SSPH+ | Summer School in Public Health

20/8/2025

Strategic Project Management

This course introduces participants to the basic principles, methods, and tools for project management in a realistic context, allowing them to improve their ability to manage complex projects.

Paulo Gonçalves

Mariya Andreeva

20/8/2025

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

This course offers a thorough introduction to the methods and tools required to evaluate, synthesize, and apply evidence in public health practice and research.

Gian Luca Di Tanna

Joseph Alvin Ramos Santos

20/8/2025

Foundations of Digital Health: Navigating the evolving landscape of digital solutions for health systems strengthening

This course will focus on developing a robust understanding of the implications, constraints, and opportunities in the application of digital health solutions in health systems.

Martin Raab

Fenella Beynon

20/8/2025

Strategic public health policy and planning: an introduction to systems thinking and modelling for evidence-based decision making

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

Mark Heffernan

Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson)

Giulio Cisco

Ante Prodan

20/8/2025

Designing Programmes and Interventions for Impact from the outset

This course aims to provide participants with knowledge, key principles, and seven central tenets of an impact evaluation framework that enables them to design programmes and interventions for impact from the outset.

Janet Michel

Xavier Bosch-Capblanch

20/8/2025

Digitally augmented Public Health: A practice-based approach

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.

Viktor von Wyl

Janna Hastings

20/8/2025

Nutrition for Public Health: From Research to Policy

This course introduces participants to diet-disease relationships, the quality of that evidence, and relevance across cultures and settings by offering an overview of contemporary issues in nutrition science, public health, and diet-related policy.

Patricia O. Chocano-Bedoya

Pedro Marques-Vidal

23/8/2025

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

23/8/2025

Measuring health spending and results to improve health sector performance and meet strategic objectives and inform policy reforms

This course focuses on the challenges and opportunities of tracking expenditures and assessing efficiencies to meet strategic objectives and inform policy and health system reforms.

Laura Di Giorgio

23/8/2025

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

In this course, participants will gain the knowledge and competencies that enable them to effectively translate evidence-based innovations into their own settings.

Bridging research, policy and practice to improve the health of migrants

This course provides participants with an understanding of migration drivers, contextual factors, normative and legal frameworks, as well as the primary hurdles migrants face in obtaining healthcare.

Rita Sá Machado

Palmira Immordino

23/8/2025

Design Thinking: User-Centered Innovation for Public Health Professionals

During this course, participants will learn to empathize with target groups, prototype quickly, and generate creative ideas to transform the way they develop products, services, processes, and strategies.

Kaspar Staub

Felicitas Högger

23/8/2025

Social behavioral design for public health programs

This course will show how behavioral insights can be used to develop effective behavior change communications and other interventions including psychological inoculation against misinformation.

Angus Thomson

23/8/2025

Planetary Health Action

In this course, participants will learn how to visualize and integrate diverging concepts in the realms of planetary and one health in order to facilitate a collective understanding and articulate actionable interventions.

Simon Rüegg

Marc Yambayamba

Christine Sekaggya Wiltshire

Courses

Strategic Project Management

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

Foundations of Digital Health: Navigating the evolving landscape of digital solutions for health systems strengthening

Strategic public health policy and planning: an introduction to systems thinking and modelling for evidence-based decision making

Designing Programmes and Interventions for Impact from the outset

Digitally augmented Public Health: A practice-based approach

Nutrition for Public Health: From Research to Policy

Current Hot Topics in Noncommunicable diseases and health systems

Measuring health spending and results to improve health sector performance and meet strategic objectives and inform policy reforms

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

Bridging research, policy and practice to improve the health of migrants

Design Thinking: User-Centered Innovation for Public Health Professionals

Social behavioral design for public health programs

Planetary Health Action