Section Name Description
Module 1: Lesson 1: Core Concepts URL What Is Behavioral Science & How Does It Relate to Public Health?

Read the entire article. (14 minutes)

Ohio University - 2020

URL Improving people’s health: Applying behavioural and social sciences to improve population health and wellbeing in England

Read content under Chapter 4 What are behavioural and social sciences? What key frameworks do they offer public health practitioners? (19 minutes)

Public Health England - 2018

URL Models and Theories to Support Health Behavior Intervention and Program Planning

Read the entire document. (15 minutes)

Purdue Extension Health and Human Sciences - 2015

URL Social and Behavioral Theories

Read the entire resource. (31 minutes)

NIH - 2008

URL Theory at a Glance: A Guide for Health Promotion Practice (Second Edition)

Read the content on the section “Part 1” on pages 4-7, and “Part 3” on pages 36-46. (15 minutes)

National Cancer Institute - 2012

URL Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
Read the Introduction. (11 minutes)
The National Academies Press - 2011
Module 2: Lesson 1: Identifying Social and Behavioral Factors that Affect Health URL Social Determinants and Health Behaviors: Conceptual Frames and Empirical Advances

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NCBI - 2015

URL Social Determinants of Health

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HealthyPeople - 2020

URL The Social Determinants of Health: It's Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes

Read the content under "The Impacts of Socioeconomic and Other Social Factors on Most Health Outcomes" And "Multiple Mechanisms Explain Impacts of Socioeconomic and Other Social Factors on Health" (16 minutes)

Public Health Reports - 2014

URL Predicting mortality from 57 economic, behavioral, social, and psychological factors

Read the entire article. (37 minutes)

PNAS - 2020

Module 2: Lesson 2: Identifying Social and Community Factors that Affect Health URL Theory at a Glance: A Guide for Health Promotion Practice (Second Edition)

Read content on the section “Part 2” on pages 10-33. (20 minutes)

National Cancer Institute 2012

URL Social Ecological Approaches to Individuals and Their Contexts: Twenty Years of Health Education & Behavior Health Promotion Interventions

Read the entire article. (31 minutes)

SagePub Journal 2012

URL Physical and Social Environmental Factors

Read the entire article. (37 minutes)

National Research Council 2013

URL Addressing Societal Factors to Improve Health Equity

Read the entire article. (5 minutes)

American Hospital Association 2020

URL Social and behavioral health responses to COVID‑19: lessons learned from four decades of an HIV pandemic

Read from the title "Abstract" to the title "Community", ¨Society¨ and ¨Conclusion¨(9 minutes)

Springer Science 2020

URL About Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

Read the entire flyer. (10 minutes)

NIH 2020

URL The Importance of Considering the Social Determinants of Health

Read the entire article (6 minutes)

AJMC - 2016

URL Building Healthy Community Environments: A Public Health Approach

Read content from "A Framework for Healthy Communities" to end. (11 minutes)

Journal Article 2018

URL Section 5. Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Development

Read content from "Why Address Social Determinants of Health and Development" to "Summary". (34 minutes)

Community Tool Box 2013

URL Addiction and the brain | The Royal Society

Watch the enitre video This lecture reviewed some of Professor Everitt and his group’s research on the behavioural neuroscience of addiction in experimental animals that seeks to understand the neural and psychological mechanisms of addictive behaviour, including the nature of vulnerability as well as the possibility of developing new treatments. (53 minutes)

URL The Impact of Social and Cultural Environment on Health

Read content under the following headings: "Social Networks, Social Support, and Health" and "Aspects of Health Influenced by the Social Environment". (13 minutes)

Institute of Medicine (US)  2006

Module 3: Lesson 1: Applying Ethical Principles in the Process of Intervention URL Global Health Ethics Key Issues

Read the content on Section "A. Introduction to health ethics key concepts" on pages 10-11. (9 minutes)

WHO - 2015

URL Public health Code of Ethics

Read the content under Section 2 on pages 5-6.  (4 minutes)

APHA - 2019

URL Public Health Ethics

Read entire page. Click on the cases at the end of the page and read. (30 minutes)

UW Medicine 2018

URL An Ethics Framework for Public Health

Read Section under "An Ethics Framework for Public Health" (31 minutes)

NIH - 2001

URL Global Health Ethics, Key Issues

Read the content under the heading "What are key ethical issues in public health?"on the pages 14-20. (7 minutes)

WHO 2015

URL Improving government policy on risk: Eight key principles

Read the summarised points under "Eight key principles guiding governments on how to deal with risk" (2 minutes)

Elsevier 2018

URL Public Policy and Behavior Change

Read the content under "Policy Instruments to Stimulate Behavior Change" (3 minutes)

Public Administration Review - 2019

URL Human Rights in Public Health

Read from the title "Developing health-related human rights" to the title "A critical time for human rights in public health". (12 minutes)

PMC National Institues of Health - 2018

URL Individual Rights and the Public’s Health: Constitutional, Ethical, and Political Aspects of COVID-19 Measures and Their Enforcement.

