This interactive one-day workshop (held in May 2008) provides tools for community organizations and health educators to plan health promotion programs. It covers how to find, select and adopt or adapt evidence-based programs (programs shown to be effective by research).
Through the workshop, participants learn how to:
- define the term evidence-based,
- describe the benefits of using evidence-based programs,
- describe resources and methods for collecting needs assessment data about their community,
- locate evidence-based strategies or programs that meet their program’s goals and objectives,
- identify what elements of an intervention can and cannot be changed when adapting an evidence-based program, and
- conduct process and outcome evaluation for their program
The workshop uses case studies and exercises from chronic disease and cancer prevention that provide hands-on applications for planning an evidence-based health program. The strategies and skills from this workshop can be applied to a broad range of health promotion topics.
The workshop helps participants to:
- start program planning with known public health strategies that have been found to work,
- know where to find examples of programs that work in your topic area of interest, and
- save time on materials development through program resources discussed in the training.
For those planning to apply to the mini-grants program, these workshop materials will help you to prepare your application.
Presenters:
- Cam Escoffery, PhD, MPH, CHES – Assistant Professor, Emory Rollins School of Public Health
- Michelle Carvalho - Emory Cancer Prevention & Control Research Network, Coordinator
- Candace Marshall, MPH – Cancer Information Service, Partnership Program Coordinator
For more information, contact Michelle Carvalho at mlcarva@sph.emory.edu or 404-712-8795.
The Emory Prevention Research Center and the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network are members of the Prevention Research Centers Program, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreement number U48 DP000043. The findings and conclusions on these pages are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
