NNPHI’s Evaluation and Impact team works with federal and foundation partners, member public health institutes and NNPHI project teams to determine how well a public health initiative, program or service is working and can be improved. From identifying needs and solutions to quantifying impact, our findings help our partners make data-informed decisions to improve public health for everyone.
- Local Our experts have served locally in large and small public health departments.
- Lived experiences Our experts live in communities that public health serves.
- Connection From the federal to the local level, we know the end users of our services.
Core capabilities
- Development of evaluation plans and logic models
- Environmental scans, literature reviews and meta-analyses
- Survey development (including instrument design, testing, sampling, respondent recruitment, and fielding)
- Qualitative data collection through virtual and in-person interviews, listening sessions, and focus groups.
- Data management and visualization
- Manuscript development and journal special issue development and publication
- Development of inductive and deductive codebooks and thematic coding
- Descriptive analysis, bivariate, and multivariate analysis, modeling, and hypothesis testing and inference
- Protocol development for IRB and OMB applications
Our team’s approach is informed by utilization-focused evaluation and community based participatory research (CBPR) methods and practices, as we firmly believe that evaluation should be judged on its usefulness to its intended users. This approach bridges the gap between the generation and application of evidence by leveraging evaluation findings to effectively guide program planning, implementation, ongoing improvements and sustainability. Our innovative and practical data collection strategies also ensure that evaluation is timely, efficient, minimizes respondent burden and gives voice to those served by the health services we assess.
Our procedures and protocols are guided by the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) Guiding Principles for Evaluators which include systematic inquiry, competence, integrity, respect for people and common good and equity as well as core values for the professional and ethical conduct of evaluators.
Public health institute experts
We bring rigor and the ability to scale our evaluation projects by accessing more than 12,000 public health experts from our member public health institutes who specialize in epidemiology, biostatistics, econometrics, policy analysis and comparative effectiveness research. Access to these experts adds local expertise to evaluation efforts and allows us to properly scale our projects up or down, and we can be as rigorous with our methods as possible.
From assessing the effectiveness of public health training programs, technical convenings, communities of practice, and national and local level public health program initiatives, we employ both quantitative and qualitative methodologies backed by a team of experts who know how to implement them. With rapid survey capabilities supported by Qualtrics our team is agile and able to move swiftly from survey conception, data collection and analysis to reflecting on findings and constructing actionable recommendations. We also help our partners comply with evaluation requirements such as Institutional Review Board protocols and Paperwork Reduction Act/Office of Management and Budget clearance.
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Meet the Team
