Evaluating Today’s Complex Public Health Initiatives

Harvard HSPH

Evaluation is one of the 10 essential public health functions, one of the seven core competencies of health education, and is critical to effective practice. This course uses the CDC Evaluation Framework, a specific public health evaluation framework, to explore several dimensions of evaluation. Topics will introduce students to general purposes and uses of program evaluation; the theory of program and policy evaluation and the methods and techniques used in the broad field of public health;…