Community Health Needs Assessment

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: BIOE 6525, EPID 6523 This course is aimed at students of the Master in Public Health with specialties in Epidemiology or Biostatistics. It will enable students to integrate foundational and specialty competencies in order to develop a research proposal to address a specific he alth problem in a community. The course will give the students the opportunity to underscore in the proposal: identification of the research problem, literature review on the subject, formulation of the research question, identification of the limitations on resources and the scope of the research, formulation of the study hypothesis, selection of the epidemiological and sample designs, and the data processing, description, and analysis plan. The main teaching strategies of the course include discussion of readings, interactive lectures, presentations and reports, small group activities, and field experience in the study community.