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
Executive Education in Behavioural Science
At BISI, we translate cutting-edge behavioural research into practical tools for leaders, managers and organisations across sectors.
We offer customised in-company programmes for senior leaders, strategy teams, HR professionals, innovation units and transformation leads across sectors. Each programme is tailored to your sector and strategic priorities.
For enquiries about customised executive education programmes, please contact us at bisi@nus.edu.sg.
Executive Education in Implementation Science
Even the best strategies fail without effective implementation. Implementation science studies how to systematically adopt, integrate and sustain evidence-based practices in real-world settings.
At BISI, we help organisations close the gap between knowing and doing.
We provide executive intensives and customised programmes for executives, change leaders, innovation managers and organisation development professionals across sectors. All programmes are grounded in research and adapted to your organisational context.
For enquiries about customised executive education programmes, please contact us at bisi@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.
Upcoming
Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health: Advanced Methods and Applications
As part of the Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) Post-Conference Workshops.
Led by Prof Nick Sevdalis, A/Prof Robyn Mildon and Dr Laura Martinengo.
This advanced-level course brings together Behavioural and Implementation Sciences to address complex health intervention challenges and research questions. Participants will learn how to select appropriate theories, frameworks, and associated methods to guide implementation planning and evaluation in clinical and population health settings. Through hands-on exercises and case studies, they will develop skills in designing implementation strategies, selecting relevant and feasible measures, and reporting outcomes effectively for both research and practice. Ideal for healthcare leaders, managers, and scientists seeking to translate research into impact, real-world solutions.
Date: 5 September 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 9.00am–5.00pm
Venue: University Town
Fee: Please refer to the BISHAC website here.
Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Textual Data
As part of the Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) Post-Conference Workshops.
Led by Prof Max Bergman.
This full-day workshop offers a practical and conceptually grounded introduction to qualitative thematic analysis for researchers in behavioural and implementation science. Participants will learn how to analyse non-numerical evidence in behaviour change research and implementation studies, including how to prepare data for thematic analysis, code textual and visual material, build a codebook, develop themes, and write up, present, and defend findings that are credible and actionable.
The workshop applies thematic analysis across the qualitative sources researchers in this field routinely encounter, including interview and focus group transcripts with patients, clinicians, and implementers, open-ended responses from process evaluations, diary data, programme documents, social media content relevant to health communication, incident narratives, and policy materials.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to prepare textual data for analysis, conduct a basic thematic analysis, develop and defend themes aligned with research, practice, or policy questions, and apply these skills to qualitative evidence relevant to behavioural and implementation science. Participants are encouraged to bring their own textual datasets.
Date: 5 September 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 9.00am–5.00pm
Venue: University Town
Fee: Please refer to the BISHAC website here.
Behavioural and Implementation Research & Practice Project Clinic
As part of the Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) Post-Conference Workshops.
Led by BISI Centre faculty and affiliates, including Professor David HIPGRAVE, Professor Qian YANG, Associate Professor TAN Woan Shin, Dr. Elaine LUM, Dr. Grace SUM, and more to be announced…
Bring your live project and leave with a clearer path forward. In this clinic-style session, participants present in-progress work for structured group discussion and expert mentoring from our team at BISI and our affiliated members.
During this session, we invite you to submit details on your project (i.e. challenge) from research or practice. We will diagnose implementation bottlenecks, then draw on behavioural and implementation science to sharpen your project design. Dedicated one-on-one sessions with our expert faculty provide personalised guidance tailored to your specific challenges — whether you are designing an intervention, navigating scale-up, or bridging the gap between evidence and practice. By the end of this session, you will receive a concrete diagnosis of a bottleneck in your current project and at least one expert-recommended strategy to address it.
Date: 5 September 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 9.00am–12.30pm
Venue: University Town
Fee: Please refer to the BISHAC website here.
Getting Published: A Journal Editors’ Panel
As part of the Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) Post-Conference Workshops.
Led by Prof Nick Sevdalis, Prof Brian J. Hall, Prof Roman Xu, Prof Leong Ching, Dr Rayner Tan.
Demystifying the publication process for implementation and behavioural science research. In this half-day workshop, a panel of journal editors shares frank, practical guidance on what it takes to get published — from framing a manuscript to navigating peer review. Sessions are designed with early-career researchers and those new to the field in mind, covering what editors look for, common reasons for rejection, and how to position your work at the intersection of behavioural and implementation science. Leave with actionable strategies to strengthen your next submission. Obtain direct insight into how editors at Q1 implementation and behavioural science journals evaluate manuscripts, with actionable framing advice for your next submission.
| Speaker | Journal and Editorial Role |
| Prof Brian J. Hall | Editor-in-Chief of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences |
| Prof Roman Xu | Editor-in-Chief of Implementation Science Communications |
| Prof Nick Sevdalis | Co-Editor-in-Chief Frontiers in Health Services, Implementation Science Section |
| Prof Leong Ching | Editorial board member of Behavioural Public Policy |
| Asst Prof Rayner Tan | Associate Editor at the International Journal of Behavioural Medicine |
Date: 5 September 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 9.00am–12.30pm
Venue: University Town
Fee: Please refer to the BISHAC website here.
