Testimonials

Testimonials

All testimonials below come from previous Graduate Summer Institute student course evaluations over the last two years (2024-2025).

Epidemiologic Inference in Public Health I

"The course was very well organized, with each lecture building progressively on foundational epidemiologic concepts. The integration of theory with practical examples made the learning both accessible and applicable."

"The online lectures were very well done. They were clear and thoroughly explained the course material."

"The course was incredibly well organized, lecture were clear thoughtful and well-delivered. Activities helped enhance and reinforce topic materials and reviews for exams and practice questions were incredibly helpful."

"Really excellent course that had the ability to teach and reinforce concepts in a virtual environment. The applied pre-activities were very useful."

Artificial Intelligence for Improved Patient Outcomes 

"It was enlightening to the patient-focused side healthcare technology, especially in the realm of clinical trials."

"This has been a valuable course for me. The opportunity to learn from experts and interact with participants from diverse backgrounds enriched my understanding and sparked new ideas for applying AI in healthcare settings."

"The course provided important insights into the use of AI and sparked curiosity to continue studying the topic. The greatest strength of this course is to disprove common beliefs about how AI is intended to be used."

Epidemiology of Aging

"Excellent course."

"I really appreciated the breadth of topics this course went into related to aging."

Introduction to Data Management

"In addition to the helpful and relevant content, I appreciated all the strategies and tips for optimizing effective use of these programs (e.g. best practices for organizing data, creating data labels, naming projects/datasets to track versions)."

"This course included walk throughs of so many tangible skills to use in data management/research. Additionally, many additional resources for the skills were provided for us on CoursePlus. I will be going through/referring back to the resources provided by this class for a long time."

"Lots of hands-on work that I can apply to my job."

Multilevel Models

"This is an excellent topic. The concepts are very important since we directly use this to analyze most of the research proposal."

"The instructor and the TA were both excellent, they were both very knowledgeable and ready to help us when we made millions of mistakes."

Leveraging Electronic Health Records (EHR) Data: Opportunities and Challenges for Evidence Generation

"The course content is very approachable, straightforward, and provides a good balance between practical data science aspects and statistical approaches to working with EHR data.”

Power and Sample Size for the Design of Epidemiological Studies I & II

"Drawing on real-world examples to illustrate concepts."

"The course was perfect in terms of giving a refresher on stats and explaining the theory behind PSS without being overwhelming and focusing on the actual scenarios and calculations. I loved the teaching style and practical, clear way of explaining things - particularly the main instructor Dr. Kong. Going over the calculations using R, Stata, etc. was the best part, since that's almost always how we will do it in real life."

"Appreciate the step by step instructions for coding."

Epidemiologic Approaches to Hearing Loss and Public Health

"Multi-disciplinary approach; great assessments that allowed us to process and apply the content."

"If you are interested in systematic review and meta-analysis, take it, you won't regret it, its worth it."

"Even as someone coming from outside of the field as I felt the instructors conveyed each point very clearly."

"I’d recommend it to anyone who is interested in clinical research methods/ the collaboration between epidemiologists and clinicians to conduct public health research."

"The course was very well organized, and I found it helpful that the lectures tracked across the different stages of the systematic review and meta-analysis process. The instructors provided ample breaks between sessions, which helped with engagement in an online course. The instructors were very knowledgeable in the content area, and provided engaging and in-depth lectures."

Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers

"This course is excellent. I had zero knowledge of R prior to the course and I learned so much in such a short time. I appreciated the implementation of this course, the pacing of the material, and the availability of resources. The course instructors were all so kind and helpful, especially given the accelerated pace of this course! I found their instruction to be extremely valuable."

"The instructors are friendly, engaging, and very helpful. Class does not feel like a typical course in a good way; instructors clearly enjoyed teaching the class. The course moves at a good pace and is well organized; there is nice balance between lectures and labs. Appropriate 'real-world' examples are used to practice skills and skills build on one another, which helps to reiterate skills."

"Really great hands on experience in R. I wanted to develop my data analysis skills and I feel like this course will open doors for me and elevate my resume. The course was taught in a very accessible way if you don't have much experience with programming."

Advanced Data Analysis Workshop

"I appreciate the opportunity to learn coding, and the instructor provided their codebase as well for us to reference after the class. I also like the time for labs with the opportunity to ask questions while working independently!"

"Great material. It's not easy, but it's rewarding."

"I really appreciated the breadth of the content in the course."

Implementation Science Concepts, Methods & Study Designs

"The instructors were outstanding—they were helpful, provided timely and constructive feedback, and made themselves available. Overall, a great experience!"

"I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to strengthen their public health practice through a rigorous and context-sensitive approach."

"The course on implementation research has been an incredibly enriching experience, both conceptually and practically."

Foundations of Social Epidemiology

"The course design was balanced with course discussion, participation, testing, student communication, and writing. The focus was on demonstrating synthesis of the material and learning objectives. This is the best designed course that I have taken at Johns Hopkins."

"Besides the content being so original and useful for me (i.e., not a mere review), I truly appreciate the structure of this course. This course was incredibly organized, and really well paced. I enjoyed the quizzes that followed each lecture as they not only helped me identify key concepts to remember, but held me accountable for each week’s lesson. I also appreciate how lectures are open by the week, which makes it extremely clear as to what lecture set I should be approaching per week. This course was nothing short of amazing. I truly wish I had the opportunity to take this course as an eight-week course. I enjoyed the polling component of each live lecture, as well as the discussion that always followed. I would highly recommend this course and Dr. Dean to other DrPH students."

Methods for Clinical and Translational Research

"For such a short course, it was so well organized, and Dr. Matsushita kept the course on schedule as well as providing a rich learning environment. I was really impressed."

"Great course to understand complex data translation, and interpretation."

"The class had a lot of real world examples and problems, which I found to be very meaningful. I liked the teaching team, they were engaging and very engaging."

Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis 

"The instructors were excellent. Especially liked the fact that they simplified a lot of concepts for us, understanding the fact that some of us are brand new to this domain."

"I recommend this for anyone interested in research, whether or not they would like to be involved in systematic reviews. The instructors are very approachable."

"The course was interactive and the lecture package was easy to understand, contributing to productive discussions during the lessons."