In this course the student puts in practice knowledge and skills gained in the Research Methods course by developing a problem-solving research proposal, which will be graded for a progressive mark of this course. The Project Work Report will be graded for a final mark of this course. Selection of the study area is done under guidance of an academic supervisor. The nature of the research could be either laboratory based or community based of less than minimal risk to participants. The nature of the work should have minimal human subjects’ participation and mainly concentrating on community improvement projects. Where human participants shall be involved, the proposal will be reviewed by the MUSPH – IRB (Higher Degrees, Research and Ethics Committee) and defended by the student prior to proceeding for data collection.
By the end of this course, the student should be able to:
iii) Identify and prioritize environmental health problems for research,iv) Demonstrate ability to write a research proposal to investigate an environmental health problem.
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