Course Introduction
The Public Health Project Management Course provides a comprehensive framework for professionals responsible for planning, designing, financing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating public health projects and programmes. The course examines how public health priorities can be translated into structured interventions that address disease prevention, health promotion, health-system strengthening, population health, health equity, and improved access to quality health services.
The programme covers the complete public health project lifecycle, beginning with needs assessment, epidemiological analysis, stakeholder engagement, project design, feasibility assessment, budgeting, and resource mobilization. Participants will develop practical knowledge of implementation planning, procurement, workforce management, partnership coordination, risk management, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and sustainability across community, national, regional, and international public health initiatives.
A central focus is placed on evidence-based public health planning and decision-making. Participants will explore how demographic trends, disease burdens, social determinants of health, environmental conditions, behavioural factors, health inequalities, and health-system constraints influence project priorities. The course also examines approaches for designing interventions that are responsive to vulnerable populations, gender considerations, disability, socioeconomic inequalities, geographical disparities, and other determinants of health outcomes.
The course incorporates modern public health technologies and emerging approaches, including digital health, telemedicine, electronic health records, health information systems, geospatial analysis, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, mobile health applications, remote monitoring, and data-driven disease surveillance. Participants will consider how these technologies can improve project targeting, service delivery, early detection, resource allocation, population monitoring, and programme performance while addressing cybersecurity, privacy, interoperability, and digital inclusion.
Participants will strengthen their ability to manage the operational, financial, institutional, and stakeholder dimensions of complex public health projects. Particular attention is given to procurement, budgeting, grant management, quality assurance, workforce planning, health and safety, regulatory compliance, community engagement, safeguarding, and risk management. Practical monitoring and evaluation approaches will enable participants to track outputs, outcomes, health indicators, service quality, beneficiary experience, cost-effectiveness, and longer-term population-level impact.
By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to manage public health projects with greater strategic clarity, operational discipline, and measurable results. They will be able to develop evidence-based project plans, mobilize resources, coordinate multidisciplinary stakeholders, manage implementation risks, leverage digital technologies, strengthen monitoring systems, and develop sustainable interventions that contribute to healthier, more resilient, equitable, and responsive communities.
Duration
5 days
Who Should Attend
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Public health project managers and programme officers responsible for planning and implementing health interventions.
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Government health officials and public-sector professionals working in national, regional, and local health programmes.
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Public health specialists involved in disease prevention, health promotion, health policy, and population health initiatives.
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Representatives of donor agencies, development finance institutions, foundations, and international organizations funding public health projects.
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NGO and civil society professionals implementing community health, disease prevention, health systems, and health promotion programmes.
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Health programme coordinators responsible for maternal health, child health, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, nutrition, or community health.
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Monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning professionals working on health programme performance and impact measurement.
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Health economists, policy analysts, epidemiologists, and researchers involved in evidence-based health project planning.
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Hospital, healthcare, and health-system administrators responsible for managing health improvement and service delivery projects.
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Digital health, health information systems, data management, and health technology professionals supporting public health programmes.
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Procurement, finance, grants, and contract management professionals working on health-sector projects.
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Community development and social mobilisation practitioners involved in public health interventions and behaviour-change programmes.
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Consultants advising governments, NGOs, development partners, and health institutions on public health project development.
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Professionals involved in emergency preparedness, outbreak response, disaster management, and health resilience programmes.
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Health-sector leaders seeking to strengthen project management, governance, financing, implementation, and sustainability capabilities.
Course Objectives
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Develop the ability to assess population health needs, disease burdens, health inequalities, service gaps, and system constraints to establish evidence-based project priorities.
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Design comprehensive public health projects with clear objectives, theories of change, intervention strategies, implementation arrangements, measurable outcomes, and sustainability mechanisms.
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Apply structured project management methods to develop workplans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, procurement plans, responsibilities, and implementation milestones.
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Strengthen skills in designing disease prevention, health promotion, community health, health-system strengthening, and population health interventions.
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Develop practical approaches for stakeholder engagement, community participation, multidisciplinary coordination, partnership management, and institutional collaboration.
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Apply financial management, resource mobilization, procurement, grant management, cost-effectiveness, and fiduciary control principles to public health projects.
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Integrate health equity, gender responsiveness, disability inclusion, safeguarding, human rights, community participation, and social determinants of health into project design.
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Use digital health, artificial intelligence, data analytics, GIS, mobile technologies, health information systems, and emerging technologies to strengthen project delivery.
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Establish robust monitoring, evaluation, learning, quality assurance, and impact measurement frameworks that demonstrate health and programme outcomes.
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Develop risk management, emergency preparedness, sustainability, resilience, scaling, and adaptive management strategies for complex and changing public health environments.
Comprehensive Course Outline
Module 1: Foundations of Public Health Project Management
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Understanding public health project management principles, project lifecycles, health systems, population health, and the relationship between projects and broader health strategies.
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Examining major public health challenges including communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, nutrition, mental health, and environmental health.
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Linking public health projects with national health strategies, universal health coverage, Sustainable Development Goals, health equity, and population health priorities.
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Exploring emerging public health challenges associated with climate change, urbanization, antimicrobial resistance, demographic transitions, digital transformation, and health emergencies.
Module 2: Public Health Needs Assessment and Project Identification
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Conducting epidemiological, demographic, socioeconomic, behavioural, environmental, and health-system assessments to identify priority public health needs.
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Applying disease surveillance, population data, community consultations, health facility assessments, service utilization data, and research evidence to define project priorities.
