Use of ICT Tools in Epidemiology Course

Event: Use of ICT Tools in Epidemiology Course.

Venue: Indepth Research Services, Nairobi, Kenya.

Event Date: 10th-14th July 2017.

INTRODUCTION

This five day course is aimed at strengthening participants’ knowledge and skills related to the use of software applications to investigate communicable disease outbreaks.

DURATION

5 days.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is open to all researchers and health practitioners with interest in the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within healthcare.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course, the participants should be able to;

• To create an electronic entry form from a paper questionnaire
• To enter merge, validate and clean data, manage datasets
• To create epidemic curves and work with dates and times in Epidata or Excel
• To map epidemiological data
• To calculate study power and sample size for various study designs
• To randomly select controls
• To carry out analysis for cohort and case-control studies, including stratified and multivariable analysis
• To produce a report of the outbreak study, interpreting results of the various analyses.

Tailor-Made Training

This training can also be customized for your institution upon request to a minimum of 4 participants. You can have it delivered in our training centre or at a convenient location.

How to participate

• Tailor makes your course.
• Register as individual.
•  Register as a group.

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Others Details

Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training Officer.