Teaching Fellow for Prof. Margaret Kruk

Policymakers and planners design health and nutrition programs with their best intentions in mind. Yet often programs fail to deliver what was intended. This is why evaluation is so important. This course provides an introduction to the evaluation of large-scale programs aimed at improving health and/or nutrition status of whole populations, rather than individual subjects. The emphasis of the course is on global health and on low and middle-income countries, although the methodological approach will also be applicable to developed country settings. 

The course will cover randomized cluster trials, observational or quasi-experimental designs, and implementation science designs. Students will be exposed to a broad overview of different methodological approaches, rather than focusing in great depth at any specific type of design.