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Harvard University
Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale—learning how to generate innovative, scalable intervention strategies that supports early childhood development. Together, Harvard University and UNICEF bring global experience from communities to policy…
Johns Hopkins University
Biostatistics is an essential skill for every public health researcher because it provides a set of precise methods for extracting meaningful conclusions from data. In this second course of the Biostatistics in Public Health Specialization, you'll learn to evaluate sample variability and apply stat…
Stanford University
Enhance your research skills with this course on critically evaluating clinical studies. Learn key research methodology principles, including randomization and blinding, to improve clinical practice, research quality, and peer reviews. Practice critical appraisal on real-world studies. Enroll today…
Stanford University
Improve your ability to critically evaluate clinical research papers with this CME/CE course from Stanford University. Learn research methodology principles, analyze screening study designs, and enhance your skills in evidence-based medicine.
The University of Michigan
Learn the fundamental components of advanced literature searches for professionals and researchers in the health sciences. This course will help you improve the quality and reporting of literature searches for projects that rely on past research.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston
Define several types of observational studies, interpret their results, and describe how health registries can be used to make decisions about best clinical care.
University of Michigan
Wrangle, Visualize and Analyze Health Data
Imperial College London
This course will introduce you to participatory approaches to public health. You will learn about the history of participatory health research and why it is essential to solving contemporary public health challenges. The course will help you to understand the social and cultural context of public h…
Johns Hopkins University
This course introduces students to community engagement as a catalyst for improving health outcomes and advancing health equity, centered around the eight "Guiding Principles of Community-Engaged Research" developed by Melody S. Goodman, PhD, and colleagues. By the end of this course, learners will…
ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology
Multidisciplinary course by Prof. P. Manickam.
University of Michigan
Health research must positively impact the lives of the general population, so the public must receive and interpret research findings in a meaningful way. That is why translating research discoveries into practice is an important phase of the translational research spectrum. In this course, you’ll…
George Washington University
Pathways to Public Health provides learners with a working knowledge of the issues public health professionals are striving to address every day. You will meet public health specialists who focus on dimensions of health relating to: the environment, family and community, personal behaviors and deci…
University of Maryland, Baltimore
This course builds skills in any non-scientist aiming to implement or participate in a citizen science project. It is uniquely focused on health-related projects in environmental health and public health.
Alison
In this free online course, you will learn about the key concepts in health research, types of study designs, data management and the ethical principles in research studies. The course starts by introducing you to the different scopes of health research, steps in conducting a literature review, met…
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
One of the key challenges of biomedical research and public health research is dealing with and managing the explosion of data from multiple sources. This course is designed to help researchers and investigators to understand the key ethical principles of data management from a privacy, security, u…
University of Michigan
In this course, you will learn about the process of evaluating the real-world outcomes of health research. You will learn important terminology and concepts as you explore how the outcomes of health research can influence health policy and practice. The readings, videos, and activities in this cour…
The University of Sydney
Last date for individual learners to enrol in the course: 29 July 2026. This course is multidisciplinary in nature, and aims to equip the global audience of interested lay people, people with chronic disease, public health researchers, health clinicians, students, administrators, and researchers to…
University of Colorado System
Write Competitive Health Research Grant Proposals
University of Colorado Boulder
I am a professor and mental health researcher and educator, and I’ve been working in the field for over 15 years. Like so many of my colleagues, however, I was unprepared for the wave of mental health challenges that would face our society in 2020. From COVID-19 and the devastating economic impacts…
University of Colorado System
This course is targeted to early career and novice researchers writing their first major competitive biomedical / health research grant proposals. After the course, you will be able to: 1) Understand and apply principles of persuasive writing that improve overall research grant writing; 2) Identify…
