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CP TIG Week: Helen Singer, Sally Thigpen, and Natalie Wilkins on Understanding Evidence: CDC’s Interactive Tool to Support Evidence-Based Decision Making

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / August 27, 2013 August 27, 2013

Greetings! We are Helen Singer, Sally Thigpen, and Natalie Wilkins from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We are excited to share with you a new tool developed in CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention called Understanding Evidence. Understanding Evidenceis an interactive web resource that supports public health practitioners in making evidence-informed decisions around …

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Jan Losby and Anne Wetmore on whether to survey or not to survey—that is the question

3 Comments / Health Evaluation / January 4, 2012 December 20, 2011

We are Jan Losby (a CDC employee) and Anne Wetmore (an ORISE Fellow), members of the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Surveys can be an important part of your evaluation efforts. As evaluators we have probably all …

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Sharon Smith-Halstead on Storytelling in Evaluation

My name is Sharon Smith-Halstead and I would like to share tools for storytelling for evaluators. Lesson Learned: There is an art to telling stories. Whether you are narrating the story of your grandmother’s journey to America, of your child’s first words, or of the way a program succeeded or failed, there is an art …

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Susan Sloan on CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 9, 2010 July 13, 2010

Hi, my name is Susan Sloan. I’m a program evaluator with about 20 years of experience—first as an evaluation team leader for Duerr Evaluation Resources in California and now as in internal program evaluator for Whatcom County Health Department (WCHD) in the Pacific Northwest. As a small local health department, we are always looking for …

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Tom Chapel on Demand for Evaluation and Great Evaluation Resources

1 Comment / Health Evaluation / May 30, 2010 May 27, 2010

I’m Tom Chapel, the Chief Evaluation Officer (acting) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I’ve also served as co-chair of the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute since its inception. The Institute turns 10 years old this June and, with that in mind, I wanted to share a lesson learned and a couple of great …

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