Implementation and Sustainability of Community-Based Health Programs

3 Credits.

This course provides an overview of the range of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational factors that may influence program implementation, sustainability, and outcomes. Course content explains the role and importance of community engagement and collaboration across the spectrum of a program’s lifecycle, from conception, to executing the activities that make up a program, to evaluating the link between program implementation and desired outcomes, to determinations of program sustainability. Through seminal readings in program implementation and sustainability, lab assignments, peer-learning, and lectures, the course offers students the opportunity to develop skills in appraising which factors affect a program’s implementation and subsequent sustainment. Students will also be equipped to make evidence-based recommendations for program implementation and sustainability for organizations seeking to develop community-based programs.