Dr. Freeman teaches a variety of courses offered at the Rollins School of Public Health and our group often collaborates with partners on the development of material for online e-courses.
GH 560: Monitoring and Evaluating Global Health Programs
Provides students with the technical skills to conceptualize and design process and impact evaluations of international public health programs or projects. Helps students understand the role of monitoring and evaluation in policy analysis, planning, program design and management.
GH 565: Development Monitoring and Evaluation Plans for Public Health
This course provides students with an introduction to monitoring and evaluation for public health, including theory of change and the development of problem trees, logical frameworks, and indicators. Students will learn how to develop monitoring systems, conduct process and adequacy evaluation. We discuss the role of m&e in global public health, common pitfalls and challenges, the role of m&e in setting policy, and stakeholder engagement. The course will include a mix of didactic lectures, in-class activities, and breakout group sessions. By the end of the course, students will have developed the understanding and skills to develop an m&e plan for global health projects and programs. The final group project is due at the end of the semester.
EH 590R: Design, Delivery and Assessment of WASH in Schools Programs
This directed study is designed to give students access to professionals working in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and WASH in schools sector. Students will have the opportunity to interact with professionals working for UNICEF, NGOs, and government policy makers from countries in East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Oceana and elsewhere. Students will meet online to listen to speakers from UNICEF, CARE, Save the Children, GIZ and others. The online sessions will include active discussion with other professionals. Sessions will cover the development, delivery and management sustainable and inclusive WASH in Schools interventions in collaboration with local, sub-national, and national stakeholders. The course will support participants to identify areas of concern, advocate for improved WASH conditions, select appropriate behavior change and technology approaches, and monitor program outputs and outcomes.
ONLINE: WASH in Schools Distance-Learning Course
This course is taught (online) yearly to UNICEF staff, NGO staff and government and policy stakeholders. This course covers the key lessons learned from peer-reviewed and grey literature and relies on participants to share their experiences on WASH in schools programs. Participants share challenges, successes, and lessons learned from a variety of experiences. Participants come to this course with a wide variety of experience and background in the sector. Some may have experience with WASH programming in general, WASH in schools programs in particular, or may be new to the field. As such, the course has been designed to cover the basics of WASH in schools programming, as well as provide enrichment for those with significant experience. We will likely find that similar challenges are echoed across field staff from different country contexts.
Online: WASH in Schools For Girls E-course
The WinS4Girls E-Course was designed by the Center for Global Safe WASH at Emory University and UNICEF to help strengthen the capacity of WASH practitioners and policymakers to carry out rigorous research that investigates local menstrual hygiene management (MHM) practices and challenges. The course is part of the WinS4Girls project, which is being funded by the Canadian Government. The e-course contributes to the objectives of the broader project by exposing participants to the different MHM practices and challenges facing girls in schools around the world, drawing on current research and initiatives; highlighting gender-sensitive approaches to research and programming, and discussing how these approaches can be applied to future work; promoting shared learning and collaboration from various country-level stakeholders, including ministries of education; and strengthening the capacity of participants to undertake research on MHM. Participants will also learn how to use research results to inform programmes, policy and advocacy.