Field Epidemiology in a Changing World: Advancing Health amidst the Evolving Ecosystem and Technology
Scientific Writing Workshop
Mon, Sep 11
|Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Room 5.04
Organizer: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific/Western Pacific Surveillance and Response (WPSAR) Journal
Time & Location
Sep 11, 2023, 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM GMT+10
Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Room 5.04, 155 University Ave, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
About The Event
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
This one-day workshop is a condensed version of the four-day scientific writing workshop, originally developed for the 2013 Bi-regional TEPHINET conference. It does not include individual work towards a complete manuscript on a specific project, but rather provides an introduction to the methods used in the full workshop as well as some issues to be considered in the drafting process. This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the steps involved in writing up the results of operational and epidemiological investigations for publication in peer reviewed journals. The course introduces students to a structured approach to writing scientific papers, by breaking up the writing process into a series of smaller steps.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop can be conducted by one facilitator and is classroom-based. The workshop is structured using a combination of: presentations by the facilitator, group activities and individual work by participants. The presentations are organized…