BHA 414 Research and Evidence-Based Practice

This course provides foundational knowledge and practical guidance for all steps in the research process using public health examples and real-world applications to reinforce all concepts. It covers everything students need to have a firm basis on how to design research, how to collect and manage data using a variety of study designs and methods, and how to share research results. Foundational topics, such as searching the literature, finding gaps, formulating research questions, operationalization and measurement, sampling, budgeting for research studies, summarizing and visualizing data, disseminating results and more are covered. This course emphasizes skills, including question development, survey design and implementation, qualitative methodology, mixed methods research, how to record and analyze quantitative and qualitative data, and how to use secondary data. Prerequisite: BEH 260, MAT 250, or QBA 260.

3 credit hours