UM SPH Academic Courses

EPID720 Planning, Delivery, and Evaluation of Community-Based Interventions for Behavioral and Social Change

Summer term(s)

1 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Staff

Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.

Description: Community-based interventions comprise the vast majority of the public health efforts to reduce the morbidity and mortality in populations. This survey course covers the life stage of these interventions from their inception, implementation, evaluation, and sustainability. This course has as its core the theoretical concepts from the social and behavioral sciences, health education, and health communication and their application to population health. With these concepts as the base, the course will integrate the development and use of logic models, the basic principles of prevention effectiveness, and the utility of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods in measuring the effects of program activities. Using the lessons from the literature and current events, students will have the opportunity to discuss and critique the information learned in class as they apply to specific community-based interventions. This course can serve as a foundation for EPID 783 Methods of Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. No prerequisite.

This is a Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology course.

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