3rd Workshop on Advanced Epidemiology and Biostatistics” Concludes

By Samachar Vishesh News

Chandigarh 04th Jan, 2020:- The third national level workshop on Advanced Epidemiology & Biostatistics was organized by Department of Community Medicine & School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh from 23^rd December, 2019 to 04^th January, 2020. The objective of the workshop was to enable the participants draw appropriate inferences from epidemiologic data and evaluate the strengths and limitations of epidemiologic reports. The participants were given a thorough grounding both in classical methods of analysis and in the more advanced regression techniques. Moreover, participants gained practical experience of data analysis using the computer package Stata. Twenty-One participants of various medical colleges and national level health programs from 12 states of India attended the workshop and participated actively throughout its course.

The resource persons from Department of community Medicine & School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh were Dr. Rajesh Kumar (Ex-Professor & Head); Dr. P.V.M.Lakshmi (Professor); Dr Shankar Prinja (Additional Professor); Dr. Ravindra Khaiwal (Additional Professor); Dr. Tarundeep Singh (Associate Professor) and Dr. Kapil Goel (Assisitant Professor).

After going through the scientifically designed study material and practice exercises the participants felt confident about the skills they had gained and looked forward to disseminate the lessons hence learnt. On 04^th January, 2020 with concluding remarks from Dr. PVM Lakshmi and presentation of certificates to the participants the two-week-workshop successfully came to an end.