In previous posts, I’ve covered the basics of grant writing and the identification of a funder for your work. Once you have an idea and have identified a funder, it’s important to learn how it operates and how to apply for a grant. In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its
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In a recent series, I laid out some considerations for conducting a successful job search to land a position in academic public health. Once in that first academic position, most faculty in schools of public health, medicine, or other research-intensive departments start looking for ways to support their research agenda. For many of us, that includes seeking grant opportunities from
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This tutorial helps you write the methods section of a scientific article. Dr. Justin B. Moore shares writing advice in his column The Scholarship of Public Health. In “Writing the Methods Section of Your Manuscript for the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice,” he offers tips on study design, setting, participants, data source or measure, quantification of variables, and
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I’ve long joked that graduate study is marked at the beginning by reading only the introduction and discussion sections of scientific articles, and at the end by reading only the methods and results sections. This is obviously not entirely accurate, but it represents the transition from wondering what others think about what they found to forming your own opinion of
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