Instructor(s): Margaret Handley, Starley Shade

Provides a foundation of the main components of alternatives to individual randomized control trials that can be used to evaluate interventions placed in real world settings. For each design covered in the class--randomized (cluster-randomized, stepped-wedge randomized trials) and quasi-experimental designs (pre-post and interrupted time series) students will assess: what are the key features, common pitfalls, and strategies to improve internal and external validity. Cross-listed as IMS 241.

Instructor(s): Priya Shete

This course will familiarize students with approaches to evaluating an evidence-informed health program or intervention using an implementation science lens. Learners will develop an evaluation plan that uses appropriate evaluation frameworks to guide the systematic collection of data to: 1) understand if and how a program/implementation strategy is meeting its stated goals and objectives; 2) improve program/implementation strategy effectiveness; and/or 3) make decisions about future programming

Instructor(s): Meghana Gadgil

Human-centered design is a discipline incorporating the human needs perspective to solve problems in public health and medicine. As an introduction to the practice, learners will follow a service design process applying methods focused on building empathy, translating needs into solution requirements, creative ideation, prototype development and testing, and planning for implementation. Broad implementation science principles and approaches will be overlaid to show intersection points.

Instructor(s): Adithya Cattamanchi, Andrew Kerkhoff

This online course provides a foundation for designing and evaluating strategies to accelerate the translation of evidence into practice, policy, and public health. Concepts introduced include community engagement, behavior change theory, and implementation strategy design and evaluation frameworks, and study design. In addition to didactic work, scholars are guided through the creation of a protocol aimed towards facilitating uptake of their chosen health intervention.

Instructor(s): Matthew Spinelli, Emilia Demarchis

This course provides training in developing interventions targeting individual health behavior change, while also focusing on intervention design components that target multiple determinants: individual, interpersonal and system/community/structural level. Students use principles of behavior change theories and implementation-related frameworks applied to their own work to solidify course concepts. Additional assignments involve case studies analysis online discussions with class colleagues.

Instructor(s): Laura Schmidt

This course surveys a range of translational tools at the health care system level that you can use to promote the adoption of evidence-based medicine by providers and delivery systems. Learn strategies for change in the broader context of sociological theories of organizational behavior and policy implementation. Focus your learning on translational tools that can be used by stakeholders outside of health care organizations to promote the adoption of clinical innovations within organizations.

Instructor(s): Sara Ackerman

This course provides training in the theory and practice of collaborating with patients, members of the public, and community-based organizations in health research, intervention design and implementation. Multiple engagement strategies are introduced through readings, guest speakers, case studies, and online discussions. Participatory research methods will be applied to trainees' ongoing or planned projects in order to adapt health interventions to real-world contexts.

Instructor(s): Beth Griffiths

This course will focus on the policy process and strategies for collecting and disseminating research findings to inform and influence that process. The course will be taught through a series of videos and guided readings delivered by faculty with extensive experience at the federal, state, and local level in health care policy.

Instructor(s): Sara Ackerman, Kim Koester

This course provides training in the use of qualitative methods in clinical, health services and implementation research. Through readings, lectures, case studies, and online discussions, students will gain basic skills in conducting interviews, focus groups, observations, and qualitative data analysis. The course will also cover sampling and recruitment strategies, working with theoretical frameworks, and publishing qualitative and mixed methods findings. Cross-listed as EPI 267.