This course aims to introduce frameworks for designing public health interventions, including developing skills to work with program theory and logic models. Socio-ecological models of health will serve as the basis of the course. The course will include a basic introduction to evaluating, with a subsequent additional course in the evaluation of complex interventions (March 2027).

Learning outcomes:

• Insight into complex interventions based on the UK Medical Research Council Model
• Skills for working with program theory and logic models
• Insight into developing complex interventions addressing co-approaches (e.g. co-creation)
• Insight into contextual elements that can influence successful change
• Overview of different complex intervention evaluation strategies.

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This course aims to introduce a framework to guide decisions on how to evaluate public health interventions targeted at health behaviour. The course will include quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods evaluation designs and system approaches to evaluation. The MRC model for complex interventions in health will form the basis of the course. To some extent, the course builds on the former course in developing complex interventions in public health. However, this course can also stand alone.

Learning outcomes:

• Insight into evaluating complex interventions based on the MRC Model
• Overview of different complex intervention evaluation strategies
• Insight into evaluating complex interventions using quantitative research designs
• Insight into evaluating complex interventions using qualitative and mixed methods research designs.

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