The Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA) would like to announce that the book entitled "The Evolution of Public Health in Ethiopia" 3rd Revised Edition, is on sale. Its price is 200 birr for Ethiopians and 10 USD for foreigners. Anyone interested to buy may contact us with the following address:

Close to the Dream Line Hotel on the way to Meskel flower about 500 mt from Dembel Building Kirkos Sub City

Tel: +251-1- 416 60 83 / 41 / 88
Fax: +251-1- 416 60 86
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P.O.Box: 7117
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

Measuring Health Outcomes in Field Surveys

This course explores the fundamentals of field-based health research through documentary-style learning at ongoing research projects in India and Kenya.

About this course Skip Course Description
Travel with our team to India and Kenya to see first-hand how rigorous health research is conducted in the field. This eight-week course will focus on the fundamentals of field-based health research with an emphasis on measuring health outcomes in low resource settings. The course will involve real world examples from on-going research studies in India and Kenya, combined with exercises to provide practical insights about study design, measurement of health outcomes and data collection, as well as the common challenges and constraints in implementing health surveys in the field. Case Studies and exercises will be drawn from research conducted by J-PAL affiliated professors.

JPAL350x is designed for individuals from a variety of backgrounds including those who are new to health research, as well as managers and researchers from international development organizations, foundations, governments, and non-governmental organizations around the world.

What you'll learn

• Through a series of integrated learning modules, the course will focus on topics such as:
• Measuring individual and population health
• Designing research studies, including theories of change and logical frameworks
• Selecting health indicators
• Measurement tools and selection
• Questionnaire development
• Safety, hygiene, and ethical issues related to health research
• Ethical issues

The course will run this year from September 25 - November 20, 2018. The link for registration is here: https://www.edx.org/course/mea suring-health-outcomes-in-fiel d-surveys

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Dear Distinguished Members

The School of Public Health is planning to conduct a memorial lecture in remembering Professor Mesganw Fanthun who was a senior staff member of the School. The memorial lecture will be conducted at the College of Health Sciences auditorium on Wednesday July 18, 2018 from 9:00 am-12:00 noon in the presence of his families, colleagues, Addis Ababa University and Ministry of Health officials and invited guests. In the program, it is planned to have personalities who has close working relation with Professor Mesganaw to forward testimonial speech about his scientific contribution as an academician, a friend and colleague. As per the request from the School of Public Health, we hereby would like to share you the above information so that you can take part in the program.

EPHA secretariat