BISI supports education and training in behavioural and implementation science at the School of Medicine in multiple ways:
- Undergraduate education: In 2019, BISI launched a successful pilot programme introducing Behavioural and Implementation Science as part of an elective pathway for medical undergraduates, and continues expanding course offerings that bring new skills and perspectives to future cohorts of doctors.
- Faculty workshops: BISI conducts workshops for interested faculty and healthcare leaders who are keen to explore behavioural and implementation science as part of their research or in their pursuit of evidence-based practices
- Continuing professional education (CET): BISI’s mission includes the development of behavioural and implementation science capacities among healthcare professionals across various sectors, through publicly available course offerings at NUS or customised learning experiences. All inquiries are welcomed!
Courses & Workshops
Upcoming
Master of Science in Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health (MScBIS)
BISI has launched the very first of its kind Master of Science degree programme in Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health. Click here to find out more about the programme.
Applications for the August 2026 intake has opened. Apply now!
Precision Nudging for Health-Behaviour Interventions
Most digital health campaigns rely on generic reminders, but the Personalisation Nudge (PeN) framework provides a structured way to personalise prompts while navigating real clinical constraints such as small samples, ethics oversight, and transparent decision rules. This masterclass helps clinicians, programme leads, and digital-health designers map interventions across six PeN levels, choose suitable empirical methods using a four-step decision aid, and design pilot plans that balance rigour, technological complexity, and patient safety. No coding expertise is required and demonstrations use interactive dashboards with optional code walkthroughs. Participants also receive follow-up R/Python notebooks for deeper exploration.
📅 Date: 11 May 2026 (Monday)
🕘 Time: 9.00am–5.00pm
📍 Venue: MD6-01-01B
💰 Fee: S$950 + GST
Special Bundle Rate @ S$2,200 + GST till 28 January 2026
Includes three courses:
- Introduction to Behavioural Decision Science
- Nudge Theory in Action: How Small Changes Drive Big Results in Health, Business, and Policy
- Precision Nudging for Health-Behaviour Interventions
More details here: Infosheet
Click here to register.
Registration closes on 4 May 2026 (Monday).
For enquiries, contact Fairuz at fairuzr@nus.edu.sg.
Nudge Theory in Action: How Small Changes Drive Big Results in Health, Business, and Policy
Unlock how small behavioural shifts create big impact in organisations and society. This one-day workshop introduces behavioural economics and nudge theory, showing how choice architecture can make better decisions easier and more natural. Through a blend of theory, hands-on exercises, and collaborative problem-solving, participants will learn practical behaviour change strategies to improve motivation, productivity, and decision-making. The session features the MINDSPACE framework, developed by Professor Ivo Vlaev for the UK government and applied globally across policy, health, and organisational settings. You’ll work on real-world challenges and leave with actionable tools to design effective, human-centred interventions in your workplace.
📅 Date: 21 April 2026 (Tuesday)
🕘 Time: 9.00am–5.00pm
📍 Venue: Shaw Foundation Alumni House, Sage Room
💰 Fee: S$950 + GST
Special Bundle Rate @ S$2,200 + GST till 28 January 2026
Includes three courses:
- Introduction to Behavioural Decision Science
- Nudge Theory in Action: How Small Changes Drive Big Results in Health, Business, and Policy
- Precision Nudging for Health-Behaviour Interventions
More details here: Infosheet
Click here to register.
Registration closes on 14 April 2026 (Monday).
For enquiries, contact Fairuz at fairuzr@nus.edu.sg.
Introduction to Behavioural Decision Science
Behavioural economics sits at the intersection of economics, psychology, and data science, and has become a powerful tool used by governments to address societal issues and by businesses to enhance customer experience and decision-making. This masterclass introduces core economic theories of rational choice and contrasts them with how people actually behave. By integrating psychological insights, it explains how people perceive money, time, risk, products, and social interactions — and how these perceptions shape consumer, managerial, and policy decisions. Participants will gain general principles about how the mind works, why preferences shift and forecasts fail, and how decision processes can be improved across sectors.
📅 Date: 6 February 2026 (Friday)
🕘 Time: 9.00am–5.00pm
📍 Venue: Shaw Foundation Alumni House, Sage Room
💰 Fee: S$850 + GST
Special Bundle Rate @ S$2,200 + GST till 28 January 2026
Includes three courses:
- Introduction to Behavioural Decision Science
- Nudge Theory in Action: How Small Changes Drive Big Results in Health, Business, and Policy
- Precision Nudging for Health-Behaviour Interventions
More details here: Infosheet
Click here to register.
Registration closes on 28 January 2026 (Wednesday).
For enquiries, contact Fairuz at fairuzr@nus.edu.sg.
Introduction to Behavioural Science Methodology
This half-day course offers practical introduction designed to provide participants with an overview of the core methodological approaches of behavioural science principles. The course will cover the fundamental steps of the behavioural science approach, focusing on how to diagnose a problem, generate testable hypotheses, and construct an effective design. We will discuss the importance of control conditions and randomisation, the foundation for assessing causality in experimental designs. A strong emphasis will be placed on understanding reliability and validity, and common biases that influence both subjects and researchers, as well as the critical importance of measurement and evaluation to determine an intervention's success and generalisability.
📅 Date: 10 December 2025 (Wednesday)
🕘 Time: 9.00am–1.00pm
📍 Venue: MD6-01-02 Seminar Room
💰 Fee: S$300 + GST (Special Rate)
Click here to register.
Registration closes on 5 December 2025.
For enquiries, contact Fairuz at fairuzr@nus.edu.sg.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
BISI's PhD programme is part of the NUS Medicine Graduate Programme, which is administered by the Division of Graduate Studies (DGS). Apart from the MScBIS programme, students can also be enrolled into the PhD programme under DGS.
