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  • Geospatial tools and data for health service delivery: opportunities and challenges across the disaster management cycle

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    As extreme weather events increase in frequency and intensity, the health system faces significant challenges, not only from shifting patterns of climate-sensitive diseases but also from disruptions to healthcare infrastructure, supply chains and the physical systems essential for delivering care. This necessitates the strategic use of geospatial tools to guide the delivery of healthcare services […]

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  • NEW: Impact Evaluations for Health Systems Strengthening

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    Discounts and Fees We offer a range of discounts for early bird applicants, alumni, tropEd students and groups. See below the discounts and fees for Health Planning and Programming (HPP course). See for more information about our discounts for groups and other short courses on our exclusive discount page.

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  • NEW: Evidence for public health responses: Statistical Methods in Epidemiology

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    This two-week course is designed to equip you with advanced statistical skills crucial for informed decision making in public health. This course delves into essential methodologies for planning epidemiological field surveys, conducting sample size calculations, and analysing complex data in Stata, to address pressing public health challenges.

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  • NEW: Foundations of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Public Health

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    This dynamic two-week course equips you with essential skills and knowledge to navigate the landscape of evidence-informed decision making in global public health.
    This course delves into the foundational principles of monitoring, evaluation, and learning within the frame of global public health.

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  • NEW: Health Promotion and Disease Control Strategies

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    This course brings together theory and practice, offering an in-depth exploration of health promotion and control strategies. Engage with KIT staff and distinguished guest lecturers and experts from diverse organisations, ensuring a holistic perspective on health systems approaches to health promotion and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

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  • Enabling targeted mass drug administration for schistosomiasis in north-western Tanzania

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    Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease in Tanzania affecting over 50% of the population. Current control strategies involve mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns at the district level, which have led to problems of over- and under-treatment in different areas. WHO guidelines have called for more targeted MDA to circumvent these problems, however a scarcity of prevalence […]

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  • Improving access to preventive medicine: a data visualization and analysis platform to support microplanning of schistosomiasis control  

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    KIT and in country partners are designing a real time monitoring and evaluation platform to facilitate decision making for the control and management of schistosomiasis. This tool will build upon the MATCH methodology that seeks to inform decision making through better use of data.   In the 2021-2030 roadmap, the WHO calls for: With the limited resources available for reducing transmission and […]

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  • Bats, parachutes and bridges: How can epidemiologists improve global health research practice?

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    Epidemiologist Sandra Alba is part of a team that developed a new set of guidelines to address issues of research integrity and fairness in international health research collaborations. She explains what the guidelines hope to achieve, and how.

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  • Whatever can go wrong, need not go wrong: Open Quality approach for epidemiology

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    Quality assurance is one of the most important aspects of an epidemiological study, as its validity is largely determined by data quality. The mounting success of quality management in the industrial sector caused a rapid spread throughout manufacturing industries and beyond. Yet, little has been published so far on quality assurance in epidemiology. In this article […]

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  • Completeness of TB notification: inventory studies and capture-recapture analyses, six European Union countries, 2014 to 2016

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    In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Action Framework towards TB elimination in low-incidence countries, and in 2016, the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) published the Roadmap to implement the tuberculosis action plan for the WHO European Region 2016-2020: Towards ending TB and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. They outline blueprints to carry out the […]

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  • Not everything that counts can be counted: mixed methods impact evaluations in global health

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    Posted on May 11, 2020 by BMJ GH Blogs Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted counts – William Bruce Cameron Do vaccination campaigns increase immunization rates in young children?  Do home-visiting programs for new mothers increase exclusive breastfeeding? Studies designed to answer these questions are known as health impact evaluations […]

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  • Stats + Stories Podcast with Sandra Alba

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    The work of health researchers is vitally important to the safety and well-being of people around the world, with the COVID-19 crisis making that all too clear. However, health researchers are facing a crisis of their own, a crisis of trust. It’s fueled partly by the proliferation of social media, the politicization of data, and […]

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