Course description
This course provides the students with the knowledge needed to secure quality public health research from planning the study, protocol development, carrying out data collection, data management, to final decision on making the data publicly available. Further, the course touches on project management, intercultural aspects of respectful and responsible international research partnerships with links to decolonizing global health and the sustainability 2030 agenda.
The course has a multi-country and global perspective, thus the course targets particularly those students who work in global /international research. Thus we will also focus on international, national and local legislation, and differences in ethical and data guidelines and regulations.
The course focuses on primary data collection of human data including different data collection formats spanning from population-based surveys, facility-based data collection, interviews, qualitative approaches etc. Practical aspects of designing questionnaires, formulate relevant questions, and transferring them to appropriate formats will be included (including REDCap tutorials).
Prerequisites and Selection
Prerequisite courses, or equivalent
Knowledge about general data protection regulation (GDPR) and about documentation and handling of research data, corresponding to the compulsory introduction to doctoral education at KI.
Selection
Selection will be based on:
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s individual study plan/research (according to written motivation).
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date).
Course director
Claudia Hanson
Course syllabus
K9F5740
Department
Department of Global Public Health
Doctoral programme
Biology of Infections and Global Health (BIGH)
Type of course
Quality Assurance of Clinical Research
Keywords
data quality assurance, data collection protocols