation Instructions - This is required before the course, but we can help you on the first day (or before) if you have trouble.
- Slack Workspace invitation will be sent directly via email.
- CoursePlus Website
- Syllabus
- Materials + Schedule
- Resources
Testimonials
“Thanks all for a wonderful course! I feel super confident in R now and I am excited to apply what we learned to future projects. Cheers !!”
“I feel like a data witch now! I just say poof and the data looks the way I want”
“OK - this is getting to be too much fun now”
“My 14 year old thinks this class looks cool and wants to take it (she’s a wanna be engineer)”
Find an Error!?
Feel free to submit typos/errors/etc via the GitHub repository associated with the class: https://github.com/jhudsl/intro_to_r
This page was last updated on 2026-06-11.
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