253859 Addressing the Challenges in Providing Evidence for Public Health Practice

Monday, October 31, 2011: 2:45 PM

Shawna L. Mercer, MSc, PhD , The Guide to Community Preventive Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
     
This presentation will describe challenges and complexities faced by those who aim to build an evidence base that adequately addresses the real world needs and constraints of community health decision makers. It will discuss how the Community Guide seeks to address those challenges, and will underscore the value of learning from and incorporating both research-tested and practice-based evidence.

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe four key challenges faced by those who aim to build an evidence base that meets the needs and constraints of community health decision makers. 2. Explain how the Community Guide addresses each of these four key challenges, and the resulting implications for community health decision makers. 3. Discuss what is needed to ensure that practice-based evidence can be incorporated alongside research-tested evidence.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I serve as the Director of the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) overseeing all of its science, dissemination, and operations. I have 20+ years experience in working to more effectively bridge the worlds of public health research, practice, and policy including work in research, practice, and policy settings, and as an evaluator.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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