Evaluation of a federally funded workforce development program: The Centers for Public Health Preparedness

Abstract

The Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) program was a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The program was initiated in 2004 to strengthen terrorism and emergency preparedness by linking academic expertise to state and local health agency needs. The purposes of the evaluation study were to identify the results achieved by the Centers and inform program planning for future programs. The evaluation was summative and retrospective in its design and focused on the aggregate outcomes of the CPHP program. The evaluation results indicated progress was achieved on program goals related to development of new training products, training members of the public health workforce, and expansion of partnerships between accredited schools of public health and state and local public health departments. Evaluation results, as well as methodological insights gleaned during the planning and conduct of the CPHP evaluation, were used to inform the design of the next iteration of the CPHP Program, the Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers (PERLC).

A Framework for Assessing the Performance of Nonprofit Organizations

“…We also reviewed related efforts such as studies of performance measurement focused on a program or case level of analysis but not at the organizational level of analysis (e.g., Crook, Mullis, Cornille, & Mullis, 2005;Hatry, Fisk, Hall, Schaenman, & Snyder, 2006;James, 2001;Poole, Duvall, & Wofford, 2006;Sobelson & Young, 2013) as well as works that focus on a specific aspect of nonprofit performance (e.g., Benjamin, 2012;Ebrahim & Rangan, 2010) such as Eckerd and Moulton's (2011) investigation of how role heterogeneity and external environment influence the adoption and uses of performance measures in nonprofits. These related works did not propose a specific framework of nonprofit performance measurement, which is the focus of this review.…”

Developing Public Health Emergency Response Leaders in Incident Management: A Scoping Review of Educational Interventions

“…As noted, the preponderance of literature included mostly descriptive and qualitative studies as well as narrative and informational articles with relatively few quantitative or data-driven studies. The literature broadly discussed topics of evaluation (n = 89) 6,18,27,77, 132,156,205,208,230,239,244,250,254,287,298,305,325,354,371,385,389,455,475,479,488,489,500,514,539,547,558,565,569,579,584,588,599,601,612,613,622,623,625,628,630,633,635,637,638,652,667,710,732, and effectiveness (n = 59),…”

Service Learning in Public Health: Exploring the Benefit to Host Agencies in CDC's Public Health Associate Program

“…Initial evaluation activities focused on the associates, specifically describing the composition of cohorts, assessing associates’ perspectives of trainings, and documenting the disposition of graduates and alumni. 27 Limited data have been collected on associates’ perceptions of host sites, specifically if associates would recommend their host site to future associates. This study supplements previous activities and helps address the question, “How does PHAP add value to host sites?”…”