This document summarizes the key points from a lecture on public health research methods. It discusses recommendations for organizing data analysis workflows, including using annotated text files for code, GitHub for version control and collaboration, and having others replicate analyses using different software. It also covers citation management options, ethics review boards, and some Berkeley-specific resources. The overall lecture provided an overview of best practices for conducting and documenting public health research.

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2. Data Work Flow
• Workflow of data analysis
• An organized, well-documented, step-by-step process from design to publica)on
• Basic steps:
• Data collec)on/organiza)on/cleaning
• Analyses
• Dissemina)on/publica)on
• Data/materials storage
• Facilitates “easy” replica)on
• Can use GitHub to track
changes to code in workflow
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3. Data & Code
Organiza(on/Storage:
Recommenda(ons
• Use annotated text files for your code (or similar for other programs)
• Both for self, colleagues, and replica)on
• For example
• Do Files in Stata
• R Markdown
• GitHub (www.github.com)
• Transparently report & share your code
• Use for collabora)on & version control
• Can link to OSF
• Other )ps
• Use coding loops (vs copy-paste)
• Use func)ons/variables for constants (in case need to change later)
• Ideally, once finish analysis, have a colleague run analysis using different sojware
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4. Cita(on Management
• Many op)ons…
• Pros & Cons
• Cost (one )me, annual?)
• Offline or online?
• Compatability
• Flexiblity (eg, for SRs)
• Also, new-ish: PaperPile (useful for online collabora)ons, poten)al SR issue)
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hkp://guides.library.upenn.edu/cita)onmgmt

5. Ethics & IRB Process
• Commiaee for ProtecNon of Human Subjects (CPHS)
• UC Berkeley’s InsNtuNonal Review Board (IRB) [actually two of them]
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hkp://cphs.berkeley.edu/about.html
“The primary mission of the IRB is to ensure the protec)on of the rights and welfare of all human
par)cipants in research conducted by university faculty, staff and students.”
hkp://cphs.berkeley.edu/about.html

6. Some Berkeley-
related Resources
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