This module aims to help you organize your information and synthesize your work for presentation in a public health scientific paper. It details essential topics such as formatting, and it discusses strategies such as critical thinking that can facilitate good writing.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• List the required section titles of a scientific paper.
  
• Utilize strategies and tools to compose the main body of a scientific paper.
• Utilize appropriate writing styles to synthesize content.
• Identify tools for organizing literature review studies. 
• Explore citation styles.

Target Audience:  Public health professionals and students

Duration:  50 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 Category 1 CHES Credits, 1.0 Continuing Competency

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest

Created/Updated: October 2020

Author: Douglas Taren, Ph.D.; Professor of Public Health  

Dr. Taren is Editor-in-Chief for Nutrition Reviews, who works with a team that reviews cutting edge research for its readers, including nutrition scientists, biomedical researchers, clinical and dietetic practitioners, nutrition decision-makers, and advanced students of nutrition. Dr. Taren is a retired Deputy Director of the MPH program at the University of Arizona and has served as the Associate Dean for Academy Affairs. He has received several extramural grants (R25, USAID, and HRSA) to create and evaluate training programs and to fund public health projects. One of the factors that have brought together Dr. Taren’s research and public health interests together is creating the training programs for graduate students and the public health workforce that translate science to public health practice.

Arranged by: Dipanwita Das, M.Sc., M.A., ID, OD