This course focuses on changing health-related behaviors practices of individuals — including providers, patients, and community members — in order to facilitate uptake of evidence-based health interventions.

Concepts covered

• Cognitive and socio-ecological health behavior change theories
• Frameworks for the design of effective health behavior change interventions (e.g., Behaviour Change Wheel)
• Selection of behavior change targets
• Barriers and enablers of behavior change
• Techniques effective in addressing barriers and enablers of behavior change
• Common behavior change tools (e.g., behavioral economics, social marketing)
• Writing implementation science grants

Course objectives

• Describe common behavior change theories used to facilitate uptake of health interventions
• Identify behavioral and contextual determinants that can influence health intervention uptake by individuals using behavior change theories
• Design, adapt, and/or tailor an implementation strategy that targets key behavioral and contextual determinants using an intervention design framework
• Create visual representations (e.g., figures and tables) of the logic, functions, and techniques of an implementation strategy to foster individual behavior change

Who might be interested

• Community & public health professionals
• Healthcare professionals
• Medical students & residents interested in research careers