Impact
Measuring workforce development with care
Think Denominator aims to strengthen the public-health workforce, but participation alone is not evidence of learning. Our impact reporting distinguishes between people who register, people who are reached, and people who complete a defined training requirement.
Our impact record is being established. We will publish headline totals after historical records have been reconciled against these definitions. We will not present registrations, estimates or unverified figures as people trained.
What We Measure
People Trained
Unique people who meet the defined completion requirement for at least one course, workshop or other training activity.
Training Completions
The number of completed learning activities. One person may contribute more than one completion while remaining one unique person trained.
People Reached
Unique attendees who engage with a webinar, briefing or other activity but do not meet a defined training-completion threshold.
Trainers Developed
Unique people who complete a defined trainer-development programme and are prepared to support learning in their own setting.
We will also report activities delivered, countries represented and organisations supported where the underlying data are complete enough to do so responsibly.
What Counts as Trained?
A person is counted as trained only after meeting the completion requirement defined for that activity. Depending on the format, this may include:
- attending a specified proportion of a live workshop;
- completing required self-paced modules;
- submitting a core exercise or assessment; or
- completing the practical requirements of a trainer-development programme.
Registration, enrolment or opening a learning resource does not count as training completion.
For self-paced courses, TrainerCentral is the source of truth for enrolment, completion and certificate records. Live workshops use a documented attendance or practical-completion rule. These records are reconciled in the same internal impact register before totals are published.
How We Understand Reach
Aggregate results may be examined by:
- country or geographic region;
- professional category;
- career stage;
- organisation type;
- subject area and learning format; and
- free, subsidised or paid access.
These categories help us understand whom our programmes reach and where access may remain uneven. Missing information is reported as not collected rather than inferred.
Responsible Reporting
Participant records are managed using pseudonymous identifiers. Public reporting uses aggregate figures, and small groups may be combined or withheld where publishing them could identify an individual.
Only verified records with the required aggregate-reporting permission contribute to published indicators. Course page views, unrestricted downloads and incomplete learning are kept outside the headline training totals.
Our approach is guided by three principles:
- Count outcomes, not promotional activity. Registrations and website visits are useful operational measures but are not people trained.
- Separate people from completions. Repeat learning is valuable, but it should not inflate the number of unique people reached.
- Make definitions visible. Every published total should be traceable to a clear counting rule and a reviewed source record.
Building the Evidence Base
As the record matures, this page will report verified headline figures and trends across our learning and capacity-building programme. Evaluation will develop beyond participation counts to include learning, confidence, application in practice and trainer development where suitable evidence is available.