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Students will be introduced to key concepts for public health program evaluation, including how to develop evaluation research questions, common evaluation study designs, and aspects of study implementation including sample size calculation and questionnaire development. Students will become familiar with how to analyze datasets to answer global health evaluation research questions, and effectively interpret and summarize evaluation study results for key audiences. Students will get hands-on experience working with a Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) dataset to apply skills learned in each module. The DHS program provides indicators in areas of population, health, and nutrition from more than 300 surveys in 90 countries (see www.dhsprogram.com). Juniors/Seniors only