Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit

The Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit builds on public health thinking (introduced in the previous course) and introduces a variety of core public health approaches (the toolkit) to conceptualising problems, conducting analysis and bringing forward recommendations. In this course we cover health needs assessment, evaluation and public health intelligence-approaches.

• Use public health principles to articulate health objectives
• Apply health protection, improvement, and disease prevention interventions
• Analyze health problems using public health tools
• Deliver data-driven recommendations to enhance health programs

• Basic computer and internet skills
• Ability to read English instructions and complete short exercises