Students will be engaged in supervised research with a member of the BISI faculty as the primary thesis advisor for their candidature, at the end of which, they submit a thesis that is examined by a Board of Examiners. There is no specialisation of the degree awarded.
For more details, please check out our PhD Info Sheet.
Interested in learning more about potential thesis topics? Please reach out to us at bisilearning@nus.edu.sg for more information!
For any enquiries pertaining admission criteria, please email Ms. Yumi Li at yumili@nus.edu.sg.
Past
Design and Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Mental Health
This course covers methods to design and evaluate interventions to improve mental health, within mental health services, primary care or at population level.
The complexity of effective mental health interventions requires collaboration from an early stage across academic disciplines, and amongst stakeholders such as people who may benefit from the intervention, their informal supporters, academics, clinicians, service managers and policymakers.
The course will also cover scale up and sustainability, referred to as implementability, from the start.
Click here for more information and to register.
Approaches in Behavioural and Implementation Science: Enhancing Healthcare Implementation through Better Design and Evaluation
This intermediate-level course delves deeper into Behavioural and Implementation Sciences, focusing on advanced strategies to optimise the adoption and sustainability of evidence-based interventions in clinical settings. Participants will gain expertise in not only designing tailored implementation strategies but also in rigorously evaluating the impact and effectiveness of implementation.
Click here to register.
For more information, email medv3772@visitor.nus.edu.sg.
An Introduction to the Use of Behavioural and Implementation Sciences to Improve Health Outcomes
The objective of this in-person, beginner course will introduce participants to Behavioural and Implementation Science and the ways they can help to increase the adoption of evidence-based interventions in clinical settings. Our experience trainers will provide healthcare leaders and managers with case examples and strategies to improve uptake of interventions into routine practices, thereby increasing public health impact and bridging the research-to-practice gap.
Realist Tools for Better Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis
Realist evaluation is a rapidly developing method for undertaking ‘theory-based’ evaluation. In this approach, evaluations are oriented towards developing, testing and refining programme theories, or models that explain how and why interventions, policies and programmes generate the impacts they set out to achieve. Realist evaluation and its counterpart in systematic reviews, realist synthesis, draw on a set of powerful analytic and conceptual tools that can generate impact and understanding. In this short course, we will explore the foundations of realist evaluation and realist synthesis, and experiment with developing our own realist-informed programme theories.
Approaches in Behavioural and Implementation Science: Enhancing Healthcare Implementation through Better Design and Evaluation
This intermediate-level course delves deeper into Behavioural and Implementation Sciences, focusing on advanced strategies to optimise the adoption and sustainability of evidence-based interventions in clinical settings. Participants will gain expertise in not only designing tailored implementation strategies but also in rigorously evaluating the impact and effectiveness of implementation.
Design and Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Mental Health
This course covers methods to design and evaluate interventions to improve mental health, within mental health services, primary care or at population level.
The complexity of effective mental health interventions requires collaboration from an early stage across academic disciplines, and amongst stakeholders such as people who may benefit from the intervention, their informal supporters, academics, clinicians, service managers and policymakers.
The course will also cover scale up and sustainability, referred to as implementability, from the start.
Casual Inference Methods for Promoting Behavioural and Implementation Change in Health: Insights from Observational Studies and Harnessing Population Heterogeneity in Experiments
Come join Prof Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri and Dr Ioannis Bakolis for an exciting day of learning about essential concepts relating to Behavioural interventions for health and review state-of-the-art statistical design and analysis for effective implementation research.
An Introduction to the Use of Behavioural and Implementation Sciences to Improve Health Outcomes
As healthcare systems and healthcare workers work under increasingly dynamic and resource-constrained conditions, we need to reconceptualise healthcare and design interventions that are effective and sustainable for the population in the long run. The objective of this in-person course is to introduce participants to frameworks in Behavioural and Implementation sciences and ways to apply them. Our experienced trainers will provide healthcare leaders and managers with case examples and strategies to improve uptake of interventions into routine practices, thereby increasing public health impact and bridging the research-to-practice gap.
This course is a collaboration between NUS Medicine Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI) and Centre for Evidence and Implementation (CEI).
An Introduction to the Use of Behavioural and Implementation Sciences to Improve Health Outcomes
As healthcare systems and healthcare workers work under increasingly dynamic and resource-constrained conditions, we need to reconceptualise healthcare and design interventions that are effective and sustainable for the population in the long run. The objective of this in-person course is to introduce participants to frameworks in Behavioural and Implementation sciences and ways to apply them. Our experienced trainers will provide healthcare leaders and managers with case examples and strategies to improve uptake of interventions into routine practices, thereby increasing public health impact and bridging the research-to-practice gap.
Behavioural and Implementation Science for Health and Healthcare Services
This live-online course offers an introduction to behavioural and implementation science, and provides leaders and managers within the healthcare system with strategies to improve the uptake of interventions into routine practices, thereby increasing public health impact.
BIS Summer Institute for Students - Phase I
Behavioural and Implementation Science Pathway for First Year Undergraduate Medical Students.
BIS Summer Institute for Students -
Phase II
Behavioural and Implementation Science Pathway Undergraduate Education for Second Year Medical Students - How do we best translate evidence-based principles and practices into real-world systems and settings?
VECTor Workshop
This workshop focused on the core skills needed for leaders and managers within the healthcare system in order to adopt an evidence-based approach to the design and deployment of interventions on the ground.
BIS Summer Institute for Students - Phase I
Behavioural and Implementation Science Pathway for First Year Undergraduate Medical Students.