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Professor: Elizabeth H. Bradley, PhD

Email: ebradley@vassar.edu

Office: Main 2nd floor, President’s Office

Office Hours: By appointment 

COURSE OBJECTIVE

The objective of this course is to expose students to research methods, both quantitative and qualitative, often applied to epidemiologic, public health, and health policy and management inquiry. Students will learn to review scientific and conceptual literature critically to identify gaps or weaknesses in the literature, develop research objectives and/or testable hypotheses, and to apply and evaluate various methods for sampling, data collection and measurement, and analysis. Students will also gain practice in writing research proposals. Finally, students will experience peer review as a means of expression and gain practice absorbing input to improve research projects.

REQUIRED TEXT

Kathryn Jacobsen, Introduction to Health Research Methods, 3rd ed. New York: Jones and Barlett Learning, 2021