Research Activities
The Department of Research was established with the inception of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) in 2007. Since then, Department of Research is actively involved in the augmentation of the research environment among the faculty members and students of DUHS. A glance of such key Research activities is highlighted below:
Research Day (Poster Competition for Faculty and Students)
Department of Research celebrates Faculty and Student Research Day yearly. On these days, researches of faculty and students are presented through posters. We invite the participants from all over the Sindh public, private sector Universities/Institutes/Colleges. The best three researches are awarded and presented orally in main inaugural session of event. The upcoming Research day will be the 9th annual research day which will be celebrated in the year 2018.
Pre-Research Day Workshops
These workshops are organized in the week of annual research day. Ten workshops are offered for the students and faculty members on different topics like data entry and analysis using Epidata and SPSS, sample size calculation using NCSS-PASS, bibliography through endnote, epidemiological study designs, questionnaire development, reliability analysis for questionnaire and measurements, ways to avoid plagiarism, and designing research poster.
Summer Short Courses
Department of research organizes short courses in summer, every year. These short summer programs were initiated in the year 2012 which include courses on Applied Biostatistics, Fundamentals of Epidemiology, Research Methodology and Statistical Software for Health Sciences. Participants from various institutions and organizations from Sindh participate in these courses. At the end of the program, certificates are awarded to the successful candidates.
Faculty Research Funding
Dow University of Health Sciences receives "Faculty Research Funding" by "National Research Program for Universities (NRPU)" by Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan. The Department of Research looks after all the processing of projects within the University. Currently Five Research Projects have been approved from 2015 to 2016.
Abstract Book
Another publication of Department of Research is an ‘Abstract Book’ which contains abstracts of five year research works of DUHS faculty. Total Eleven abstract books have been published till now from 2004.