School of Public Health PGI To Conduct Ten Days “Workshop on Basic Epidemiology and Biostatistics”

By Tricitynews Reporter

Chandigarh 22^nd December:- The School of Public Health is conducting a ten day “Workshop on Basic Epidemiology and Biostatistics” from 22^nd December 2016 to 31^st December 2016. This is the 5^th in the series of workshops being conducted by School of Public Health on Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The objectives of the workshop are to develop skills in the field of medical research and public health to plan a study, to choose an appropriate study design and also to present the study results and interpret them in a scientific manner. It would also enable the participants to do basic statistical analysis of data by choosing appropriate tests.

The recourse persons are Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Dr. P.V.M. Lakshmi, Dr. Ravindra Khaiwal and Dr. Shankar Prinja, School of Public Health, PGI, Chandigarh. Participants came from various institutes across the country including Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Delhi and Chandigarh. The expectations of the participants were to learn the basics of Epidemiology and Biostatistics for application in thesis analysis, teaching and to develop their skills in use of software’s like Epi info and Microsoft Excel.