Pushpa Latha completed the Coursera course "R Programming" from Johns Hopkins University with distinction in June 2015. The course covered using and programming in R for effective data analysis, including programming in R, reading data into R, accessing packages, writing functions, debugging, profiling code, and organizing and commenting code. The course was led by Roger D. Peng, Jeffrey Leek, and Brian Caffo from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.