Program Development Using Intervention Mapping - Equity

This course will equip students with the knowledge and skills to apply Intervention Mapping - Equity to co-design health, social care and educational programs that are culturally relevant and grounded in evidence, theory and practice-based knowledge.

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Course date

22 – 24 JUNE 2026

Course delivery

Online via Zoom

Course fees

Without assessment:
$1,800 incl. GST

With assessment:
$3,600 GST-free

10% discount for undergraduate and postgraduate students, Monash University staff and alumni, and Alfred Research Alliance members.

Program contact

shortcourses.depm@monash.edu

Phone: +61 3 9903 0289

Terms and Conditions

Course registration closes one week prior to the course commencement date.

Intervention Mapping is a framework to support effective decision-making when planning, implementing and evaluating health promotion programs. It has been successfully used in a wide range of settings, including health care, social care, and education. Intervention Mapping - Equity extends the Intervention Mapping methodology by supporting program planners to explicitly embed equity across all stages of program planning.  It offers a roadmap from problem identification through to problem-solving or mitigation by combining theory, empirical research, and data from the community to develop new programs that can address the widening gap of inequity across health, social care and education sectors.

Participants are encouraged to bring a program idea to work on during the course, however, case studies will also be available.

Course outline

DAY 1

Intervention Mapping Step 1: Logic Model of the Problem

  • Introduction to Intervention Mapping - Equity (IM-Equity)
  • The IM-Equity Wheel (equity practices, strategies and guiding questions for program planners)
  • Design and advisory groups
  • Conducting a needs assessment
  • Conducting an asset assessment
  • Creating a logic model of the program and program goal

DAY 2

Intervention Mapping Step 2: Program Outcomes

  • Identifying behaviour and environment outcomes, performance objectives and determinants
  • Creating matrices of change objectives
  • Creating a logic model of the change

DAY 3

Intervention Mapping Step 3: Methods and Strategies

  • Co-designing program themes, components, scope and sequence
  • Selecting theory and evidence-based behaviour change methods
  • Developing practical applications

Intervention Mapping Step 4: Program Design

  • Building program structure, materials, messages and protocols
  • Pre-testing and pilot-testing
  • Producing your intervention

Workload requirements and contact hours

Directed learning activities

  • 21 hours of online teaching over 3 days
  • 35 hours assessment preparation and submission for microcredentialing

Self-directed activities

Students will be provided with a handbook of resources and activities, which will require 44 hours of self-directed work

Who should attend?

This three-day course utilises Intervention Mapping, Implementation Science methodologies, and equity theories and frameworks and is designed specifically for professionals developing and implementing interventions in health, social care and education settings.

Accelerate your qualification

Eligible participants who complete the assessed version of this short course may receive 6 credit points towards the Master of Public Health. Valid for 7 years.

Learn more at: monash.edu/pubs/handbooks/courses/M6024.html

Important note: Completion of the assessed version of the short course does not guarantee admission into an award course. For further information regarding admission into the award courses, please contact: pgradenq@monash.edu.

Course facilitators

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