Courses

Our courses are led by Facilitators with experience in diverse settings from high-, middle-, and low-income countries.

Below you can find the courses held in 2026. The 2027 programme is currently under development.

For information on course prices, see here. _‍

Details of all past programmes can be found on our Past Editions page

19/8/2026

Making sense of the evidence to inform programmes, policies, and practice

This course provides foundational knowledge of systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analysis, and the integration of evidence into actionable recommendations. It also incorporates modern tools and approaches, including AI-powered instruments.

Gian Luca Di Tanna

Joseph Alvin Ramos Santos

19/8/2026

Strategic health policy and planning in a complex world. Leveraging systems thinking and modelling to optimise investments and impact

During this course, participants will learn how to model and analyze various alternative strategies using an interdisciplinary approach that brings together systems thinking, decision analysis (including economic evaluation) and complex public health challenges.

Nutrition for Public Health: From Research to Policy

This course, which will introduce participants to diet-disease relationships, the quality of the available evidence, and relevance across cultures and settings, will offer a comprehensive overview of contemporary issues in nutrition science, public health, and diet-related policy.

Patricia O. Chocano-Bedoya

Pedro Marques-Vidal

19/8/2026

Closing Immunity Gaps: Building demand and uptake in National Immunization Programs

During this course, participants will learn how to make data tell the stories, how to inoculate against misinformation, and how to inform public health policies and programs with social behavioural insights.

Angus Thomson

Gloria Lihemo

19/8/2026

From engagement to action: Co-designing health interventions with communities and across sectors

This course explores community engagement and co-design for health interventions, taking a multisectoral perspective grounded in evidence on the social determinants of health.

Florence Secula

Giulia Delvento

22/8/2026

Current Hot Topics in Noncommunicable diseases and health systems

This course presents current “Hot Topics” with regards to NCDs and health system responses. It provides an overview of the role of health systems and presents a variety of key issues facing health systems and the delivery of care for NCDs.

David Beran

22/8/2026

An introduction to health economics: how should we finance and organize our health care systems

This course, supported by group exercises, scenario analyses and problem solving, shows how the tools of health economics can be used to understand the health and welfare implications of how our health care systems are funded and organized.

Andrew Street

22/8/2026

Implementation science in healthcare: How to effectively translate evidence based innovations into real-world settings

This course aims to provide participants with foundational knowledge and practical competencies to apply implementation science in their own contexts, using examples from high-, middle-, and low-resource settings to illustrate key concepts.

AI in Public Health: Responsible and productive use of new technologies

This course aims to foster clear thinking about the responsible and productive use of new technologies in Public Health and Epidemiology. Participants will learn tools to critically reflect on how technology can serve their goals, rather than the other way around.

Viktor von Wyl

Janna Hastings

22/8/2026

Humanitarian Crises and Public Health Systems

Humanitarian crises pose profound and interlinked public health challenges. This course introduces System Dynamics (SD) as a rigorous yet accessible framework to analyze humanitarian public health challenges.

Paulo Gonçalves