CDC Evaluation Course (SBS 550)

SBS550, known as the CDC Evaluation Course, is an innovative Harvard Chan School winter session course run in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). This competitive 3-week course, selecting 20-24 Harvard Chan students each year, provides didactic instruction in program evaluation during the 1st week at the CDC’s Atlanta Campus and then matches students with a real-world evaluation project for the second week. During the last week of the course, students will continue to develop an evaluation plan to be used by the states and the CDC to evaluate their active public health programs for the next 2-3 years. The course is only open to current Harvard Chan students. You can read more about the course here. 

Past projects include:

• School-Based Health Centers – Elementary and Middle School PILOT Program: Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Delaware
• Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System’s Outreach to WIC-enrolled Mothers, Wisconsin
• Best Beginnings Perinatal Home Visiting Program for Wyoming Babies, Wyoming
• Live It! Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Sexual Health Education, Division of Indian Work, Minnesota
• Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Massachusetts
• Electronic Health Record Implementation in Title X Family Planning Service Agencies, Michigan

Information sessions for students are typically held in late September.

For more information, please get in touch with us at mchconcentration@hsph.harvard.edu