We are Jennica Nichols and Maya Lefkowich – arts-based evaluators from Vancouver, Canada. Coming into the New Year, we’ve been reflecting on lessons learned over the last year and wanted to share some with you (and welcome your thoughts too). After years of dreaming about an arts-based evaluation company, we finally started one. We launched …
Marcel W. Foster, MPH, here, and I use they/them pronouns. Before jumping into today’s blog (merely a preview of this week’s contributions) – I invite you to take one simple inhale and one simple exhale. via GIPHY It is of course an honor and GEEK TRIUMPH to curate the 2023 Arts, Culture, & Museum (ACM) …
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Hello! We are Alex, John, and Jenica, data science and evaluation specialists with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. We review large sets of qualitative data on a regular basis, and to save time and pull insights we may miss during a manual review, we turn to automation. With recent advances and increased access to automated text analytics …
Hi everyone. My name is Michael Greenberg, and I am a Manager at Deloitte Consulting, LLC. My work focuses on public health research and evaluation and my clients include federal, state, and non-profit agencies seeking to improve the health and well-being of the communities and audiences they serve. I have been doing this work for …
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I’m Shilpa Londhe, a health services research scientist specialized in health equity and maternal health with Deloitte Consulting, LLC. I’m Michele Sadler, a public health researcher specializing in program evaluation and creating data informed insights for practitioners with Deloitte Consulting, LLC. We recently spent time reviewing national survey data to better understand how we might …
Hello! This is Heidi Kahle and Lauren Toledo, evaluators with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. We work with U.S federal health agencies to plan, design, and implement program evaluations. Today, we’re writing with our thoughts on ways to use outcome harvesting (OH) to evaluate interventions, programs, and policies implemented in rapidly changing environments where traditional evaluation methods …
Hi! We are Aundrea Carter and Celeste Chung, evaluators at Deloitte Consulting, LLP and members of the Deloitte’s Evaluation and Research for Action Community of Excellence (ERA COE). Since the pandemic, we have conducted more and more virtual interviews and focus groups for process evaluations. We and our colleagues have experienced various interruptions as we …
Hi! We are Malachi, Chelsie, Gizelle, and Roman, data science and evaluation specialists withDeloitte Consulting LLP. While working on a project pertaining to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA), we realized the impact and benefit that an evaluator’s perspective can have in the DEIA strategic planning process. All too often, in the context of DEIA …
Hello! We are Jenica Reed, John Zimmerman, and Brian Geoghagan, evaluation and data specialists with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. We often discuss with colleagues and clients how to better use technology to improve the quality and efficiency of data gathered, to better inform timely action. Leveraging existing and publicly available data is also often part of …
Vidhya Shanker of Minneapolis here, with another attempt to repair the miseducation of evaluators regarding the contributions of women of color and indigenous women, particularly their understanding of systemic oppression, to evaluation’s history. Today I highlight Dr. Kien Lee, Principal Associate/Vice President of Community Science. Lee has advanced not just a structural analysis, but also a systems-oriented analysis of racial oppression.
