Monday, March 4, 2019

Public health training centers

training
Public Health Learning Network https://nnphi.org/phln/ lists centers and sites, for example:

Northwest Center for Public Health Practice http://www.nwcphp.org/training search for epidemiology or program planning and evaluation http://www.nwcphp.org/training/training-search#b_start=0&c5=course&c7=epidemiology&c7=program-planning-evaluation comes up with many statistics, data analysis, evaluation type classes

North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training Web Site http://nciph.sph.unc.edu/tws/index.php has training on epidemiology, statistics, gis. The topic list is here, including data analysis, epidemiology, evaluation https://nciph.sph.unc.edu/tws/training_list/

Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center http://r6phtc.sph.tulane.edu/ has on line classes here http://lms.southcentralpartnership.org/ has on line classes on needs assessment and evaluation.

American Evaluation Association

American Evaluation Association a tips blog http://aea365.org/blog/ with short entries.

Others

On line classes

Action Research and Action Learning http://www.aral.com.au/ has an on line learning class http://www.aral.com.au/areol/areolind.html This on line class is a 14-week public courseoffered twice a year as a public service by ALARA (Action Learning Action Research Association Inc). Teacher is Bob Dick.

Boston University School of Public Health http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/menu/

Online learning modules about many topics, statistics, research methods, program evaluation, etc

CDC http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline/ has this Training and Continuing Education Online. However, you can't see what the classes are, unless you log on, which I haven't so I don't know whats there. This is part of CDC's Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies (AECs) http://www.cdc.gov/AppliedEpiCompetencies/ which lists one class, Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice.

Carnegie Mellon has an Open Learning Initiative http://oli.cmu.edu/ with a couple of statistics classes.

DataOne has a set of modules on data management, data quality, other data issues https://www.dataone.org/education-modules These are in powerpoint. DataOne is about environmental data. The modules last updated October 2016.

EvalPartners has this e-Learning programme in Development Evaluation http://elearning.evalpartners.org/elearning free for anyone

The Global Health Learning Center http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/ Prepared by some folks at Measure. This site is partly from USAID. Has a section on monitoring and evaluation http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/program/monitoring-and-evaluation

Khan academy has a section on high school statistics https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability and statistics and probability https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability

MEASURE https://www.measureevaluation.org/resources/training/online-courses-and-resources/ "Evaluation makes available free training materials and tools on M&E topics for use by researchers, program managers, trainers, policy makers, students, and other public health professionals." Present and past webinars are here https://www.measureevaluation.org/resources/webinars

U Minnesota has online courses http://learning.umn.edu/publicViewHome.do?method=load no credit or certificate. Can get certificate for $10. I found a couple of classes for statistics, and one for program evaluation.

MIT has open courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm some of which appear to be just class notes, sometimes videos. Search for "statistics" for example. I found this class on introduction to statistics: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-650-statistics-for-applications-fall-2016/lecture-videos/lecture-1-introduction-to-statistics/

Open University has free online classes http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue I found one on epidemiology in the Health, Sports and Psychology section, and the Science and Math section has at least one on data: graphs and tables.

School of Data http://schoolofdata.org/ From the Open Knowledge Foundation and Peer to Peer University.

Has a few related classes, such as data cleaning, and data presentation.

Standford University has Stanford Online https://lagunita.stanford.edu/ some statistics classes. It looks like you sign up for classes and take classes (vs just watching videos or just reading class notes).

Udacity https://www.udacity.com/ has many statistics or data science classes

Unicef http://www.ceecis.org/remf/Service3/unicef_eng/index.html monitoring and evaluation training module, in English, and http://www.ceecis.org/remf/Service3/unicef_rus/index.html in Russian.

Links to classes elsewhere

Edx https://www.edx.org/ From Harvard, MIT and others. Has current and archived classes. Topics include data analysis and statistics https://www.edx.org/course/subject/data-analysis-statistics A few specific classes are Evaluating Social Programs https://www.edx.org/course/evaluating-social-programs-mitx-jpal101x-4 (archived) and Designing and running randomized evaluations https://www.edx.org/course/designing-running-randomized-evaluations-mitx-jpal102x

Open Education Database http://oedb.org/open/ these are the open courses. This site lists sites from other universities and educational institutions. There are two classes on surveys in the Health and Medical section, and lots of statistics classes in science and in math.

TRAIN https://www.train.org/main/welcome A free service of the Public Health Foundation. This site lists classes offered elsewhere. You can find classes on stats, epi, evaluation and related. They generally list classes from UNC and other public health training centers. I'm not exactly clear on whether anyone can take these classes.

http://alison.com/ "ALISON enables anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves via interactive multimedia for FREE." Alison.com is the provider of classes. Trainers and organizations pay a small fee to provide classes for their people, but people can take classes for free. Search for "statistics" or "evaluation" and there are a few.
I just found this class on psychology research methods https://alison.com/course/research-methods-in-psychology

On line pdfs, slideshows

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ has classes on statistics and a couple of classes about program evaluation. Have to search for classes. But these are basically pdf files of the lectures used in classes.

Pitt's Supercourses http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ has hundreds of on line slideshow lectures. A lot are about epidemiology, and a few about evaluation. For example:

Introduction to program evaluation, Evaluation and Evaluative Research in Healthcare, A primer in surveys, Survey sample size, Surveillance

This page http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/assist/topicsearch.htm lists a bunch in epi

However, the good, the bad, the ugly of the Supercourses:

The good:

1. All the slideshows list the authors so you can check up on them.
2. Many of the slideshows are on epi and research methods, and are easy to find.

The bad:

3. Many pages on the Pitt supercourse brings up some pop up and pop under ad.

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ has some slideshows about evaluation and social research

http://www.slideshare.net/jtneill/slideshows James Neill has 22 slideshows about research, survey research, social psychology

http://www.slideshare.net/colinquinton/slideshows Colin Quinton has 2 slideshows: Survey Research Methods, and Interview, Ethnography and Action Research

Measurement and evaluation http://www.slideshare.net/Brett509/measurement-evaluation

Program evaluation http://www.slideshare.net/missan/programme-evaluation-in-open-and-distance-learning

On line surveys http://www.slideshare.net/guestfc78ad/survey-research-02

Market research http://www.slideshare.net/kkjjkevin03/marketing-research

Quantitative data basic analysis http://www.slideshare.net/DrKevinMorrell/quantitative-data-a-basic-introduction

Make surveys, send results to google.docs http://www.slideshare.net/sukhi/conduct-research-and-surveys-online-design-send-and-get-results-directly-in-spreadsheet-using-google-docs

Rick Davies lists evaluation slideshows from slideshare here, but this list is from 2008. http://mande.co.uk/2008/media/presentations/slideshare-presentations-on-monitoring-and-evaluation/

However, the good, the bad, the ugly of slideshare:

The good:

1. Many of the slideshows are very nice looking.
2. No pop ups.
3. There are tons of slideshows on all sorts of topics.

The bad:

4. Many of the slideshows have no information about the authors.
5. Again, there are tons of slideshows on all sorts of topics. The problem is its hard to find stuff related to research methods.

Uncollege has links to other sites http://www.uncollege.org/resources/ i'm working my way through them.

Videos, Webinars

The Analysis Factor has some webinars http://thecraftofstatisticalanalysis.com/home/ about a few statistical topics. You have to give your name and email address in order to see them.

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