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MPH5249

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 26 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Coordinator(s)

Mr Geoffrey Chan, Ms Elizabeth Comrie-Thomson

Offered

Alfred Hospital

  • Term 3 2016 (On-campus block of classes)

Synopsis

This unit aims to develop students' competence in the basic research tools used to plan and manage health programs at community, district and national level in low- and middle-income countries. Students will be exposed to needs assessments, planning and evaluation, health information collection, and operational research in a global health context. In addition, the unit is intended to provide students with a deeper appreciation of some of the practical considerations involved in conducting field research in low- and middle-income countries.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Recognise when and why it is useful to collect and use information for program management.
  2. Identify the types of questions that quantitative and quantitative information help to answer, and devise strategies for collecting this information in a low- and middle income country (LMIC) setting.
  3. Recognise how results-based planning can inform effective program design, monitoring and evaluation in a LMIC setting.
  4. Anticipate common challenges encountered in designing and implementing field research in LMIC settings and devise practical solutions for managing these challenges.
  5. Apply concepts from the unit to make choices about program design, monitoring and evaluation.

Assessment

Logframe matrix (25%)
Written critique (1,500 words) (15%)
Research proposal (2,500 - 3,000 words) (60%) (Hurdle)

Workload requirements

5 day intensive block.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Geoffrey Chan, Ms Elizabeth Comrie-Thomson

Prerequisites

Either MPH5040 and MPH5041 or MPH5020.

Prohibitions

Students completing MPH5249 cannot undertake MPH5213.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/pgrad