This five-day course is aimed at strengthening participants’ knowledge and skills related to the use of software applications to investigate communicable disease outbreaks.

DURATION

5 days.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is open to all researchers and health practitioners with interest in the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within healthcare.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course, the participants should be able to;

To create an electronic entry form from a paper questionnaire
To enter merge, validate and clean data, manage datasets
To create epidemic curves and work with dates and times in Epidata or Excel
To map epidemiological data
To calculate study power and sample size for various study designs
To randomly select controls
To carry out analysis for cohort and case-control studies, including stratified and multivariable analysis
To produce a report of the outbreak study, interpreting results of the various analyses.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

Introduction to outbreak investigation, cohort and case-control studies
Creation of a questionnaire
Data entry and validation using EpiData
Descriptive analysis of epidemiological data using Excel/Stata
Time series analysis; epidemic curve using Excel/Stata
Analysis of place characteristics; mapping of cases using QGIS
Bivariate analysis of epidemiological data using Stata

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ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training Officer Email:[email protected]. Mob: +254 715 077 817

PAYMENT

Payment should be transferred to IRES account through bank on or before C.O.B.18th June 2018

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