KSPH Organizes Workshop on ‘Systematic Review’
The KIIT School of Public Health (KSPH) conducted a two-day workshop on ‘Systematic Review’ on 6th and 7th November, 2023. The purpose of the workshop was to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct a systematic review on topics of their choice pertaining to health and social issues. It covered various aspects of conducting a systematic review, including identifying research questions, refining review questions, establishing inclusion and exclusion criteria, searching and screening relevant databases, assessing the quality and bias of included studies, extracting and synthesizing data, and writing findings according to PRISMA guidelines. The workshop included lectures, demonstrations, group discussions, and hands-on exercises.
Faculty members from KSPH, including Prof. (Dr.) Bhuputra Panda, Director; Dr. Pratap Kumar Jena, Assoc. Professor; Mr. Saumya Ranjan Pani, Faculty Associate; and Ms. Nishisipa Panda, PhD Scholar conducted sessions on various aspects of Systematic Review. Dr. Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Public Health Specialist and Dr. Abhinav Sinha, Research Officer joined all throughout as external experts from ICMR-RMRC, Bhubaneswar. Master’s and PhD students from KSPH, MD students from Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences (KIDS), and PhD Scholars from KIIT School of Management (KSOM) participated in this workshop.
Being a novel initiative by KSPH, participants were overwhelmingly engrossed all throughout and actively worked on their thesis projects for refinements, making them publication-ready. It was successful in enhancing the students’ capacity to conduct high-quality systematic reviews on relevant public health and social-health issues. Certificates to the participants were distributed by the Director of KSPH, Principal of KIDS, and other faculty members of KSPH and external experts.
In the long run, this will enable participants to publish high-quality SRs in indexed journals.