Evidence-Based Decision Making in Public Health: Capacity Building for Public Health Students at King Saud University in Riyadh

Table 2

Supporting courses for evidence-based public health in the MPH/SBCM curricula.

Course	Description of relevant contents	Competences learned
Research methodology	The course describes different types of quantitative and qualitative study designs	Characteristics, applications, and limitations of different study design and their uses as evidence as epidemiological tools to detect and quantify public health problems
Health economics	Principles of health economics	(i) Economic evaluation of intervention; (ii) Choosing between interventions; (iii) Program evaluation
Health policy	Principles of health policy and programs development	Developing and evaluating programs for public health
Health informatics	Surveillance system and registries	Use of local data for quantifying public health problems, monitoring, and evaluation of programs for intervention