 This video covers how to start developing a health-related research topic. Be warned, the process is not linear and may require you to be flexible. First, you need to start somewhere. If you have a broad topic in mind, great! That's the first step. If you're still thinking about what you want to write, about, or study, consider the classes you are taking or an interesting topic you have covered. Nothing? Next, go explore what professional organizations or government agencies are talking about. The National Institute of Health, NIH, has a hot topic page and most professional organizations, like the American Nursing Association, has newsletters or hot topic pages. What do they care about? What's going on? Consider these as options for your topic. Still not sure? Another approach would be to look at news sources in the geographical area in which you are interested. Most of this work is done via Google, or articles plus, on the library's homepage. I'm going to share a trick with you, something I call smart Google, because first steps of research are often on Google. There are ways to search Google in a smart way. Also, you can find a lot of legitimate information openly on the web, including government data and reports. One way to search Google smart is to limit your site domain to .gov or .edu. This will limit the type of resources you get by limiting to government websites, or educational websites, for example. Then you type in your topic of interest in parentheses. I will show you an example here next. Let's say I'm interested in maternal death. This is my broad topic to start. Next, I need to start narrowing the topic. I can begin by thinking about who the topic impacts and why it matters. To me, maternal death impacts expecting mothers, their families, and the health personnel that see to them. Also, this is a current topic, so I'm interested in information from the last 10 years to more recently published. And I would say in the United States, but I'm going to start with focusing my question to Ohio. A great start for narrowing my topic. Next, I use smart Google to start gathering information. I still haven't answered the so what to my topic. So what about this is important? What do I want to know? Or what is there to know? Start at Google and type in your limiting site domain. I'm going to start with governmentresources.gov. Then my topic. I will start broad, so parentheses, maternal death, and Ohio parentheses. Then search, explore, and think to yourself. So what about this topic? From one of those search results, I found data from the state of Ohio about how many deaths occur here in the state versus the entire United States. In the U.S., pregnancy-related deaths have been steadily increasing since the 80s. 408 deaths in Ohio alone between 2008 and 2015. I want to know why Ohio is fairly high, and so I have the start of a research question. Lastly, you need to decide if your research question is answerable. Not all of them are. You will need to be flexible with your research question and adjust as you explore the literature. It will take some going back and forth, and some topics are trickier than others. If you have questions, let your librarian know.