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Are you aspiring or pursuing a career in health research? Are you inquisitive about how health research is planned and implemented?
You could be a student, a physician or surgeon, a public health practitioner, a health counsellor, a research associate, a nurse, a pharmacist, a data manager, a project manager, an ethics committee member or just curious! Health Research Fundamentals is the book to start with to be a competent public health researcher.
This book is a primer on health research methods, with an effective combination of theoretical foundation and practical experiences. Fully appreciative of the fact that there may not always be a single best approach to health research, the goal here is to provide you with an overview of the principles and steps involved in biomedical and health research.
This book will:
· Walk you through the systematic process of conceptualising, designing, planning, proposing, conducting and reporting a health research study.
· Give you a head start whether you are concerned with clinical research and clinical trials, patient-oriented research, epidemiologic studies, behavioral science, translational research, or health services-related research.
Get onboard to a stimulating journey of demystifying health research fundamentals!
P Manickam, Tarun Bhatnagar
Dr P. Manickam
Dr P. Manickam serves as Scientist F at ICMR-NIE. He is a trained physician in the Siddha System of Medicine, which is one of India’s Ayush systems based in South India. He has completed his Master’s and PhD in Epidemiology and Advanced Studies in Health District Management. At ICMR-NIE, he heads the Division of Online Courses and is responsible for the institute’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) initiative in health research. He serves as a core faculty at the ICMR School of Public Health for a two-year Field Epidemiology Training Programme leading to an MPH and a doctoral programme in epidemiology. He teaches several short-term courses. His focus areas are capacity building in public health, outbreak science, surveillance and response to public health emergencies during mass gatherings and clinical research in traditional medicine. He has published 100+ manuscripts in biomedical journals and three chapters in books.
Dr Tarun Bhatnagar
Dr Tarun Bhatnagar currently works as Scientist-F and heads the ICMR School of Public Health at ICMR-NIE. He holds an MD (Preventive & Social Medicine) from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, a PhD (Epidemiology) from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Bioethics from Indira Gandhi National Open University, India. His research interests include epidemiological methods, causality, HIV prevention research, epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases (Nipah virus, Zika virus, COVID-19), cohort studies, health systems research and evaluation of public health control strategies/programmes. Dr Bhatnagar has authored 80+ research publications in scientific journals and 4 book chapters.