Read the entire article. (6 minutes)

The Network for Public Health Law - 2021

URL Public Obligation and Individual Freedom: How to Fill the Gap? The Case of Vaccinations

Read the entire article. (11 minutes)

Journal of Public Health Research - 2016

URL Ethicist Weighs in on Tension Between Public Health and Private Liberty

Read the entire article. (12 minutes)

Davidson - 2020

Module 4: Lesson 1: Role and efficacy of social and behavioural science in public health interventions. URL Public Health Interventions

Read the section "Public health interventions, defined" (4 minutes)

Minnesota Department of Health Center for Public Health Practice - 2019

URL Public Health Policy: Definition, Examples, and More

Read the entire article. (4 minutes)

Columbia University - 2021

URL Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

Read the content under the sections "Social Context", and "Aligning individual and collective interests" (22 minutes)

Nature Human Behaviour - 2020

URL A Strategic Plan for Strengthening America's Families: A Brief from the Coalition of Behavioral Science Organizations

Read the content under the headings "The Impact of these Conditions on Parents", "The Impact of Disadvantage on Children", and "A Wealth of Evidence-Based Family and School Interventions" (16 minutes)

Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review - 2020

URL Using Behavioral Science to promote sustainable community development: From individuals to groups and communities

Read the content under the heading "Community as a Whole" (4 minutes)

Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences - 2017

URL Public Health Interventions: Practice Levels

Read the section 'Public health practice levels'. (2 minutes)

Minnesota Department of Health Center for Public Health Practice - 2019

URL Applying the Social and Behavioral Sciences to Policy and Practice

Read the entire article. (19 minutes)

Issues in Science and Technology - 2013

URL Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Substance Use Disorders: From Theory to Practice

Watch the entire webinar 

This webinar will review the CBT model of substance use, as well as practical treatment strategies and tools in order to best help individuals affected by SUDs. (92 minutes)

Module 5: Lesson 1: Planning and Implementation of Public Health Programs, Policies and Interventions URL Why Study Social and Behavioral Factors in Public Health?

Read the content under "Case study" and "Social Ecology of health Model" on pages 12-15 (11 minutes)

SagePub - 2009

URL Introduction to Special Issue on Social Ecological Approaches to Community Health Research and Action

Read the content under the heading "Abstract", "Introduction". (3 minutes)

American Journal of Community Psychology - 2009

URL Improving people’s health: Applying behavioural and social sciences to improve population health and wellbeing in England

Read content under Chapter 3 "What can behavioural and social
sciences contribute to public health?" page 16. 
(13 minutes)

Public Health England - 2018

URL Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health Programs: A Self-Study Guide

Read the content for Step 1: Engage Stakeholders.  (11 minutes)

CDC - 2015

URL Planning health promotion programs

Read from page 1 to page 6. (10 minutes)

Public Health Ontario - 2015

URL Multi-Level, Multi-Component Approaches to Community Based Interventions for Healthy Living—A Three Case Comparison

Read from 3.3.4. Build Synchronization across Levels to the end of the Conclusion. (16 minutes)

NIH - 2016

URL Six Components Necessary for Effective Public Health Program Implementation

Read the entire article. (28 minutes)

PMC National Institutes of Health 2014

URL Theory and methods: Six steps in quality intervention development

Read the steps 1-6. (16 minutes)

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health - 2016

URL The Challenge of Behaviour Change and Health Promotion

Read the entire article. (11 minutes)

MDPI - 2017

URL A Translational Journey: From Basic Behavioral Science to Interventions for Addictive Behaviors

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The video describes a translational research program that explores the application of basic behavioral findings on delay discounting, decision science, and the neural underpinnings of these processes to the development of interventions for alcohol and drug abuse, obesity, and other behavioral risk factors. (60 minutes)

URL Behavioral Health Interventions: What Works and Why?

Read content from beginning until "National Interventions". (44 minutes)

National Academies Press 2004

URL At A Glance: The six steps for planning a health promotion program

Read the entire page. (5 minutes)

Public Health Ontario - 2015

URL Social and Behavioral Change Communication: Programming and Barriers to Implementation in Developing Countries

Read the content under "Barriers to Behavioral Change". (6 minutes)

South American Journal of Public Health - 2014

Module 5: Lesson 2: Evaluation of Public Health Programs, Policies and Interventions URL Building Our Understanding: Key Concepts of Evaluation What is it and how do you do it?

Read content under "What is evaluation?" and "What type of evaluation should I conduct?". (5 minutes)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011

URL Evaluation .

Click on the tab at the top of the webpage titled "Evaluation". Read the content of that web page. Then, click on the links at the bottom of the web page titled "Evaluation Types and Methods", "Preparing and Evaluation Plan", and "Evaluating your Partnership". Read the content of those links as well. (13 minutes)

Missouri Department of Health - 2011

URL 4 Steps to an Evaluation Plan

Read the entire page. (3 minutes)

NIH - 2016

URL Fundamentals of Evaluating Partnership Guide

Read the content on pages 7 to 10. (12 minutes)

CDC - 2008

URL The Role of Behavioral Science Theory in Development and Implementation of Public Health Interventions

Read content under "Reviews of Theory use in Interventions" Pages 5 to 12. (28 minutes)

Annual Review of Public Health 2010

URL American Evaluation Association Statement On Cultural Competence In Evaluation and Essential Practices for Cultural Competence

Read the content under "The Role of Culture and Cultural Competence in Quality Evaluation". (16 minutes)

AEA - 2011

URL Tools for Implementing an Evidence-Based Approach in Public Health Practice

Read the entire article. (29 minutes)

CDC - 2012

URL Evidence-Based Practice in Health

Read the entire article. (6 minutes)

University of Canberra - 2021

Final Assignment URL Understanding and Describing the Community

Read the entire article. (52 minutes)

Center for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas - 2021

URL Intervention Mapping: Theory- and Evidence-Based Health Promotion Program Planning: Perspective and Examples

Read the entire article before attempting the assignment. (30 minutes)

Fronteirs in Public Health - 2019

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