Planning and designing your project
Resources and communities of practice
Online learning: methods, public health, global health
If you can't take a course at Yale, here are some other ways to learn what you need to know, even after you are in the field.
Online public health and global health courses from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Lecture slides and audio content are available for dozens of classes, from research methods (e.g. biostatistics, qualitative analysis) to specific diseases and public health challenges. You can also find a massive number of courses on the OpenCourseWare platform through its hundreds of other member universities, including MIT, University of Cape Town, Monterrey Tech, UC Berkley, the list goes on.
Unite for Sight Global Health University Online Courses include a wealth or useful content, from research and evaluation design to cultural competency and authorship. Some of the highlights that all students should review:
Or you may find what you are looking for in one of these large compilations of global health e-learning courses from Fogarty or Global Health Trials
- Join a research community, in your region or your field. "The Global Health Network is a collection of websites that are aiming to support research by sharing knowledge and methods. Each has been established to create a subject specific online community of researchers who can build collaborations, develop documents, share resources and exchange information." The Global Health Network includes fora for a variety of global health topics (e.g. specific diseases and health problems such as maternal health or dengue, or cross-curing fields like bioethics and diagnostics. Access resources other researchers have uploaded, find other students and researchers in your region or field, and join topic-specific conversations.
- List of country-specific resources and data
- Resources for community-based and research in partnership, the Research Toolkit is a clearinghouse of guidelines and resources on building and working in collaborations with communities, including research methods and dissemination strategies.
- Strategies for disseminating your results in the community where it was conducted, developed by Yale's Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE). Focused on research in Connecticut, the ideas are certainly transferable elsewhere.
- Resources and guidelines for reporting and publishing your research from the Equator Network
- Practical, student-driven advice on designing your project, from protocol development and engaging with local stakeholders, to logistics and travel recommendations. Developed by students at the University of Michigan.
Online learning: methods, public health, global health
If you can't take a course at Yale, here are some other ways to learn what you need to know, even after you are in the field.
Online public health and global health courses from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Lecture slides and audio content are available for dozens of classes, from research methods (e.g. biostatistics, qualitative analysis) to specific diseases and public health challenges. You can also find a massive number of courses on the OpenCourseWare platform through its hundreds of other member universities, including MIT, University of Cape Town, Monterrey Tech, UC Berkley, the list goes on.
Unite for Sight Global Health University Online Courses include a wealth or useful content, from research and evaluation design to cultural competency and authorship. Some of the highlights that all students should review:
- "The Complexities and Realities of Global Health" is what we'd call our website if they hadn't used the name already! This is a short but sweet discussion of specific challenges relevant to areas of work in which many students are involved, such as culturally appropriate education initiatives, local management in projects, program evaluation and others.
- Cultural Competency - a good mix of theoretical and practical, with lots of real examples and quotes (don't panic, this isn't your dry diversity lecture). For a quick fix, check out Trust and Cultural Humility.
- And many more global health courses focused on specific content areas that may be relevant to your work
Or you may find what you are looking for in one of these large compilations of global health e-learning courses from Fogarty or Global Health Trials