Impact Evaluation for Public Health Professionals: Methods, Examples, and Future Opportunities

SPECIAL WORKSHOP
Impact Evaluation for Public Health Professionals:
Methods, Examples, and Future Opportunities
Professor Jack Colford, MPH, MD, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley
January 19, 2015 (Monday)
1 – 5 PM
Location: Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish, Montréal
In this session, Professor Colford will discuss a variety of study designs and methods employed by epidemiologists, economists, and
public policy investigators to generate evidence through “Impact Evaluations” of public health programs; the focus will be on
programs related to global health and development. The underlying principles will be illustrated with detailed examples employing
cluster randomized trials, matched cohorts, regression discontinuity, and stepped wedge designs. The role of (and adjustment for)
participant compliance will be highlighted with a discussion of a proposed estimator of complier average causal effects.
SPECIAL WORKSHOP
Impact Evaluation for Public Health Professionals:
Methods, Examples, and Future Opportunities
BIOSKETCH
Jack Colford is a Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the University of California,
Berkeley. He trained at Johns Hopkins (medical school), UC San Francisco (Internal Medicine residency,
Infectious Diseases fellowship, HIV/AIDS fellowship), Stanford (Chief Medical Resident), and UC
Berkeley (MPH and PhD in Epidemiology). He has received clinical and classroom teaching awards at
Stanford, UC San Francisco, and UC Berkeley. Each year, he teaches three semester-long courses at UC
Berkeley on Intervention Trial Design, Impact Evaluation, and Epidemiologic Methods. Colford’s
principal research focus is on interventions designed to reduce diseases related to water, sanitation,
hygiene, and nutrition. He has been the Principal Investigator of four NIH R01 awards as well as NIH
R03 and R21 awards. He is the Principal Investigator of the WASH Benefits trial (washbenefits.org)
funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. WASH Benefits is a 7-arm RCT enrolling 15,000
children in Kenya and Bangladesh designed to evaluate the separate and combined impacts of early childhood interventions
targeting water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutritional status on growth and development.
Space is limited!
Registration is mandatory. Please register at:
https://www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth/contact/special-event-registration
This workshop is hosted by:
McGill Global Health Programs
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID)
L'axe en santé mondiale du Réseau de recherche en santé des populations du Québec
Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Program (GHR-CAPS)