Public Health

Julie Goldman on Public Health Resources to Support Evaluation Work

Hello! I’m Julie Goldman, a librarian at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Lamar Soutter Library. I want to introduce you to a number of high-quality public health resources, most of them freely available, and all that can help you as evaluators understand and support your communities, your research, and your work. Public health information …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Leah Christina Neubauer and Suzanne Carlberg-Racich on Evaluation and Public Health: Examining MPH Coursework, Curriculum & Culminating Experiences

We are Leah Christina Neubauer and Suzanne Carlberg-Racich from Chicago. Neubauer is based in DePaul’s MPH Program and is President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA).  Carlberg-Racich is a Visiting Assistant Professor in DePaul’s MPH Program. We are both interested in evaluation-related coursework, curriculum, and culminating experiences in Master of Public Health (MPH) programs.  In the …

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CP TIG Week: Susan Wolfe on Presenting Data on Health Disparities

My name is Susan Wolfe and I am the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles to strengthening organizations and communities.  Most of the evaluation work I do is with federally funded Healthy Start programs that are working to reduce disparities in infant mortality rates. According to …

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Clare Nolan on Transforming Health Care: Evaluating Accountable Care Organizations

My name is Clare Nolan and I work for Harder+Company Community Research, a national consulting firm that specializes in evaluation.  For the past 27 years, we have helped foundations, government agencies, and nonprofits plan and evaluate programs and policies. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) mark a new frontier in how healthcare is delivered in the United …

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Catherine (Brehm) Rain on Grasshopper Moments: The Kung-Fu Masters of Process Evaluation

I’m Catherine (Brehm) Rain of Rain and Brehm Consulting Group, Inc., an independent research and evaluation firm in Rockledge, Florida. I specialize in Process Evaluation, which answers the questions Who, What, When, Where and How in support of the Outcome Evaluation. Field evaluations occur in chaotic environments where change is a constant. Documenting and managing …

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

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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Jim Burdine on Presenting Community Assessment Data to its Community – What to Present

I’m Jim Burdine, Assistant Dean for Public Health Practice and Co-PI/Director of a Prevention Research Center at the School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M. Over the last 30 years I’ve used community health status assessment as both a community organizing tool and intervention planning tool. In more than 200 different communities (including multiple iterations …

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Tom Chapel on Demand for Evaluation and Great Evaluation Resources

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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