Learning

Training 

Public health training centers

Public Health Training Center Network  https://phtcn.org  This site links to 10 regional training centers, each of which offers free training on various topics.

Northwest Center for Public Health Practice   http://www.nwcphp.org/training   search for epidemiology or program planning and evaluation https://www.nwcphp.org/training/training-search  

Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center  https://r6scphtc.tulane.edu  has on line classes on needs assessment and evaluation, and other topics. See the list here  https://pace.tulane.edu/courses 

American Evaluation Association

American Evaluation Association a tips blog   http://aea365.org/blog/   with short entries.

Others

On line classes

Action Research and Action Learning   http://www.aral.com.au/   has an on line learning class    http://www.aral.com.au/areol/areolind.html   This on line class is a 14-week public courseoffered twice a year as a public service by  ALARA (Action Learning Action Research Association Inc). Teacher is Bob Dick. The email version was discontinued at the end of 2023, but some of the material is still available on the website.

Boston University School of Public Health   http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/menu/   Online learning modules about many topics, statistics, research methods, program evaluation, etc

CDC  Epidemiology Training & Resources   https://www.cdc.gov/eis/request-services/epiresources.html  This page lists the following:  Public Health 101 Series — A set of courses that provides an introduction to public health and covers the sciences essential to public health practice.   https://www.cdc.gov/training-publichealth101/php/index.html   

Carnegie Mellon has an Open Learning Initiative   http://oli.cmu.edu/   with a couple of statistics classes.

The Global Health Learning Center   http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/   Prepared by some folks at Measure. This site is partly from USAID. Has a section on monitoring and evaluation  http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/program/monitoring-and-evaluation 

Khan academy has a section on high school statistics   https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability   and statistics and probability   https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability  

U Minnesota has online courses   http://learning.umn.edu/publicViewHome.do?method=load   no credit or certificate. Can get certificate for $10.  I found a couple of classes for statistics, and one for program evaluation.

MIT has open courseware   http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm   some of which appear to be just class notes, sometimes videos.  Search for "statistics" for example. I found this class on introduction to statistics:  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-650-statistics-for-applications-fall-2016/lecture-videos/lecture-1-introduction-to-statistics/   

Open University has free online classes  http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue  I found one on epidemiology in the Health, Sports and Psychology section, and the Science and Math section has at least one on data: graphs and tables.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has a Virtual Campus for Public Health  https://campus.paho.org/en  One class, for example, is Intro to Epi  https://campus.paho.org/en/course/epidemiology-americas-introduction-level-2021 

School of Data   http://schoolofdata.org/   From the Open Knowledge Foundation and Peer to Peer University.   Has a few related classes, such as data cleaning, and data presentation.

TEPHINET has online training for field epidemiology  https://www.tephinet.org/tephinet-learning-center/tephinet-library   For example one class is a training class about scientific writing.   TEPHINET is Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network.  

Udacity   https://www.udacity.com/   has many statistics or data science classes   

Links to classes elsewhere

Edx   https://www.edx.org/   From Harvard, MIT and others.  Has current and archived classes. Topics include statistics  https://www.edx.org/search?q=statistics   data analysis  https://www.edx.org/search?q=data+analysis  

TRAIN   https://www.train.org/main/welcome    A free service of the  Public Health Foundation. This site lists classes offered elsewhere. You can find classes on stats, epi, evaluation and related. CDC has their own section. https://www.train.org/cdctrain/welcome  

http://alison.com/   "ALISON enables anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves via interactive multimedia for FREE."  Alison.com is the provider of classes. Trainers and organizations pay a small fee to provide classes for their people, but people can take classes for free. Search for "statistics" or "evaluation" and there are a few.

Last verified and edited 5/31/2024