This paper is from Session 6F: Service learning and statistics: integrating statistics education into the workplace

which comes under Topic 6: Statistics education, training and the workplace

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(Thursday 15th, 14:00-16:00)

Service-learning for statistics students in the global health arena

Presenter

• Julie Legler (St. Olaf College, United States)

Abstract

Students work with World Health Organization (WHO) researchers contributing to their biostatistics knowledge and WHO’s mission. Two projects involving undergraduates and WHO collaborators are described briefly. A primary charge of WHO is to evaluate the global burden of disease (GBD). Students on this first project explored theoretical scenarios to learn about potential variability in GBD estimates. Students on the second project analyzed a massive dataset from the World Health Survey to describe global trends in tobacco use. Each project explored important issues that may not have been considered without the extra assistance of the students. Every other year for the past six years, this program has demonstrated that undergraduates can contribute to the analysis of global health data.

Other papers under session 6F ... 6F1: Combining on- and off-campus service-learning in a statistics methods... 6F3: STATCOM @ UHASSELT: yet another benefit for all parties 6F4: Promoting opportunities for statistics service-learning at a large...