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Leslie McIntosh, MPH, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, Salus Center - Ste. 300, 3545 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, MO 63104, 3149778140, mcintold@slu.edu

The internet has flourished for over a decade with public health agencies relying as much as other industries on the methods of electronic communication. In spite of this, public health literature remains barren of studies which have used electronic communications to assess the impact of trainings. For this case study, we conducted a web-based survey targeting past participants of national and state Evidenced-Based Public Health (EBPH) courses. The participants, the majority of whom worked in public health, had attended the three to four day training from 2001-2003 at Saint Louis University. The survey was conducted in 2005 to evaluate the long-term impact of the EBPH trainings. An invitation to participate in the course evaluation was sent via e-mail with a link to the web survey included in the text. Reminder e-mails were sent to participants who had not responded within two weeks; the total collection time for this evaluation was approximately one month. One hundred seven participants completed the surveys for a response rate of 54%. Results from this study suggest that online web surveys are a viable means of evaluating public health training.

Learning Objectives:

• Increase knowledge of an online survey
• Understand the process of conducting an online survey
• Recognize an area of public health informatics

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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