Global Health Information & Resources

August 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST on Zoom
Presenters: Gurpreet K. Rana, MLIS and Jenna Lepczyk, MLIS

Conducting evidence syntheses are an increasingly popular and impactful way for researchers and policymakers to explore, organize, and better understand scholarly literature to address a specific research question. Such evidence syntheses include but are not limited to general literature reviews or systematic reviews. Researchers must understand the associated objectives and processes for each review type before implementing successful reviews. This introductory webinar is a basic introduction of review types, tools to identify what review types best apply to specific research questions, and relevant evidence synthesis resources.

The session is appropriate for those with no or little experience in implementing evidence syntheses. Registrants will receive a recording of the webinar and the presentation slides.

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January 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST on Zoom
Presenter: Gurpreet K. Rana, MLIS

In recent years, examination and application of global and regional sexual and reproductive health (SRH) data by researchers, policymakers, and learners has been increasingly viewed through multiple lenses. SRH is impacted by and impacts phenomena including, but not limited to a global pandemic, ongoing conflict and displacement, climate change, and national policy shifts. This introductory webinar is an opportunity to begin exploring open SRH data sources in a global context. The objectives of this webinar are to:

1) Build awareness of global SRH data sources
2) Explore global SRH data through multiple contexts
3) Identify sources of open data

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November 7, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST on Zoom
Presenter: Sara Samuel, MSI

Managing data is a necessary part of conducting research, which can be done well or not. Additionally, one aspect of managing data well is writing a data management plan so that everyone working on a project understands how the data should be managed and shared. In this webinar, attendees will:

1) Learn some recommended practices for managing and organizing data
2) Begin to explore what a data management plan (DMP) is and how to write one

This session is appropriate for any level of researcher who is interested in honing their data management skills.

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May 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST on Zoom
Presenter: Gurpreet K. Rana, MLIS

Visualizing data often allows us to see and study connections and correlations in health factors that might not otherwise be apparent. It also allows for impactful sharing of data on health outcomes, risk and disease burden over time by countries or regions. This session for beginners will be an overview of global health data visualization, focusing specifically on an introduction to the use of the IHME Global Burden of Disease data visualization tools.

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March 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST on Zoom
Presenter: Kathryn Vanderboll, MLIS

Are you struggling to organize the sources that you've found for your research (journal articles, books, websites, reports, videos, and more)? Do you want to share those sources with your colleagues around the world? Do you spend hours trying to format your bibliography? Join us for this workshop to learn about Zotero, a free citation management tool! You will learn to:

- Create and organize personal and group libraries,
- Invite collaborators to view or contribute to those libraries,
- Annotate the PDFs you read,
- Add a bibliography and in-text citations in your Google Docs or Microsoft Word document.

Please note: To use Zotero, you will need a desktop or laptop computer - not a Chromebook or tablet - capable of downloading software. However, this is not required during the workshop.
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February 9, 2024 at 9:00 AM on Zoom
Presenter: Gurpreet K. Rana MLIS

Becoming familiar with African regional and country-specific health data is important to understanding social, economic, and political issues on the continent. In this overview and introductory session, participants will focus on sources of public health data related to and reported by international, national, regional and country-level organizations. Exploration of data sources that show impact on African health outcomes such as the Sustainable Development Goals Indicators and the Global Burden of Disease Study will be included.
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