2-Day workshop on “Secondary Data Analysis”

Department of Public Health, UHS in collaboration with Department of Economics, CUI, Lahore Campus launched its 2-Day “Secondary Data Analysis” workshop from January 29-30, 2019. This workshop was attended by the participants from public sector, private sector, NGOs and academic institutes. University of Health Sciences, Lahore is a non-profit public-sector university located in Lahore, Pakistan. It offers both graduate and undergraduate programs in the field of health sciences. UHS Lahore recently launched its two day workshop on Secondary Data Analysis in collaboration with COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus (CUI) which was held from 29th to 30th January, 2019. The goal of the workshop was to train private and public sector officials to use their collected secondary data for research, specifically the aim was to enhance their working knowledge of two softwares: Stata and SPSS. It was expected that this knowledge of SPSS and Stata would help those involved in research to become more adept at statistical analysis. The prospects of collaboration between UHS and CUI, Lahore Campus were first discussed in December, 2018 followed by another meeting in January, 2019. During these meetings, Prof. Shakila Zaman, Head of Public Health Department, UHS and Dr. Hafiz Zahid Mahmood, Head of Economics Department, CUI, Lahore Campus discussed prospective academic, research and teaching collaboration between the two institutions. It was discussed that a memorandum of understanding (MOU) should be signed to achieve these goals. For this purpose, in first phase it was mutually agreed that a workshop on secondary data analysis should be arranged in which CUI would arrange for experts to provide training in secondary data analysis.​