Monitoring and Evaluating the Impact of Public Health Programs

Nancy Scott, MPH, DrPH, Assistant Professor, Global Health, BUSPH

Nafisa Halim, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Global Health, BUSPH

On Campus 20 Hours June 18-20, 2018 Registration Closed

Program Description

Process and impact evaluation is critical to the advancement of public health knowledge, offering insights into what interventions work and why. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to different approaches and methods for conducting scientific and rigorous evaluations of public health programs.

Through lectures, cases, discussion, and individual and group work, participants will develop skills to conduct evaluations of international public health programs to inform policy. Working in small groups, participants will develop a realistic mixed-methods evaluation plan inclusive of a stakeholder analysis, logic model, study design, indicators and instruments, and dissemination strategy.

 

Competencies

Participants will learn to:

  • Articulate the value of program process and outcome evaluations;
  • Describe the strengths and weaknesses of various methods for monitoring and evaluating public health programs;
  • Critique existing public health evaluations;
  • Develop a full monitoring and evaluation plan with context appropriate methods for a public health program

 

Intended Audience

Public health programs practitioners, implementers or evaluators working in the domestic or global health context

 

Required knowledge/pre-requisites

A background in a science, engineering, mathematics or health discipline

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Low-cost, on-campus housing is also available. Contact us for more information.

The content covered was exactly what I hoped it would be. Nancy was a fantastic instructor and very prepared

Summer Institute 2017 Participant

Program Details

On Campus 20 Hours June 18-20, 2018

-Monday, 9:00am-4:00pm
-Tuesday, 9:00am-4:00pm
-Wednesday, 9:00am-3:00pm