In June 2023,  we will run an intermediate-level course in Medical Statistics arranged by the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC; https://www.uib.no/en/cismac) and Makerere University School of Public Health (https://chs.mak.ac.ug/programs/school-public-health) in collaboration with the Centre for Fertility and Health (https://www.fhi.no/en/more/research-centres/Centre-for-fertilityand-health) at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and the HKDir-funded NORPART project “Improving Health Professional Education and capacity in Experimental epidemiology – (HePEd)”. 

Venue: The course will be hosted by the School of Public Health, Makerere University (Coordinator: Dr. Victoria Nankabirwa) and held at Mulago Guest house (https://mulagoguesthouse.com). 

Dates: 07.06.2023 at 9AM – 13.06.2023 at 4 PM 

Faculty: Håkon K. Gjessing, PhD (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=H9TbeTIAAAAJ&hl=en) is a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Fertility and Health, a Norwegian Research Council Center of Excellence located at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and an adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen. He has also held positions at the University of Oslo and the University of Chicago. Gjessing has a PhD in Probability Theory from the University of Bergen, and his research interests have centered on statistical methodology, with a particular focus on biostatistics, medical statistics, and genetic statistics. He has authored and co-authored about 150 scientific research papers in a wide range of journals, including NEJM, Jama, BMJ, Lancet, and Nature Communications, as well as written a graduate statistics textbook on survival analysis, published in 2008 by Springer. He has been Editor-in-Chief for a high-ranking Wiley international statistics journal. Gjessing has also been responsible for developing the official Norwegian system for ultrasound pregnancy dating, as well as other pregnancy care systems with national coverage. Gjessing has decades of teaching experience in Medical Statistics at all levels, and loves communicating the principles and practicalities of statistical research methods to nonstatisticians and statisticians alike, in an intuitive and accessible way.

Co-facilitators: Ronald Senyonga, Hans Steinsland, Ramachandran Thiruvengadam 

Course fee: None

Please see the attached detailed course description for more information.