Pragmatic Intervention Evaluation

Harvard HSPH

SBS 523 prepares students to design and justify an intervention trial to evaluate a public health intervention. Emphasizing pragmatic trials that can be implemented in real-world settings, the course uses Theory of Change (ToC) and the PRECIS-2 framework to guide decisions along the pragmatic–explanatory continuum.The course focuses on four experimental designs commonly used in NIH-funded intervention research:Individually randomized controlled trial (RCT)Individually randomized group…