Press Releases
Title: | 2016 Regional DHS and MIS Malaria Analysis Workshop |
Press Release Date: | 11/10/2015 |
Body: | 2016 Regional DHS/MIS Malaria Analysis Workshop February 1st-9th, 2016 Kampala, Uganda The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program is seeking applications for an eight day malaria data analysis workshop to be held in or around Kampala, Uganda from February 1st-9th, 2015. The regional workshop will teach participants to analyze Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) data sets with a special focus on malaria data. The statistical software Stata 14 will be provided for use during the workshop. The content of the workshop includes sampling/weighting of survey data, recoding variables, computation of malaria indicators, linear/logistic regression, and data use for decision making. Participants will work in teams of 2-3 people throughout the workshop to answer a pre-identified malaria-related research question through analysis of DHS/MIS data. The final product will be a draft of an abstract for submission to a scientific journal or conference. Interested applicants must meet the following criteria:
Please send applications and inquiries to Ms. Soni Fitzhugh (malaria@dhsprogram.com) no later than December 7th, 2015. |
Abstract: | The DHS Program is seeking applications for an eight day malaria data analysis workshop to be held in or around Kampala, Uganda from February 1st-9th, 2015.The regional workshop will teach participants to analyze Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) data sets with a special focus on malaria data. The statistical software Stata 14 will be provided for use during the workshop. The content of the workshop includes sampling/weighting of survey data, recoding variables, computation of malaria indicators, linear/logistic regression, and data use for decision making. Participants will work in teams of 2-3 people throughout the workshop to answer a pre-identified malaria-related research question through analysis of DHS/MIS data. The final product will be a draft of an abstract for submission to a scientific journal or conference. Please send applications and inquiries to Ms. Soni Fitzhugh (malaria@dhsprogram.com) no later than December 7th, 2015. |