Briefly describe the global health issue you are tackling and which specific health outcome you want to change. Describe the study you would undertake to test your intervention.

Discussion

Choose a global health problem that interests you. Now, suppose you’re working for a non-governmental organization (NGO) on that problem and that you’re testing out a community-based intervention to see if it improves your primary health outcome.

• Briefly describe the global health issue you are tackling and which specific health outcome you want to change.
• Describe the study you would undertake to test your intervention.
  • What study type did you choose, and why? (e.g., cross-sectional, case-control, retrospective cohort, prospective cohort, experimental/RCT)?
  • What is your study population?
    • How will you recruit them?
    • Are they similar to your population of interest?
  • What potential confounders (if any) do you want to control for?
• What challenges / trade-offs do you anticipate in making your study work?

As always, please remember to respond to two of your classmates for your follow-on participation.