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