Terms of Use

What this is

A free, self-paced series of short video lessons on global health research, made by Eric Green and drawn from the textbook Global Health Research in Practice. You watch short videos, answer questions that are not graded, and work through exercises on your own.

What this is not

It is not a Duke University course, and it carries no academic credit. Finishing it does not earn a Duke badge or certificate. A completion record, if we offer one, says only that you finished the series.

Enrolling here gives you no access to any Duke course, and nothing you do here counts toward one.

Who we are, and who this is for

The mini-courses are made and run by Eric Green, a faculty member at the Duke Global Health Institute, and drawn from his textbook. Where these terms say "we", that is who they mean.

They are not a Duke University course. There is no academic credit and no Duke badge, and enrolling here enrols you in nothing at Duke. The site does run on infrastructure provided by the Duke Global Health Institute, which the privacy policy explains.

You need to be at least 16 to enrol. By accepting these terms you are confirming that you are. If you are younger, this is not for you yet — the material assumes you are working or studying in global health.

Your account

You sign in with your email address and a link we send you. There is no password. Keep access to your email account, because anyone who can read your email can sign in as you.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us if you think someone else is using it. One account per person, please.

Using the material

The videos, slides, transcripts and written material stay ours, or their original authors'. You may watch them, read them, and use what you learn however you like, including at work.

You may not republish the material as your own, sell it, or present it as a course you are offering. Linking to it is welcome.

Some material we link to belongs to other people. Their terms apply to their material, not ours.

Fair use of the service

Do not try to break the service, get into other people's accounts, scrape it wholesale, or use it to send anything unlawful or abusive. We can close an account that does.

Feedback you give us

If you rate a lesson or write a comment, we use it to improve the course.

We will only show your comment to other people if you tick the box that asks us to, and when you do, you choose how it appears — with your first name and country, or anonymously. You can change your mind at any time and we will take it down. Withdrawing stops us showing it; it does not delete what you wrote.

AI features

There is an AI tutor beside every video, and some exercises use an automated coach. Both are software, not a person, and both are sometimes wrong. Nothing either says is professional, medical, legal or research advice, and the tutor will explain an end-of-lesson question rather than answer it for you. Do not put confidential information, patient data or personal health information into either one.

Your questions and the answers you get back are both stored against the lesson, so you can come back to the conversation and so we can read it to find where the course confuses people and where the tutor answers badly. Producing an answer means sending your question, and the lesson material it is about, to OpenAI, which generates the reply on our instructions and does not use it to train its models. We do not sell it and we do not share it with anyone else.

No guarantees

We offer this free and as it is. We do not promise it will always be available, that the material is free of error, or that it fits any particular purpose. We may change lessons, add them, or take them away.

Research methods are a field of judgement. Nothing here is advice about a specific study, and decisions you make about your own work are yours.

Closing your account

You can ask us to delete your account and your data at any time, and we will. See the privacy policy for what that reaches.

We may close accounts that break these terms, and we may end the service. If we end it, we will say so first.

Changes

We may update these terms. The current version is always the one on this page, with the date it was last changed at the bottom.

If we change something significant, you will be asked to accept the new version the next time you sign in — we would rather ask than send an email and assume you read it. For smaller changes, the dated version here is the notice, and continuing to use the mini-courses means you accept it. You can close your account at any time instead.