Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health: Advanced Methods and Applications

Programme Highlights

As healthcare systems grow in complexity and the demands on healthcare providers become increasingly intense, it is crucial to refine our approaches to healthcare delivery and develop interventions that are both effective, as well as scalable and sustainable over time.

This advanced-level course offers a joint application of the related fields of Behavioural and Implementation Sciences, to address complex implementation challenges and research questions. The course centres on how to select suitable theories and frameworks, and their associated methods and metrics, to guide implementation applications and support implementation research and evaluation projects in clinical and population health settings.

Participants will develop skills in identifying appropriate frameworks, developing implementation plans and study designs for complex heath interventions, selecting feasible and relevant measurements and reporting research and evaluation results in a robust and defensible manner – for both research and practice purposes.

Through case studies and hands-on exercises, healthcare leaders, managers and scientists will have an advanced toolkit to bridge the gap between research and practice.

Benefits of Attending

• Build an understanding of key considerations in selecting theories and frameworks of Behavioural and Implementation Sciences suitable for the aims and goals of a health project.
• Understand the nature and differences between process, explanatory and evaluation frameworks for implementation planning and research design.
• Develop the skills to combine effectively well-established implementation frameworks of different types, into implementation plans and study designs. Examples of implementation frameworks are, e.g.:
  a) CFIR – Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research
  b) COM-B – Capability (C), Opportunity (O), and Motivation (M), three key factors capable of changing behaviour (B)
  c) QIF – Quality Implementation Framework
  d) RE-AIM – Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance
• Become familiar with the application of framework-supported mixed methods for data collection in implementation studies and evaluations
• Apply the novel concept of ‘hybrid’ effectiveness-implementation design, and its variants, to design, implement, and assess the effectiveness of behavioural and implementation strategies in real-world healthcare contexts.

Who Should Attend

All healthcare professionals and healthcare-related job roles.
Researchers and research-related job roles.

Pre-Requisites and Assessment

General degree in any discipline.

Assessment: Online Test

Awards and Certification

All participants will receive a Certificate of Completion upon passing all assessment components and completing the course. 

Course Fee

• Early Bird Offer: $1260 (excluding GST). 
• Early Bird Promo Period: Till 25 Aug 2025.
• Full Price: $1575 (excluding GST) applies from 26 Aug 2025 onwards.