Health Evaluation

Health Evaluation TIG Week: Text Analytics: Automation Can Be a Huge Timesaver by Alex Weckenman, John Zimmerman, and Jenica Reed

Hello! We are Alex, John, and Jenica, data science and evaluation specialists with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. We review large sets of qualitative data on a regular basis, and to save time and pull insights we may miss during a manual review, we turn to automation. With recent advances and increased access to automated text analytics …

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Health Evaluation TIG Week: Virtual Office Work Hacks by Michael Greenberg

Hi everyone. My name is Michael Greenberg, and I am a Manager at Deloitte Consulting, LLC.  My work focuses on public health research and evaluation and my clients include federal, state, and non-profit agencies seeking to improve the health and well-being of the communities and audiences they serve. I have been doing this work for …

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Health Evaluation TIG Week: The Data Utility of Publicly Available Individual-Level Data Sets Capturing Social Determinants of Health by Shilpa Londhe and Michele Sadler

I’m Shilpa Londhe, a health services research scientist specialized in health equity and maternal health with Deloitte Consulting, LLC. I’m Michele Sadler, a public health researcher specializing in program evaluation and creating data informed insights for practitioners with Deloitte Consulting, LLC. We recently spent time reviewing national survey data to better understand how we might …

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Health Evaluation TIG Week: Exploring Outcome Harvesting and New Contexts and Tools by Lauren Toledo and Heidi Kahle

Hello! This is Heidi Kahle and Lauren Toledo, evaluators with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. We work with U.S federal health agencies to plan, design, and implement program evaluations.  Today, we’re writing with our thoughts on ways to use outcome harvesting (OH) to evaluate interventions, programs, and policies implemented in rapidly changing environments where traditional evaluation methods …

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Health Evaluation TIG Week: Lessons Learned from Virtual Interviews and Focus Groups by Aundrea Carter and Celeste Chung

Hi! We are Aundrea Carter and Celeste Chung, evaluators at Deloitte Consulting, LLP and members of the Deloitte’s Evaluation and Research for Action Community of Excellence (ERA COE). Since the pandemic, we have conducted more and more virtual interviews and focus groups for process evaluations. We and our colleagues have experienced various interruptions as we …

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Health Evaluation TIG Week: Designing and Implementing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Initiatives through an Evaluative Lens by Malachi Rice, Chelsie White, Gizelle Gopez, and Roman Mitchell

Hi! We are Malachi, Chelsie, Gizelle, and Roman, data science and evaluation specialists withDeloitte Consulting LLP. While working on a project pertaining to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA), we realized the impact and benefit that an evaluator’s perspective can have in the DEIA strategic planning process. All too often, in the context of DEIA …

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Health Evaluation TIG Week: Social Media Scanning and Analysis: A Strategy to Rapidly Gain Insight into Current and Emerging Trends by Jenica Reed, John Zimmerman, and Brian Geoghagan

Hello! We are Jenica Reed, John Zimmerman, and Brian Geoghagan, evaluation and data specialists with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. We often discuss with colleagues and clients how to better use technology to improve the quality and efficiency of data gathered, to better inform timely action. Leveraging existing and publicly available data is also often part of …

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Visionary Evaluation Week: Being a Visionary Evaluative in the Health Field by Jeanne Ayers

I’m Jeanne Ayers, author of Health: Building Our Power to Create Health Equity, in the new book, Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future. In my day job, I’m the State Health Officer, Division of Public Health for Wisconsin. Public health is what we do collectively to assure the conditions in which we can all …

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Evaluation Accountability: Why Share Early Artifacts of an Evaluation by Goldie MacDonald and Jeff Engel

Hello, we’re Goldie MacDonald, Associate Director for Evaluation in the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Jeff Engel, Executive Director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. We co-chair the Digital Bridge Evaluation Committee comprised of professionals from state and local health departments, federal …

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The Classroom as Clinical Laboratory: Reflections on Community-Based Participatory Narrative Medicine by Jonathan Chou and Ianthe Schepel

We’re Jonathan Chou and Ianthe Schepel, medical students in Los Angeles and Oxford, respectively. We graduated from Columbia University’s master’s program in Narrative Medicine in 2015, and over the last three years, we’ve been developing a new model of narrative medicine practice called “community-based participatory narrative medicine” (CBPNM). In CBPNM, patients and other community members …

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