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Identifying health inequalities and vulnerable populations based on gender, age, disability, geography, income, migration, social status, and other determinants.
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Translating needs assessment findings into project concepts, intervention priorities, target populations, geographic coverage, and preliminary implementation strategies.
Module 3: Public Health Project Design and Planning
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Developing project objectives, theories of change, logical frameworks, results chains, intervention components, outputs, outcomes, and measurable performance indicators.
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Designing evidence-based interventions for prevention, treatment support, health promotion, behavioural change, screening, community health, and health-system strengthening.
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Developing detailed implementation plans covering activities, timelines, staffing, resources, procurement, partnerships, dependencies, and project governance.
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Integrating health equity, gender responsiveness, disability inclusion, safeguarding, community participation, ethics, and human rights into project design.
Module 4: Health Systems Strengthening and Service Delivery
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Assessing health-system capacity across governance, workforce, financing, infrastructure, medicines, equipment, information systems, and service delivery.
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Designing projects that strengthen primary healthcare, referral systems, community health services, quality improvement, and continuity of care.
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Developing approaches for health workforce planning, capacity development, training, supervision, performance management, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
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Applying quality improvement, patient safety, service integration, operational efficiency, and health-system resilience principles to project implementation.
Module 5: Public Health Financing, Budgeting and Resource Management
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Developing public health project budgets covering personnel, equipment, medicines, training, community engagement, technology, monitoring, procurement, and administration.
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Exploring government financing, donor grants, development finance, health funds, philanthropic resources, public-private partnerships, and innovative financing mechanisms.
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Applying financial controls, expenditure tracking, financial reporting, audit requirements, cost-effectiveness analysis, and fiduciary risk management.
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Developing resource mobilization strategies, funding proposals, investment cases, and sustainability plans that support long-term public health interventions.
Module 6: Implementation, Governance and Stakeholder Management
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Establishing effective project governance structures, implementation teams, reporting arrangements, decision rights, accountability mechanisms, and escalation procedures.
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Coordinating ministries, health authorities, healthcare providers, communities, development partners, NGOs, private-sector organizations, researchers, and professional bodies.
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Managing procurement, contracts, grants, consultants, service providers, implementation partners, and technical assistance arrangements within public health projects.
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Applying project management tools including implementation dashboards, work breakdown structures, risk registers, milestone tracking, performance reviews, and adaptive management.
Module 7: Digital Health, Data and Public Health Innovation
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Exploring electronic health records, health information systems, telemedicine, mobile health, digital diagnostics, remote monitoring, and integrated health platforms.
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Applying artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, machine learning, GIS, geospatial mapping, and real-time data to strengthen public health decision-making.
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Addressing data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, interoperability, data quality, ethical technology use, and responsible management of sensitive health information.
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Examining emerging innovations including digital therapeutics, wearable technologies, genomic surveillance, automated disease detection, and technology-enabled population health management.
Module 8: Disease Surveillance, Emergency Preparedness and Health Resilience
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Designing disease surveillance and early-warning systems capable of detecting outbreaks, emerging health threats, and changes in population health patterns.
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Developing emergency preparedness, contingency planning, outbreak response, crisis communication, resource mobilization, and continuity-of-service strategies.
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Integrating climate-related health risks, disaster preparedness, antimicrobial resistance, pandemics, environmental hazards, and other emerging threats into project risk assessments.
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Applying scenario planning, simulation exercises, rapid assessment, emergency coordination, and adaptive management to strengthen health-system resilience.
Module 9: Monitoring, Evaluation, Quality and Impact Measurement
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Developing monitoring frameworks and indicators covering service coverage, quality, utilization, disease outcomes, behavioural change, health equity, and project implementation performance.
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Applying baseline studies, routine health information, surveys, audits, evaluations, tracer studies, cohort analysis, and impact assessment methodologies.
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Establishing data-quality assurance, performance dashboards, beneficiary feedback, patient experience measurement, community accountability, and learning mechanisms.
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Using evaluation findings, implementation evidence, cost-effectiveness data, and stakeholder feedback to improve interventions and support evidence-based decision-making.
Module 10: Sustainability, Equity, Risk Management and Scaling
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Integrating gender equality, disability inclusion, social determinants of health, health equity, community participation, safeguarding, and human rights into sustainable project delivery.
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Identifying and managing clinical, operational, financial, regulatory, technological, environmental, reputational, and stakeholder risks affecting public health projects.
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Developing institutional strengthening, capacity development, financing, ownership, transition, and sustainability strategies that support continuation after project funding ends.
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Designing scaling and replication strategies using evidence, policy integration, partnerships, technology, financing, implementation learning, and health-system strengthening.
Training Approach
This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.
Tailor-Made Course
This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. For further inquiries, please contact us on: Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com Tel: +254 721 331 808
Training Venue
The training will be held at our Upskill Training Centre. We also offer training for a group (at a discount of 10% to 50%) at requested location all over the world. The Onsite course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, buffet lunch, airport transfers, Upskill gift package, and guided tour.
Visa application, travel expenses, dinners, accommodation, insurance, and other personal expenses are catered by the participant
Certification
Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.
Airport Pickup and Accommodation
Airport pickup and accommodation is arranged upon request. For booking contact our Training Coordinator through Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com, +254 721 331 808
Terms of Payment:
Unless otherwise agreed between the two parties’ payment of the course fee should be done 3 working days before commencement of the training so as to enable us to prepare better.