Risk Communication in Healthcare
As part of the Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) Post-Conference Workshops.
Led by Prof Leonard Lee and Dr Olivia Jensen.
This workshop is designed for healthcare researchers and practitioners who communicate health risks within their organizations or with members of the public. Leonard Lee and Olivia Jensen from the Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR) at NUS will share key research findings on the drivers of individuals' risk perceptions and protective behaviors. Using real-world cases, they will guide a discussion on the objectives of risk communication in healthcare and consider how to design communication strategies to meet those objectives. Workshop participants will explore the opportunities and challenges of risk communication across face-to-face doctor-patient interactions, informal conversations with family and peers, media coverage, and public health campaigns. The workshop will conclude with an introduction to the Risk Know-how Framework; the instructors will guide participants on where to find additional resources, cases, and materials to support them in communicating risk effectively.
Date: 5 September 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 9.00am–12.30pm
Venue: University Town
Fee: Please refer to the BISHAC website here.
Design Thinking for Behavioural and Implementation Science
As part of the Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) Post-Conference Workshops.
Led by Prof Ayelet Gneezy and Dr Jumana Hashim.
This half-day workshop with Prof Ayelet Gneezy and Dr. Jumana Hashim introduce design thinking as a practical approach to solving complex implementation challenges. Drawing on principles of human-centred design, participants will explore how iterative problem framing, rapid prototyping, and creative testing can strengthen behavioural and implementation science projects. The session bridges rigorous research methodology with applied design practice — offering new tools for those working at the interface of evidence generation and real-world impact. Through this workshop, you will learn how to use a human-centred framework for developing new, or improving existing, research projects targeting behaviour change.
Date: 5 September 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 2.00pm–5.30pm
Venue: University Town
Fee: Please refer to the BISHAC website here.
Cluster-Randomised and Hybrid Trial Designs for Implementation Researchers (Beginner Level)
As part of the Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) Post-Conference Workshops.
Led by Prof Lijing L. Yan.
This workshop introduces researchers new to trial methodology to the fundamentals of pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trials (cRCTs) and hybrid effectiveness-implementation designs. Participants will learn when and why to adopt these approaches, how to select among hybrid trial types, and how to navigate the practical challenges of conducting rigorous trials in complex real-world settings. Drawing on case studies and firsthand experience, the session equips implementation researchers with the methodological grounding to generate policy-relevant, broadly generalisable evidence.
Date: 5 September 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 9.00am–12.30pm
Venue: University Town
Fee: Please refer to the BISHAC website here.
From Insight to Intervention: A Behavioural Design Sprint for Health
As part of the Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) Post-Conference Workshops.
A mini-nudgeathon for designing practical, testable behaviour-change interventions.
Led by Prof Ivo Vlaev.
Many health challenges persist not because people lack information, but because everyday environments, routines, incentives, social norms, and cognitive biases make the desired behaviour difficult to perform. This interactive 4-hour workshop introduces participants to a practical behavioural design method for turning health-system challenges into testable interventions.
Drawing on nudge theory, the MINDSPACE framework, and real-world health applications, participants will learn how to move from a broad problem — such as improving adherence, uptake, patient flow, screening, or staff practice — to a clearly defined target behaviour, a behavioural diagnosis, and a feasible intervention concept. Working in small groups, participants will develop and refine intervention ideas, then stress-test them using the APEASE criteria: Acceptability, Practicability, Effectiveness, Affordability, Spillover effects, and Equity.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to translate complex health challenges into specific target behaviours, apply behavioural diagnosis techniques, use MINDSPACE and nudge principles to design context-sensitive interventions, and assess intervention options against practical implementation criteria. Each group will leave with a structured intervention concept and a realistic plan for testing it in practice.
Date: 5 September 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 9.00am–12.30pm
Venue: University Town
Fee: Please refer to the BISHAC website here.
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 2027 intake will open soon.
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 also covered scale up and sustainability, referred to as implementability, from the start.
Interviewing and Focus Groups for Healthcare Professionals
The goals of this workshop include designing and running interviews and focus groups for healthcare and public health contexts including time pressure, hierarchy, sensitive topics, inclusion and equity considerations, limited budgets, power differentials, and governance constraints. Participants will build a context-specific and culture-sensitive topic guide, practise facilitation and interviewing techniques, and leave with templates for diverse patient, community, and workforce settings.
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.
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.
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.
Rapid Evaluation and Implementation in Public Health: From Evidence to Policy and Practice
This course introduces participants to the principles, methods, and practical applications of rapid public health policy evaluation, a methodological approach designed to generate actionable evidence within constrained timeframes. Drawing on established frameworks, case studies, and applied examples, the course will examine how evaluation questions can be appropriately scoped, how existing and routinely collected data sources can be leveraged, and how methodological trade-offs are managed in rapid evaluations. Participants will examine quasi-experimental study designs, assess threats to validity, and apply causal reasoning to complex interventions where randomized trials are often infeasible. Through applied case studies and hands-on design exercises, the course focuses on translating empirical findings into actionable policy recommendations while maintaining methodological rigour and transparency.
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.
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.
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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.
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.