Evaluation: International Health Programs Certificate Program

The certificate program is intended for current master's and doctoral students at JHU planning to work in the field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in low- and middle-income countries.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of the certificate program, individuals will be able to:

1. Evaluate health programs from conception, planning and design through data collection, interpretation, and analysis in low-and-middle-income settings;
2. Create impact models for health programs that reflect program assumptions and the available evidence on intervention effectiveness;
3. Critically evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of various evaluation designs for a given health program;
4. Identify threats to internal and external validity in program evaluation, and develop a plan to mitigate or document these threats;
5. Design, implement and manage data collection activities to measure program inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes, and impacts in low and middle-income settings;
6. Critically assess the quality of existing data on program inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes and impacts, and determine whether these data can be used in the evaluation of a health program in low-and middle-income settings; and
7. Analyze, interpret and use program evaluation data to improve program implementation. 

Please visit our Academic Catalogue to see the full certificate curriculum requirements. Please also review the certificate completion requirements.