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Course Description

Course Expectations

Potential participants should apply to the program with a viable policy topic within their area of expertise and of priority to the government. Applicants should have access to local data describing the burden of the health problem targeted by the policy brief, knowledge about current interventions or approaches to the health problem in the country, and ideas about policy options to address it. Each policy topic must have a senior government sponsor who will work with the participant or team to advance policy recommendations in the brief after course completion. The Ministry of Health, together with partners at CDC and Vital Strategies, will assist in screening and selecting participants for the program. Following selection into the program, participants can expect to be involved with the D2P training program for a total of 10 to 12 weeks, which will include an Orientation Day, Online Course, Bootcamp (in some countries), and a two-week In-Class Session (see approximate timeline below). A ‘Final Check’ will guarantee a spot in the in-class session, during which participants will actually write the policy briefs. A brief description of each of these components is below. Participants must satisfactorily complete both the online and in-class components of the D2P training to be considered graduates.

Figure. Approximate timeline of engagement with participants in D2P program. Note that engagement to promote the policy brief continues even after the in-class training.

Online Course

Either individually or as a class, participants will have approximately four weeks to watch seven online modules. Each module has an associated quiz that must be completed individually with all questions answered correctly; however, quizzes can be taken as many times as needed. 

Mentors may work in-person with trainees to revise the Data to Policy: Pre-Course Deliverables document to ensure the policy problem is well-defined, that data needs are clear, root causes are clearly identified, and policy options are viable. 

Bootcamp
(in some countries)

This workshop takes place in-country to review the course in detail with all selected participants. Expectations will be reviewed in terms of time commitment and outputs from participants. At this point, participants will be expected to commit to the program completely.

Orientation Day
Final Check

At this point, the final draft of the Data to Policy: Pre-Course Deliverables document must be submitted by all groups to their respective mentors for a last review.

Participants who satisfactorily complete the Data to Policy: Pre-Course Deliverables document are eligible to continue with the two-week in-class portion of D2P. During this time, they will develop and present their new policy briefs.

In-Class Training

Participants work with mentors to revice Pre Course Deliverables 

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