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Division of Epidemiology and??? Biostatistics?
Short Courses
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??The Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics offers various short courses. See below for an overview of regular courses offered. For further information or enquiries contact Anthea Henry
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Fundamentals of Epidemiology
This course will enable participants to understand and apply the principles of Epidemiology. It is fully online with both synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities.Read more ?
Biostatistics I
The course takes place over six full days of online sessions (two blocks of three days each). Each day is made up of lectures, tutorial activities and practical exercises using statistical software. Read more ?Biostatistics II
The course takes place over six full days of online sessions (two blocks of three days each). Each day is made up of lectures, tutorial activities and practical exercises using statistical software. Read more ???Clinical Practice Guidelines
Guidelines are a convenient way of packaging evidence and presenting recommendations to healthcare decision makers and are essential in getting evidence into policy and practice. ?Read more ?Evidence-Informed Decision making
Knowledge Translation (KT) seeks to bridge the gap between research and decision-making (and the actors within each).Read more ?
Engaging with Decision Makers
Decision-makers, whether at the household, organizational, community or network level make decisions in complex environments.Read more ????????????
Engaging with the Media
The purpose/goal of this course is to provide researchers with a nuanced understanding of how to engage with the media in order to encourage the use of evidence in decision-making.Read more ?????????
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
Systematic reviews provide the foundation for evidence-based decision making. The short course will be exclusively online, using a combination of live synchronous webinars, online recordings and self study.Read more ?????????
Qualitative Evidence Synthesis
The Introduction to Qualitative Evidence Synthesis short course is an elective module of the Stellenbosch 肆客足球 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences MSc Clinical Epidemiology and MPhil Health Systems.Read more ? ?
Primer in Systematic Reviews
The Primer is a 8 week online short course aimed at busy clinicians or decision makers to find, appraise, interpret and consider the use of systematic reviews of effects.Read more ??????
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Short Courses HOME
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Fundamentals of Epidemiology
- Biostatistics I
- Biostatistics II
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Evidence-Informed Decision making: The Art, Science and Complexity of Knowledge Translation
- Engaging with Decision Makers: Issue Briefs for Policy and Practice
- Engaging with the Media: Principles and practices
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- Qualitative Evidence Synthesis
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Primer in Systematic Reviews?