Capstone Project in Public Health: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Catalog description

This on-site course is aimed at students of the Master in Public Health with a specialty in Epidemiology or Biostatistics. The course provides students with an integrating learning experience that demonstrates the synthesis of foundational and specialty c ompetencies acquired during their studies. Through the field experience in the study community, interdisciplinary practice, small group activities, discussion of readings, presentations, and reports, the different components of a previous research proposal designed are executed. Main activities include data collection, organization, management, processing, description, analysis, synthesis, and presentation; as well as interpretation of the results. At the end of the course, students are expected to formulate public health recommendations and interventions, likewise, dissemination of results.