groups » Training and Career Development » Coursera free online, taught learning courses for global health research, starting soon!
Coursera's massively popular Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow you to take part in taught online courses on many aspects of global health. They are about to start:
Epidemiology, the basic science of public health (https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemiology/outline)
and
Introduction to Pharmacy (https://www.coursera.org/course/intropharma) - 7 weeks, 2-5 hours per week.
Reproducible Research: (https://www.coursera.org/course/repdata) 4 weeks, 4-9 hours per week.
Getting and Cleaning Data (https://www.coursera.org/course/getdata) 4 weeks, 4-9 hours per week
Exploratory Data Analysis (https://www.coursera.org/course/exdata), 4 weeks, 4-9 hours per week
Statistical Inference (https://www.coursera.org/course/statinference), 4 weeks, 7-9 hours per week
Rural Health Nursing (https://www.coursera.org/course/ruralnursing), 8 weeks, 4-6 hours per week
The courses are free to take. They can be a little Flash-heavy; if you cannot access them, try the Global Health Network's training centre eLearning courses above, which are also free and designed for low bandwidth.
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