AINS6101: Predictive Analytics in Population Health

AINS6101: Predictive Analytics in Population Health#

Aurnova MSAI track: Healthcare AI
Credits: 3
Format: 8-week online graduate course

Uses AI and statistical models for risk stratification, forecasting, interventions, equity, and public-health governance.

This course follows the Aurnova/Castalia course-site pattern used by AINS6003: each module includes book prose, an assignment notebook, slide notebook, narration, instructor notes, and an executable lab.

Course Outcomes#

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • explain the major concepts and tradeoffs in Predictive Analytics in Population Health;

  • build or evaluate applied AI artifacts aligned with the course domain;

  • document assumptions, evidence, limitations, and operational risks;

  • connect technical work to governance, stakeholder needs, and deployment readiness.

Module Map#

  1. Population health data ecosystems — What data sources describe health at population scale?

  2. Risk stratification and prediction — How are patients grouped for intervention?

  3. Causal inference and confounding — Why is prediction not the same as cause?

  4. Forecasting and surveillance — How do models support trend detection?

  5. Equity and social determinants — How do models account for structural health drivers?

  6. Intervention targeting and evaluation — How should interventions be prioritized and measured?

  7. Privacy and public-health governance — What safeguards are required for sensitive population data?

  8. Population analytics portfolio — What evidence supports a public-health recommendation?