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This course is designed to prepare master (Epidemiology, Field epidemiology and public health) students to their future role of investigators who will be involved in the design and/or conduct of research involving human subjects to understand their obligations to protect the rights and welfare of subjects in research. This course introduces the basic concepts, principles, and issues related to the protection of research participants. The course will discuss the principles of ethics in research, the development of contemporary research ethics, and give an overview of the responsibilities of ethics committees and of researchers when conducting a research. Lectures are complemented by practical sessions devoted to case studies, exercises, or critique of current examples of public health studies. This course covers a brief of what is supposed to be known, thus, students are expected to complete a very comprehensive online research ethics course, hosted by FHI 360.

I hope you will enjoy it

Albert Ndagijimana, MPH, PhD student

The course is aiming at providing the students enrolled in Epidemiology and MPH programs with a practical knowledge and skills related to qualitative and mixed research methods. The course will cover topics including proposal writing, field work, analysis and reporting as well as disemination of qualtitative and mixed research findings.

You are expected to participate to the entire course, including the scheduled group or individual course assignments and discussions using the designed forum. If necessary, do not hesitate to contact the course instructor for further information.

Welcome to this exciting course related to scientific publication. This course aims at providing research skills in developing a scientific research paper and at a later stage a policy brief. At the end of the course, you will be able to improve your skills in writing abstract and main components of a scientific research paper. You will be able to review a research paper and describe different components and flow of each section of a scientific paper. At a later stage, you will be introduced to how to develop a policy brief from your research findings for an evidence-based policy decision.

The purpose of this course is to introduce the learner the concepts of nutrition, macronutrients (and their roles and improtance), causes of malnutrition and assessment of nutrition status for research and programmatic applications.

This module is intended to introduce MPH students with necessary skills for strategic planning, developing and analysing health policies, monitoring and evaluation of health projects and public health programmes in order to improve people’s health.The module also provides basic professional skills in health economics and financing. 

This module will provide you a deep understanding of the determinants of human behavior, and methods and tools to develop behavior change program, effectively communicate with co-workers and the community, develop and implement training program as well as community based health interventions.