Training
Public health training centers
Public Health Training Center Network https://phtcn.org This site links to 10 regional training centers, each of which offers free training on various topics.
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice http://www.nwcphp.org/training search for epidemiology or program planning and evaluation https://www.nwcphp.org/training/training-search
Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center https://r6scphtc.tulane.edu has on line classes on needs assessment and evaluation, and other topics. See the list here https://pace.tulane.edu/courses
American Evaluation Association
American Evaluation Association's blog http://aea365.org/blog/ with short blog entries on a wide variety of topics.
Statistics Canada
Data literacy training https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/wtc/data-literacy a whole bunch of videos on a wide variety of statistical topics.
See their catalogue https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/wtc/data-literacy/catalogue
Some examples include
Analysis 101: How to read a table https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/wtc/data-literacy/catalogue/892000062023002
Data visualization: an introduction https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/wtc/data-literacy/catalogue/892000062020014
These are also organized along a data learning path https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/wtc/data-literacy/catalogue/learning-path
Others
On line classes
Action Research and Action Learning http://www.aral.com.au/ has an on line learning class http://www.aral.com.au/areol/areolind.html This on line class is a 14-week public courseoffered twice a year as a public service by ALARA (Action Learning Action Research Association Inc). Teacher is Bob Dick. The email version was discontinued at the end of 2023, but some of the material is still available on the website.
CDC has the following: Public Health 101 Series — A set of courses that provides an introduction to public health and covers the sciences essential to public health practice. https://www.cdc.gov/training-publichealth101/php/index.html
One of the classes, for example, is Introduction to Epidemiology https://www.cdc.gov/training-publichealth101/php/training/introduction-to-epidemiology.html
Carnegie Mellon has an Open Learning Initiative http://oli.cmu.edu/ with a couple of statistics classes.
Causal and Statistical Reasoning https://oli.cmu.edu/courses/causal-and-statistical-reasoning-open-free/
Probability & Statistics https://oli.cmu.edu/courses/probability-statistics-open-free/
The Global Health Learning Center http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/ Prepared by some folks at Measure. This site had been funded by USAID in the past.
NextGenU https://nextgenu.org free online classes about health science, including at least one class on biostatistics, and one class on research methods. Just to comment, I don't know anything about nextgenu.
Khan academy has a section on high school statistics https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability and statistics and probability https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability
U Minnesota has online courses http://learning.umn.edu/publicViewHome.do?method=load no credit or certificate. Can get certificate for $10. I found one class for statistics
MIT has open courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm some of which appear to be just class notes, sometimes videos. Search for "statistics" for example. I found this class on introduction to statistics: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-650-statistics-for-applications-fall-2016/lecture-videos/lecture-1-introduction-to-statistics/
Open University has free online classes http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue I found one on epidemiology in the Health, Sports and Psychology section, and the Science and Math section has at least one on data: graphs and tables.
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has a Virtual Campus for Public Health https://campus.paho.org/en One class, for example, is Intro to Epi https://campus.paho.org/en/course/epidemiology-americas_introduction-level
School of Data http://schoolofdata.org/ From the Open Knowledge Foundation and Peer to Peer University. Has a few related classes, such as data cleaning, and data presentation.
TEPHINET has online training for field epidemiology https://www.tephinet.org/tephinet-learning-center/tephinet-library Appears to have bunch of classes on statistics and epidemiology. TEPHINET is Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network.
Udacity https://www.udacity.com/ has many statistics or data science classes
Links to classes elsewhere
Edx https://www.edx.org/ From Harvard, MIT and others. Has current and archived classes. Topics include statistics https://www.edx.org/search?q=statistics data analysis https://www.edx.org/search?q=data+analysis
You can audit classes for free. If you want a certificate, that can cost from $90 to $300.
TRAIN https://www.train.org/main/welcome A service of the Public Health Foundation. This site lists classes offered elsewhere. You can find classes on stats, epi, evaluation and related. CDC has their own section. https://www.train.org/cdctrain/welcome Many, but not all, of the classes are free.
http://alison.com/ "ALISON enables anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves via interactive multimedia for FREE." Alison.com is the provider of classes. Trainers and organizations pay a small fee to provide classes for their people, but people can take classes for free. Search for "statistics" or "evaluation" and there are a few.
Misc
UCLA has bunches of tutorials on the main statistical packages https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu
Last verified and edited 7/20/2026