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Johns Hopkins University

Program Design & Evaluation for Health Systems Strengthening

Johns Hopkins University via Coursera

Overview

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This course provides an introduction to designing and evaluating to strengthen the health system. After successful completion of all learning activities, course participants will be able to:
1. Define health systems strengthening
2. Describe health systems frameworks and how to incorporate them into evaluation planning
3. Describe how to design and prioritize implementation of health systems programs
4. Detail approaches to evaluate health systems programs, including data sources and study design
5. Introduce tools to assist with evaluation planning and simple models to assess health system intervention impact
6. Describe how to interpret health system evaluation findings and sustainability and scalability implications

The development of this course was supported by a grant from Government Affairs Canada (GAC) for the Real Accountability, Data Analysis for Results (RADAR) project.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to health system strengthening
    • This module will introduce health systems strengthening, systems thinking, health systems frameworks and logic models, and the evaluation planning tool.
  • Designing programs to strengthen the health system
    • This module will cover types of health systems strengthening programs and approaches to design health systems strengthening programs.
  • Evaluating programs with a health system strengthening lens
    • This module will cover study designs, data sources, and methods to evaluate health systems strengthening programs. Finally, this module will conclude with implications of health system evaluation findings

Taught by

Jaya Gupta, PhD and Timothy Roberton

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