PUBH 5004

Students will learn how to design research and analyze data for the most commonly used qualitative and mixed methods approaches in public health. Students will learn how to develop questions, interview and focus group guides, facilitate interviews and focus groups, analyze qualitative data, and report findings for narrative studies; phenomenological studies; grounded theory studies; institutional ethnographic studies; and case studies. Analysis methods will include discourse analysis and other techniques. In the second part of this course, students will learn how to triangulate research in public health through commonly used mixed methods approached (sequential exploratory, sequential explanatory, concurrent triangulation, and concurrent embedded methods); and the potential challenges to conducting mixed methods studies in our field. Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program Recommended Background: Health Sciences 3260 (or equivalent)