The Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics offers various short courses. See below for an overview of regular courses offered. For further information or enquiries contact Anthea Henry ahenry@sun.ac.za.
This course will enable participants to understand and apply the principles of Epidemiology. It is fully online with both synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities.
The course takes place over six full days of online sessions (two blocks of three days each). Each day is made up of lectures, tutorial activities and practical exercises using statistical software.
Guidelines are a convenient way of packaging evidence and presenting recommendations to healthcare decision makers and are essential in getting evidence into policy and practice.
Knowledge Translation (KT) seeks to bridge the gap between research and decision-making (and the actors within each).
Decision-makers, whether at the household, organizational, community or network level make decisions in complex environments.
The purpose/goal of this course is to provide researchers with a nuanced understanding of how to engage with the media in order to encourage the use of evidence in decision-making.
Systematic reviews provide the foundation for evidence-based decision making. The short course will be exclusively online, using a combination of live synchronous webinars, online recordings and self study.
The Introduction to Qualitative Evidence Synthesis short course is an elective module of the Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences MSc Clinical Epidemiology and MPhil Health Systems.
The Primer is a 8 week online short course aimed at busy clinicians or decision makers to find, appraise, interpret and consider the use of systematic reviews of effects.
