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Evaluating Large-Scale Health Programs

This specialization teaches learners how to plan and implement effectiveness evaluations of large-scale health programs. It focuses on evaluating health programs in low- and middle-income countries, where routine data are less available and reliable and therefore are often not sufficient to support a rigorous evaluation. The first course, “Evaluating Public Health Programs at Scale”, provides an overview of the issues and evaluation methods in this context; it can be taken as a standalone course for those learners who want a general understanding of effectiveness evaluations. The remaining five courses all do a more comprehensive look at topics covered in the overview course. Plus, each course introduces tools that can be used in an evaluation, including generic survey instruments that can be adapted, and detailed instructions for concrete tasks such as estimating sample sizes, training and supervising surveyors, ensuring data quality, and conducting the analysis. The tools include packages that help in the design of the evaluation (course 2 ), for collecting data on quality of care and implementation strength (course 3), household surveys (course 4), and the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) for modeling impact measures (course 5), all of which are available at: https://www.radar-project.org/. The final course includes code for data cleaning and analysis for various data sets. These tools and this set of courses were funded by a grant from Government Affairs, Canada.

Status: Public Health
Status: Surveys
IntermediateSpecialization

Top reviews across Evaluating Large-Scale Health Programs

AT

Reviewed Oct 26, 2024

Through this course, I have gained invaluable skills that will, among other things, help me conduct academic research and continue to advance public health as a dietitian.

BH

Reviewed Jul 31, 2023

I found it to be very important in identifying problems and improving health care delivery .

TK

Reviewed Dec 23, 2025

Thank you, it is exactly I needed and exceed my expectations.

LG

Reviewed May 20, 2023

This course is great. The instructors explained each chapters very well. I also came to know about Radar tools which I am going to utilize in the researches that I will be working on. I am so happy.

DA

Reviewed Apr 1, 2026

Coursera’s Analysis and Interpretation of Large-Scale Programs teaches evaluating program impact, analyzing data, and using evidence for decision-making.

A

Reviewed Dec 23, 2023

The course is very exciting. It really provided me with certain details that I have always overlooked in my practice. Am happy to have taken it.

DT

Reviewed Apr 4, 2026

excellent and gain knowledge and good for everyone

FN

Reviewed Apr 5, 2023

It really was enriching for my knowledge of evaluations and systems strengthening. Thank you Coursera

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