142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Future of Rapid PE and its adaptability to public health

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Destiny Ramjohn, PhD , Dynamics Research Corporation/Engility, Arlington, VA
Fiscal accountability is a top priority for both governmental and non-governmental agencies.  In a resource-constrained environment, the novel approach to rapid evaluation implemented by the Defense Centers of Excellence to evaluate Defense Department psychological health and TBI programs can be adapted to the broader public health community in evaluating and comparing a wide range of programs. This easily modified and flexible rapid evaluation methodology draws on the fundamentals of program evaluation and can be used as a valuable tool for time-sensitive assessment and evaluation of an individual program or a portfolio of public health programs at different stages of maturity. As federal and state governments and public and private institutions increasingly call for evaluation of new and existing programs to ensure program effectiveness, impact, and cost utilization, rapid approaches for evaluating and comparing programs will become more common, particularly in the public health community. As such, benefits for the public health community in adoption of rapid evaluation methodologies will be discussed.

Learning Areas:

Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Program planning

Learning Objectives:
Describe the rapid evaluation process being conducted to evaluate PH and TBI programs within the Defense Department and its adaptability to other programs within a public health context.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to give this specific presentation because I have seven years of specialized experience in the private and public sector designing and overseeing evaluation projects using multiple frameworks, such as the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health and rapid evaluation methodologies for programs of varying size and complexity.
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.