Biomedical Data Privacy Issues and Solutions: an interdisciplinary gradute school course

The course was developed for graduate students interested in exploring privacy concerns in healthcare, the current law and governing regulations, and learning and applying the existing and emerging technologies to address these concerns.Biomedical data privacy is an interdisciplinary problem, and this course touches on issues in bioinformatics, computer science, law and policy, and ethics.This paper describes the design of our biomedical privacy course, the learning objectives, teaching materials and methods, the supporting learning activities, and the learning assessment and outlines plans for future improvements.A course survey was given and the student feedback was positive.A majority of students would recommend this course to other students and rated highly the remote learning experience.The course addresses emerging biomedical data privacy issues and facilitates collaboration between engineers, healthcare and legal professionals.