Population Health Research Net

TRAINING CALENDAR

SURE Training Workshop

Date: 13 June 2013

Location: Aerial Function Centre, Level 7, 235 Jones St (UTS Building 10) Ultimo, Sydney

Time: 9:15am - 4:15pm (registrations start from 8:45am)

Cost: $165 (GST inclusive)

Registration for the event is essential and needs to be received by Thursday 6 June 2013. The registration form can be found here. Please note that places are limited and all prospective SURE users are required to attend the course before receiving access to the facility. For more information about the workshop please click here.

Advanced Analysis of Linked Health Data 2013

Dates: 1-5 July 2013

Location: Swansea University, Wales

The course caters to users of SPSS, SAS or Stata with course materials and exercises covering all three statistical software packages. Advanced principles of health and social epidemiology are combined with hands-on practical exercises in the implementation of computing solutions for managing and analysing a range of complex linked data sets.

The course instructor, Professor David Preen, will provide students with a theoretical grounding in the classroom on each topic, followed by a training session on the corresponding technological computing solutions. Students use multiple fictitious but realistically modelled linked data files in the hands-on exercises. The course will also include a series of guest presentations by Professor D'Arcy Holman throughout the five days. Professors Preen and Holman, along with additional lab demonstrators, will be available in the computing laboratory session each afternoon and conduct one-on-one coaching for those who need assistance.

Registration for the course is essential and closes on 14 June 2013. For more information please click here.

Australasian Ethics Network Conference 2013

Workshop: Ethics and Data Linkage

Date: 27 November 2013

Location: Fremantle, WA

Facilitators: A/Prof Judy Allen (Privacy consultant, PHRN) and Dr Felicity Flack (Manager, Policy and Client Services, PHRN)

Cost: Free

Data linkage, in simple terms, is a method of bringing together information about people, places and events in a ways that protect individual privacy. It enables large, population wide, studies to be conducted.  Data linkage infrastructure is currently being expanded across Australia and this will increase the attractiveness of linked data to many researchers as the availability and accessibility of data collections improves.  We anticipate that there will be an increase in applications to HRECs for research using linked data.

This one-day workshop will provide participants with a range of skills and knowledge that improve their ability and confidence to assess research applications proposing the use of linked data. Topics covered in this workshop will include:

• What is data linkage?
• Overview of data linkage in Australia
• Risks and benefits of data linkage
• Minimising and managing risk
• Considering a waiver of consent
• Legal framework and legislative requirements
• Considerations involved in ethics review of data linkage

To register for this event please submit an expression of interest on the Australasian Ethics Network Conference 2013 website.

Human Research Ethics for Data Linkage

Workshop: Ethics and Data Linkage

This training workshop examines the particular ethical issues raised by data linkage and research.

This one-day workshop will provide participants with a range of skills and knowledge that improve their ability and confidence to assess research applications proposing the use of linked data. The training covers the following topics:

• What is data linkage?
• Overview of data linkage in Australia
• Risks and benefits of data linkage
• Best practice protocol
• Minimising and managing risk
• Considering a waiver of consent
• Legal framework and legislative requirements

If you would like to register your interest in future HREC training, please contact Mrs Liz Owens at lizo@ichr.uwa.edu.au or on (08) 6389 7305.

Authors: Tan, K., Allen, J. & Flack, F (2011)
This training workshop is supported by the Population Health Research Network.

Secure Unified Research Environment (SURE) Training

Users of SURE are required to complete specific training prior to receiving access to the SURE facility. The training is currently offered as a face-to-face one day workshop. The implementation of a training program as a condition of accessing SURE ensures:

• Researchers have an awareness of legal and ethical issues and considerations relating to information security and data management relevant to undertaking linked data research
• Researchers are given detailed guidance on the features of SURE including accessing and using the system

The modules presented in the training program are:

• Data linkage research in Australia: An overview of the data linkage process and  the development of linked data research in Australia
• Responsibilities of a researcher: An overview of the legal and ethical considerations of researchers when conducting linked data research
• Information security: The current approach to information security in linked data research and a description of the security model of SURE
• Statistical disclosure analysis: An introduction to principles and methods of statistical disclosure analysis and statistical disclosure control

If you would like to be added to the Expressions of Interest list, so that you will be notified of future training sessions, please email the SURE team.

Introductory Analysis of Linked Health Data

This is an intensive five-day unit on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an introductory to intermediate level.

Dates: Monday 9 December to Friday 13 December 2013

Location: School of Population Health, University of WA

Unit Coordinator: Professor D'Arcy Holman

Cost: All fees are GST free.

• Student: $2245
• Professional development: $2345
  (Early bird fee $2245 if paid prior to 3 weeks before unit starts)
• Professional development with assessment: $2445
• Please note that these are domestic fees only
• International students: please contact the UWA International Office for correct fees at international@uwa.edu.au

For more information please click here.

Online Training - Population Data BC (Canada):

Develop your skills with FREE online health workshops

Four free, online workshops are now available from the Education and Training Unit of Population Data BC (Canada) as part of their mandate to serve the needs of researchers, analysts and practitioners.

The workshops have been redesigned from their original inceptions as in-class workshops to an online format in order to broaden knowledge mobilisation in the following topic areas. To find out more visit www.popdata.bc.ca/etu/onlineworkshops for information on each workshop, including video clips outlining workshop content and sign up instructions

• Administrative Data 101

• Spatial Epidemiology

• GIS and Epidemiology

• Introduction to Space-Time Disease Surveillance

If you have any linked data training opportunities, please contact Mrs Liz Owens for publication on our training calendar.