Online courses upskill professionals to apply data to problems affecting the health of populations and the planet. Graduates can learn to use One Health concepts and data skills to tackle contemporary challenges, with help from a series of new short courses.Professionals can develop their skillset to help address major societal and health problems, through applying good decision-making abilities to enable change.Three credit-bearing short courses, led by the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, seek to enable participants to apply data skills to global threats linked to pollution, loss of biodiversity and climate change.Students will learn to distinguish reputable evidence, cut through misinformation and develop critical thinking skills, to focus on developing robust solutions for tangible problems.Supporting planetary healthUnderstanding Planetary Health and Data is a short course which aims to introduce students to key concepts and themes linked to the health of the natural systems that support human life on earth.These include public health, climate change, food and nutrition security, conflict, and sustainable futures.Students on the five-week course will be invited to assess and debate key topics through use of large data sets derived from UN, WHO and World Bank repositories.Participants will be introduced to tools and methods of data gathering for evidence-based decision-making in this field. We are being faced with complex challenges affecting people, animal, and planetary health. Understanding planetary health data is essential for gaining insight into these challenges, as well as finding solutions. This course is intended for both humanities and science graduates and we welcome learners with a breadth of interests and experiences. Cynthia Naydani Course Organiser, Understanding Planetary Health and Data Informing policymakingA separate course, Making Science Relevant to Policy and Decision Making, will provide a practical guide to implementing policy-led science for decision-making.Participants will examine the benefits and potential drawbacks of following such an approach in the public, private and charitable sectors.This five-week course places an emphasis on translating policy aims into tractable scientific questions. This course will equip students with the skills to align scientific inquiry with policy goals to drive effective, evidence-based decisions across public, private, and charitable sectors. Professor Susan Jarvis Course Organiser, Making Science Relevant to Policy and Decision Making Nutrition and healthStudents taking Foundations of Nutritional Epidemiology will learn nutrition and diet measurement, epidemiologic methods, exploring data, interpreting statistics, and understanding scientific literature on diet, nutrition, and health.Students gain an understanding of how findings from nutritional epidemiology are relevant to health and social care, and an understanding of the causes and prevention of diet-related health problems at the population level. Nutritional epidemiology explores the links between diet, nutrition, and health to inform data-driven public health strategies. Dr Sarah Frank Course Organiser, Foundations of Nutritional Epidemiology All three courses are available in early 2025 and can be taken as standalone study, or as a credit-bearing contribution to some masters programmes. Students enrolled on these courses will also have the option to obtain a recognised postgraduate qualification in Data-Driven Sustainability, directed by Dr Steph Smith. The Postgraduate Certificate in Data-Driven Sustainability recognises 60 credits of study and is delivered by experts in data science, sustainability, planetary health, one health, policy, food systems and nutrition. By offering this as an online learning programme, we invite students to join us to learn about the latest thinking and analysisaround data driven sustainability. Dr Steph Smith Programme Director, Data-Driven Sustainability Related linksPostgraduate short coursesData-Driven Sustainability PGCert