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CEA Week: Shana Alford on The Art of Asking the Right Evaluation Questions

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / November 5, 2012 November 2, 2012

Greetings! My name is Shana Alford and I am an internal program evaluator at ACCESS Community Health Network, a 501 (c) federally qualified health center network of more than 40 health centers in under-served communities within the City of Chicago. As an internal evaluator, I objectively analyze how federally funded community health programs are implemented …

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Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton on Creating Standard Operating Procedures for Evaluation Projects

2 Comments / Health Evaluation / November 2, 2012 November 2, 2012

Hello! We’re Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton from the Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. We evaluators have in our minds all the steps required to complete each project, yet we must also consider quality improvement in our work as we think about our methodologies internally and …

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Chelsea Heaven on Why Graduate Students Interested in Evaluation Should Consider Volunteering

Greetings, I am Chelsea Heaven, a recently graduated master’s level biostatistics and public health student. As with many of my fellow recent graduates, I am always on the lookout for as many opportunities as possible to kick-start my young career in statistics and evaluation. A colleague of mine who I work with at my campus’ …

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SWB Week: Jim Cochran on Statistics Without Borders Statistical Capacity Building Efforts

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 27, 2012 July 12, 2012

Hi! I am Jim Cochran, co-founder and the Past Chair of Statistics Without Borders (SWB). SWB’s vision is to achieve better statistical practice, including statistical analysis and design of experiments and surveys, so that international health projects and initiatives are delivered more effectively and efficiently. Lessons Learned: Cultural competence is crucial. As Dominica McBride blogged …

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SWB Week: David Fitch on Efficiency in the Evaluation of Experimental Village Health Programs

1 Comment / Health Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 23, 2012 July 8, 2012

Greetings, I am David J. Fitch, IDIES, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala and a member of SWB. Learning Lessons: UNICEF estimates Cuban and US infant mortality (IM) rates are 6 and 8 per 1,000 live births, showing a better record for a very poor country than a very rich country. Other poor countries and countries giving …

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SWB Week: Gary Shapiro on Volunteering for Statistics Without Borders

1 Comment / Health Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 22, 2012 July 12, 2012

Greetings, I am Gary Shapiro, co-founder and current Chair of Statistics Without Borders (SWB). Recently, we started collaborating with the American Evaluation Association. This week aea365 will feature knowledge and resources from SWB members appropriate for professional evaluators. Tips: What is SWB? SWB is an all-volunteer outreach group of the American Statistical Association. The group …

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MME Week: Terri Anderson on Using Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / July 13, 2012 June 29, 2012

Hello! I’m Terri Anderson, Director for Evaluation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s (UMMS) Center for Health Policy and Research. I want to share our evaluation team’s experience using the National Institute of Health’s guide, Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences, to understand an unexpected evaluation result. When combining survey …

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MME Week: Kristy Moster and Jan Matulis on Pulling It All Together: Creating a Strategy to Transform the Complex to the Coherent

1 Comment / Health Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / July 11, 2012 July 8, 2012

Hi, we’re Kristy Moster and Jan Matulis. We’re evaluation specialists in the Education and Organizational Effectiveness Department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Over the past year, our team has been engaged in the analysis of data from a three-year project with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on quality improvement training in healthcare. The …

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Rashon Lane, Alberta Mirambeau, and Steve Sullivan on an Innovative Method to Evaluate Changes in Public Health Priorities and Activities through Alignment Scoring Analysis

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / June 21, 2012 June 22, 2012

Hello, we are Rashon Lane, Alberta Mirambeau from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Steve Sullivan from Cloudburst Consulting and we work together on an evaluation aimed at assessing the uptake, use and impact of national public health hypertension recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). If you’ve ever wondered how to assess …

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Judy Savageau on The IRB Process in Human Subject Research

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / May 30, 2012 May 21, 2012

Hello! I’m Judy Savageau, faculty, researcher, and IRB representative for the University of Massachusetts Center for Health Policy and Research. I want to bring attention to the need for us to be mindful that our stakeholder groups are often ‘subjects’ in our evaluation research. Why are there ethical concerns? Like research, evaluation involves human subjects. …

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