Designing Global Health Research Studies
The wrong study design cannot be rescued by any analysis, however clever. Learn to choose the right design for any question, from a simple survey to a randomized trial.
Track Description
This course hands you the map of every major study design and a decision flowchart you will reuse for the rest of your career. Level by level you learn to design cross-sectional, cohort and case-control studies, tell association from causation, build randomized trials that work in real health systems, and study diagnostic tests. You finish with a complete, design-sound outline of your own study.
Courses in this track
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1
Choosing the Right Study Design
This course is part of the Specialization in Epidemiological, Clinical, and Operational Methodology (ECORM). This page is Level 1 of the "Designing Global Health Research Studies" course from ECORM Pathway
6 chapters
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2
Designing a Cross-Sectional Study
The fastest, most affordable window into a population's health, designed cleanly, free of the biases that distort it. This page is Level 2 of the "Designing Global Health Research Studies" course from ECORM Pathway.
6 chapters
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3
Designing a Cohort Study
When you need to know what causes what over time, you follow a cohort, and defend it against loss to follow-up. This page is Level 3 of the "Designing Global Health Research Studies" course from ECORM Pathway.
7 chapters
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4
Designing a Case-Control Study
For rare diseases and hard-to-measure exposures, the efficient, elegant answer, if you choose your controls right. This page is Level 4 of the "Designing Global Health Research Studies" course from ECORM Pathway.
6 chapters
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5
Causal Inference in Observational Studies
An association is not a cause, and knowing the difference is what makes a researcher credible. This page is Level 5 of the "Designing Global Health Research Studies" course from ECORM Pathway.
6 chapters
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6
Designing a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
The design that can actually prove cause and effect, from the classic RCT to the pragmatic designs that work in real health systems. This page is Level 6 of the "Designing Global Health Research Studies" course from ECORM Pathway.
10 chapters
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7
Diagnostic Test Studies and Finalizing Your Design
The capstone: design studies of diagnostic tests, put existing data to work, and write your own study-design section. This page is Level 7 of the "Designing Global Health Research Studies" course from ECORM Pathway.
6 chapters