About the Workshop:

There is no fee for participants to attend the workshop. Participants will be selected through a competitive selection process. The first part of the workshop will be totally online from June 30 - July 25, 2024.  

The participants will be provided a research methods book and access to a Learning Management System called “Canvas” on which relevant reading materials and short quizzes over assigned book chapters will be posted. A key element of success of this workshop is that the participants will work as pairs through the period of the training.  The assignment to pairs will be based on matched research interests indicated in a questionnaire during the latter half of the first week once every student is settled into the online portion of the workshop. Each pair will identify a research question and carry out a literature review to identify relevant papers to support their proposed research question.  With this preparation, they will then be ready to participate in an in-person workshop to be held from August 3 – 8, 2024 (arrival the night of August 2) in Aqaba, Jordan.

Who Can Apply?

Potential participants could be master’s and/or PhD students training nutrition and/or public health nutrition.  We will also consider mid-career professionals who may be faculty members, researchers, policy specialists and/or technical officers in governmental and local non governmental organizations who are likely to benefit from exposure to public health nutrition research methodology.  Applicants typically are from the following fields: nutrition science, nutrition policy, public health, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and other allied health sciences. Potential participants should demonstrate a strong interest in working in community/public health nutrition research and practice.

Prerequisites: 

Participants should have had foundation courses in chemistry, biology, biochemistry, physiology, nutrition, public health, and biostatistics/statistics.  

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