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Framework for policy evaluation by Christy King

Hi, I’m Christy King an internal evaluator on PA’s state GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) grant and a doctoral candidate at Immaculata University. For my dissertation, I investigated the implementation of emotional support animal policies on college campuses and the resulting staff experiences. After an extensive search for a theoretical …

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Oregon Evaluators Week: Targeting your Professional Development by Kendra Lodewick

My name is Kendra Lodewick, and I’m owner and principal of Program and Policy Insight (PPI), a federally and state-certified woman-owned small business based in Portland that provides evaluation, applied research, technical assistance and capacity building services to community organizations, program funders, and government agencies.   Rad Resource. As a small business, I am often searching …

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Memorial Day Week: Evaluation Reflections by Michael Quinn Patton

I’m Michael Quinn Patton director of Utilization-Focused Evaluation. I’m curating AEA365 in conjunction with the Memorial Day holiday in the USA which officially honors those who died in military service. It originated after the Civil War (1861-1865) in which 750,000 soldiers died and slavery was ended. It became an official federal holiday in 1971 and …

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CDC Week: Using Funding Proposals as an Evaluation Lever by Dan Kidder

My name is Dan Kidder, and I’m the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit Lead in CDC’s Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO). CDC is a large and decentralized organization. More than 90 divisions do our work, and more than two-thirds of CDC funding goes to support frontline work at state, local, and tribal health departments; ministries …

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CDC Week: Reflecting on our Practice: CDC’s Evaluator Self-Assessment by Sarah Gill

My name is Sarah Gill, and I’m a behavioral scientist on the evaluation team in CDC’s Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO). Our team works across the Agency to build evaluation capacity in public health programs. In addition to providing training and consultations, we create evaluation resources, like the checklists Tom mentioned in Tuesday’s post. …

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CDC Week: User-Friendly, Accessible Guidance–Framework Checklists by Tom Chapel

My name is Tom Chapel, and I’m CDC’s Chief Evaluation Officer. CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health is the source document for how our programs and funded partners conduct evaluations. The Framework was first published as a scientific article–it wasn’t intended to be user-friendly guidance. Over time, we’ve created resources that are more …

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CDC Week: CDC’s Evaluation Fellowship Program—Creating Infectious Agents for Good Evaluation Practice by Sarah Gill

I’m Sarah Gill, and I work in CDC’s Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO), which is home to CDC’s Evaluation Fellowship Program. Today I’ll talk about how a simple change in the way PPEO interacts with CDC programs has produced powerful changes in their interest in and ability to do evaluation. It may offer lessons …

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CDC Week: CDC’s Evaluation Framework Turns 20! A Time for Reflection by Tom Chapel

My name is Tom Chapel, and I’m the Chief Evaluation Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As Dan mentioned yesterday, the 1999 publication of the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health was the impetus for the integration of evaluation with program planning and execution at CDC. Right now we’re …

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CDC Week: CDC’s Path to Improving Program Evaluation by Dan Kidder

My name is Dan Kidder, and I’m the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit Lead in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO). In 2019, CDC is marking the 20th anniversary of the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health. This week, we’ll share some history, lessons learned, resources, and …

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Alberta Mirambeau on Program Stakeholders and Evaluation Stakeholders

My name is Alberta Mirambeau and I am an ORISE fellow on the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I provide evaluation technical assistance to state-funded programs that implement heart disease and stroke prevention activities. Our team uses the …

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