The purpose of this seminar is to provide DrPH students and advanced MPH students with the skills for writing proposals and conducting rigorous evaluations for social and behavioral topics. The seminar is comprised of three sections: descriptive epidemiology, biology, and social determinants of a public health problem; the development of an intervention program for the public health problem described in the first section; and the development of a rigorous trial of the intervention developed in the second section. For each of the sections, students will write a proposal similar to a doctoral dissertation or foundation grant proposal. The seminar is structured around group discussion of a series of weekly exercise assignments and one-on-one meetings with faculty. The final exercise is designed to help students develop a Background and Significance section and a Research Methods section, pursuant to the specifications of a grant application for the NIH. Trainees who want to learn how to write proposals, both for dissertations and for submission for funding, should consider taking this course.

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