Impact Evaluation in Global Health

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the basic concepts, principles, and practices for public health programs and interventions. It focuses on impact evaluation at the national and sub-national levels, in addition to community and intervention-based evaluations. Lectures, discussions, and assignments will highlight evaluation strategies for health programs and disease-specific prevention and control interventions in international settings with a focus on diseases and programs in the tropics. The course is intended to 1) introduce students to impact evaluation, 2) provide a solid grounding in study designs relevant in field settings; 3) develop students' skills in designing evaluation plans, and 4) serve as a foundation for more specialized program evaluation classes as well as for courses on data analysis, sampling, epidemiology, and operations research. This course is not intended for those students who already have taken GCHB 6200 or GCHB 6340.