Free Online Courses
- Data Quality is an introduction to data quality is, why it is important, and what programs can do to improve it.
- Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for Clinical Trials is a review of the role of a Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB) during a clinical trial.
- Data Use for Program Managers promotes data use for evidence-based HIV/AIDS program planning and improvement.
- Data Visualization – An Introduction teaches participants to identify their audience; find a story in a set of data appropriate for a target audience; understand the process of developing simple but compelling data visualizations; share and disseminate the visualization; and promote ongoing use of the data to inform decision-making.
- Demographic and Health Surveys: Data Use is an overview of the DHS [Demographic and Health Surveys] project so that program staff, policy makers, and researchers are better able to use the data to make evidence-based decisions.
- Essential Elements of Ethics explores the relevant questions of ethics, research design, and community practice protocol for clinical research.
- Good Clinical Laboratory Practice an introduction to Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) guidelines.
- ICH Good Clinical Practice examines the basic principles of GCP and how these principles can be applied practically in the research setting.
- Introduction to Clinical Research is an introductory overview aimed at everyone involved in clinical research with a focus on the main areas of why and how clinical research is carried out, the importance of ethics in research, and an outline of the five main clinical study designs.
- Introduction to Collecting and reporting Adverse Events is a general introduction and overview of Adverse Events and how to deal with them when they occur.
- Introduction to Data Management for Clinical Research Studies is an overview and guide to data management aimed at everyone involved in clinical research.
- Introduction to Informed Consent This course places informed consent within its historical context and outlines the regulations, guidelines and processes which arose from this background.
- Introduction to Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis will introduce methods to perform systematic reviews and meta-analysis of clinical trials, including formulating an answerable research question, defining inclusion and exclusion criteria, searching for the evidence, extracting data, and assessing the risk of bias in clinical trials.
- Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trials in Health Care focuses on how pragmatic randomized controlled trials reliably determine which of the several healthcare interventions works best under real-world conditions.
- Research Ethics Online Training provides a review of the responsibilities of researches to practice ethical research for global health.
- The Research Question targeted to clinical researchers, this course explores the main factors which affect and influence the development of a valid research question.
- The Study Protocol (Parts 1 & 2) is a guide for researchers on the basic stages and concepts surrounding the creation of a protocol.