Comprehensive evaluation of public health and disease prevention programs is critical to developing an evidence base for public health practice as well as for accountability to stakeholders. Evaluations demonstrate the efficacy, effectiveness and/or efficiency of programs and provide models of good practice. This course builds skills in planning, conducting and using formative, process, impact and outcome evaluations of public health programs. Using three highly interactive workshops, supplemented by online resources and four weeks of online discussions, students will develop skills in defining the purpose of evaluations, developing evaluation questions, and selecting appropriate designs and data collection methods. There will be a focus on how mixed-methods evaluations can provide useable, real world evidence to guide policy and practice. The third workshop in the unit will be devoted to new developments in evaluation, including methods for assessing intervention scale up, the opportunities presented in natural experiments, and frameworks and methods for evaluating complex programs.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Public Health |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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PUBH5033 |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | No |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Ben Smith, ben.smith@sydney.edu.au |
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Guest lecturer(s) | Andrew Milat, andrew.milat@sydney.edu.au |
Lecturer(s) | Yvonne Laird, yvonne.laird@sydney.edu.au |
Karen Lee, karen.c.lee@sydney.edu.au | |
Ben Smith, ben.smith@sydney.edu.au | |
Tutor(s) | Melanie Crane, melanie.crane@sydney.edu.au |