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Global health research, in short lessons
Short videos, one idea at a time, built from the textbook Global Health Research in Practice. Start when you like, stop when you like, and pick up where you left off.
Made for people already working in global health who want the methods without enrolling in a university course.
One mini-course open · 5 planned
What the field means and who sets its questions, how partnerships are built, where good questions come from, how to search the literature, and how to read a paper once you find it.
The Validity Toolkit
In productionStatistical inference, causal inference, generalizability and measurement — the four ways a study can be right about the wrong thing.
Research Designs
In productionRandomized experiments, quasi-experimental designs, observational studies, and qualitative and mixed methods.
Practical Methods Toolkit
In productionSampling and recruitment, power and sample size, pilot studies, and collecting data in the field.
From Research to Policy
In productionEthics, open science and the replication crisis, publishing, and getting findings into policy and practice.
How it works
A few minutes at a timeEach step is one short video segment and one idea, with the point written out underneath.
Nothing is dueNo deadlines and no grade. Start anywhere, stop anywhere, and we remember where you were.
Read it instead, if you likeThe chapter, the slides and the full transcript sit beside every step.
Not a Duke credentialThis is not a Duke course and finishing it does not earn a badge or certificate.