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Division of Epidemiology and​​​ Biostatistics​

Short Courses

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​​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. ​
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Fundamentals of Epidemiology

This course will enable participants to understand and apply the principles of Epidemiology. It is fully online with both synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities.

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Biostatistics I

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. Read more ›

Biostatistics II

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. Read more ›​​
 

Clinical Practice Guidelines

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. ​Read more ›

Evidence-Informed Decision making

Knowledge Translation (KT) seeks to bridge the gap between research and decision-making (and the actors within each).


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Engaging with Decision Makers

Decision-makers, whether at the household, organizational, community or network level make decisions in complex environments.


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Engaging with the Media

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.


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Systematic reviews and meta-analysis

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.
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Qualitative Evidence Synthesis

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.
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Primer in Systematic Reviews

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. 
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