Zimbabwe: Bio-statistics in epidemiology research and reporting

Biostatistics and Epidemiology within the Paradigm of Public Health

BIO-STATISTICS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH AND REPORTING

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the training programme participants will be able to:

· Undertake in-depth design, analysis and interpretation of different epidemiological research and reporting

· Conduct methodological epidemiological and bio-statistical research methods on addressing national health needs.

· Design and analyse public health programmes by applying of epidemiological and bio-statistical methods.

· Resource and consultants in the use of Bio-statistics in epidemiology research

· Promote use of mathematical reasoning in environmental and health scenarios.

Course Content

· General Management and Leadership

· Introduction to research methods

· Introduction to mathematical reasoning in research

· Mathematics in research

· What is bio-statistics

· Areas where bio-statistics is effectively used

· Epidemiology and use of bio-statistics

· The methods and tools of biostatistics

· Type of bio-statistics data to aid decision making

· Research Methods

· frequency distributions,

· measures of central tendency and dispersion,

· univariate and bivariate descriptive statistics,

· probability and statistical distributions,

· statistical inference

· Advanced Differential Equations

· Epidemiology

· Survival Analysis

· understanding of disease development and the methods used to uncover the

· etiology

· progression

· treatment of the disease

· Infectious Disease Modeling

· Generalized Linear Models

· Experimental Design and Analysis of Clinical Studies

· Further Time Series Analysis

· Advanced Multivariate Analysis

· Bioassays and Modeling

· inferential questions of interest

· Statistical inferences:

· confidence intervals and hypothesis testing

· confidence intervals for case-control and cohort studies

· correlation and regression analysis,

· standardization of rates,

· use of statistical software

· Stochastic Differential Equations

· Population Dynamics

· Use of GIS in spatial data analysis

· Spatial Statistics

· Kriging

· block kriging

· cokriging

· Common variogram models

· Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases

· Data analysis and Management (excel, Stata, Epi-info etc)

· Review of basic statistics and its applications to Bio-statistics and Epidemiology;

· scales of measurement

· summary measures-

· frequency distributions,

· measures of central tendency and dispersion,

· univariate and bivariate descriptive statistics,

· probability and statistical distributions,

· Research report writing

Dates: 09 – 20 April 2018

Venue: Harare, Zimbabwe

Tuition Fees: US$3300

Submit a request for an applications to tamadi@webmail.co.za and cc coordinator@tamadi.co.zw or whatsapp your request including email address to +263 773 976 674