Introduces the SAS statistical software system to manage, report, summarize, and analyze public health data. The SAS suite can be used to provide a broad analysis of different types of data. Public health research often requires one to access, manipulate, and analyze datasets relating to individuals, groups, or healthcare systems. Explores approaches in SAS to accessing datasets, data manipulation, working with multiple datasets, summarizing and reporting data, and analytic results. Includes various statistical methods and testing procedures, such as t-tests, chi-square tests, and linear regression, to illustrate applications of SAS. The second part of the course explores more advanced programming methods, including SAS macros, using the Output Delivery System and data arrays.