Public Health and Epidemiology: From Decision to Lasting Impact
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Public health is not simply about collecting data or rolling out programmes. It rests on the ability to turn information into decisions, decisions into action, and action into lasting impact for populations. This course gives you a concrete methodology for delivering public health interventions effectively, steering programmes with meaningful indicators, correcting deviations quickly and building systems capable of producing sustainable results despite constraints on the ground. Through practical cases drawn from African realities, together with operational tools, dashboards, supervision grids and multi-stakeholder coordination methods, you will develop a rigorous, impact-driven approach to strengthening the performance of public health programmes.
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What this course covers
Public Health and Epidemiology: From Decision to Lasting Impact is an online UpSkills course in Health & Social Care, organised into 5 modules, 16 lessons and 3h 42m of content. Each sequence pairs theory with hands-on practice so that what you learn transfers directly to a real professional setting.
By the end of this programme you will be able to translate a strategic decision into an operational action plan, design and use effective micro-plans for delivery and coordinate institutional and community stakeholders and technical partners. These skills are built up gradually across the course, consolidating the fundamentals before moving on to more advanced material.
The learning path opens with “Course introduction” and closes with “Quiz”, taking in “SECTION 1 – Delivering without losing efficiency”, “SECTION 2: Steering and course-correcting before the crisis” and “SECTION 3 Embedding a sustainable public health approach” along the way. The sequence is designed so each module builds on the one before it.
This course is aimed at learners at intermediate level looking to build their skills in Health & Social Care. It suits both individual upskilling and a company-led development plan, and needs no special software or equipment to follow.
The programme is led by L'équipe d'experts Up Skills; you learn at your own pace, with no fixed schedule, from desktop, tablet or mobile; an UpSkills certificate is issued once you complete the course.
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Key Objectives
Translate a strategic decision into an operational action plan.
Design and use effective micro-plans for delivery.
Coordinate institutional and community stakeholders and technical partners.
Identify and prevent the main breakdowns in health programmes.
Put in place quality control and formative supervision mechanisms.
Build simple, relevant dashboards for day-to-day programme management.
Reduce the data collection burden while improving data quality.
Implement a system for rapidly correcting performance gaps.
Detect the weak signals that herald programmatic drift.
Develop a management culture built around population-level impact.
Embed good practice for the long term within health organisations.
Make rigorous decisions in contexts where the data is imperfect.
Build data-driven advocacy to influence public policy.
Build a lasting professional legacy in the service of health systems.
Program
4 module(s)
MODULE 1
Course introduction
1 elementIntroduction to the course
9 minMODULE 2
SECTION 1 – Delivering without losing efficiency
5 elementsMODULE 1. Turning the decision into operational actions
19 minMODULE 2. Aligning stakeholders, resources and the field .mp4
18 minMODULE 3. Avoiding breakdowns during implementation.mp4
21 minMODULE 4. Maintaining quality during delivery (Part 1 )
15 minMODULE 4. Maintaining quality during execution (Part 2)
6 minMODULE 3
SECTION 2: Steering and course-correcting before the crisis
4 elementsMODULE 5. Steering with a handful of useful indicators
20 minMODULE 6. Streamlining data collection
13 minMODULE 7. The rapid correction cycle
17 minMODULE 8. Anticipating programme drift
15 minMODULE 4
SECTION 3 Embedding a sustainable public health approach
5 elementsMODULE 9. Building a culture of population-wide impact
13 minMODULE 10. Embedding practices for the long term
15 minMODULE 11. Practising rigour in an imperfect world
13 minMODULE 12. Data-driven advocacy
15 minMODULE 13. Thinking about your professional legacy
13 minMODULE 5
Quiz
1 elementQuiz
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This course is aimed at health professionals, programme managers, health project managers, ministry officials, NGOs, local authorities and international organisations who are keen to improve the effectiveness, quality and impact of their work. A basic understanding of how health systems operate is recommended, but no advanced technical prerequisites are required. A computer, tablet or smartphone with an internet connection is all you need to follow the course.
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Une formation très intéressante et de qualité merci pour toutes personnes participants a cet travail de haute qualité
Une formation très pratique, simple et concrète. Je suis ravie d'avoir participé.