Effectiveness of an online public health course: A prospective evaluation study from India

A prospective study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of learning from an online public health course (6th International Course on Public Health Approaches to Noncommunicable Diseases) among participants from India. The knowledge significantly improved after attending the online public health practice course (P < 0.05) and remained without any significant change over the period of time till 6 months after the online course (P = 0.988). Majority of the respondents were applying the learnings from the course in their program management (64.7%-89.3%). Online delivery of public health courses in India has shown to improve knowledge and maintain the acquired knowledge.