Implementation Science: Applications in Practice

Catalog description

Public health programs continually implement new interventions to improve health outcomes and achieve sustainable change. This course focuses on what, why, and how interventions work in real world settings. The course builds students’ knowledge of key steps and tasks needed for moving through the program implementation process: from problem exploration and root-cause analysis through intervention selection, adaptation, piloting, and testing, to using the findings to adapt the program, and developing a scale-up strategy. Students will: (a) apply a step-by-step approach to implementation research; (b) analyze factors influencing the successful adoption of health interventions; (c) describe how to carry out each phase of the implementation process; (d) analyze indicators of implementation success; and (d) propose approaches for developing a scale-up strategy.