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Health Evaluation

Robin Kelly on A Tip on Activating Your Cultural Intelligence

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, Internal Evaluation / April 23, 2012

Hi, I am Robin Kelly; I work as an internal evaluator for the National Minority AIDS Council, which is a federally funded nongovernmental organization that provides capacity building assistance to community based organizations and health departments that have programs or interventions to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I mention it because we work in communities of …

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Corrie Whitmore on Framing an Evaluation Conversation for Programs with Fuzzy Goals

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Internal Evaluation / May 12, 2012

I’m Corrie Whitmore, an internal evaluator working for Southcentral Foundation. SCF is an Alaska Native Owned and Operated healthcare organization serving approximately 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and 60 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit. Our organization has had program evaluation in-house since 2009, so our small …

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WE Week: Sue Griffey on Free, Online (No-Install) Resources for Evaluator Efficiency

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Independent Consulting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 18, 2012

I’m Sue Griffey, Director of the Evaluation Center in the Public Health Research group at Social & Scientific Systems in Silver Spring (MD) and blogger at Sue Mentors. It never fails that the time that I’m crunching at a deadline for getting a report or presentation done is when I need to do something that I …

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Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Evaluation

5 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / April 3, 2012

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  Using culturally appropriate approaches when conducting research and evaluation in multicultural settings, is widely accepted and essential. The cultural competence approach serves as the specific framework when conducting evaluations. This approach alone, …

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Bloggers Series: Catherine (Brehm) Rain on The Evaluation Forum

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Independent Consulting / February 7, 2012

My name is Catherine (Brehm) Rain, Vice President of Rain & Brehm Consulting Group, Inc., an independent evaluation and consulting firm located in Rockledge, Florida.  I blog at The Evaluation Forum. Rad Resource – The Evaluation Forum: New to our website, The Evaluation Forum focuses on the why and wherefore of evaluation of health promotion …

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Linda Cabral, Laura Sefton, and Kathy Muhr on Recruiting People with Mental Health Conditions for Data Collection

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation / March 9, 2012

Hello! We are Linda Cabral, Laura Sefton and Kathy Muhr from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. We recently completed an evaluation project that involved recruiting people with mental health conditions to participate in individual interviews, focus groups, and surveys regarding their experiences with a mental health …

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Stacy Johnson, Jill Lipski Cain and Liz Radel Freeman on Community Mapping

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology, Health Evaluation / March 5, 2012

We are Stacy Johnson, Jill Lipski Cain, and Liz Radel Freeman from the Improve Group in Saint Paul, MN. The Improve Group works with organizations to make the most of information, navigate complexity and ensure their investments of time and money lead to meaningful, sustained impact. Last November at Evaluation 2011, we presented on a …

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Laura Sefton on Searching for Grant Funding Opportunities

1 Comment / Health Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / April 3, 2012

Hi! My name is Laura Sefton. I’m a Research Coordinator in the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Funding for many of our research and evaluation projects comes from many sources, including state, federal, and foundation grants and contracts. Part of my role is to assist staff in finding the …

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Bloggers Series: Charles Gasper on The Evaluation Evangelist

5 Comments / Health Evaluation / January 6, 2012

My name is Charles Gasper and I am the Director of Evaluation for the Missouri Foundation for Health.  I also Blog under the name of The Evaluation Evangelist and can be found on Twitter and Facebook.  Below, you will find some painful lessons and hopefully useful resources. Rad Resource – The Evaluation Evangelist: My blog …

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

3 Comments / Health Evaluation, Theories of Evaluation, Uncategorized / April 3, 2012

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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