Using Evidence to Inform Decision-Making: Interventions and Health Equity

(3 Credits)

The evidence base in intervention science is complex, varied, and ever-changing. This course provides students with skills necessary to critically appraise evidence for public health interventions, including evidence that is based on experimental, quasi-experimental, and nonexperimental methods, from a health equity lens. Drawing upon various disciplines (intervention science, design of experiments, implementation science, decision science, and beyond), the course will support students in considering the link between evidence and action in public health and prepare students to conduct an independent critical appraisal of published evidence for an intervention to reduce health disparities.