PHCG 7810 Public Health Planning, Practice and Evaluation (Graduate level)

In this course, you will learn about the basic theoretical elements of program planning, monitoring, and evaluation, frameworks used for program development, and the practical process of creating and evaluatingpublic health programs. We will evaluate existing programs using publicly available documents and consider the process of developing new programs for field implementation. We will also discuss the basics of publichealth advocacy and learn about types of advocacy campaigns and methods used in the US and globally.

Course overview

Department
Schiller Institute
School
Boston College
Credits
3
Level
Graduate
Offered
Every Fall

Catalog details

Prerequisites
PHCG1210/NURS1210 or MCPH1210 or Permission of Department

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Official evaluation summary

3.90 / 5

Based on 10 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-08-02. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

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