Program Evaluation
How do organizations know if their programs are producing the results they are working to achieve? The answer: program evaluation.
Limited funding is always an issue. Public health programs require a great deal of materials, coordination, and staff time. Every component of a public health program requires financial support, but 
one essential piece of public health programs that is often ignored is evaluation. All too often at the end of the project period, personnel cannot answer the simple question of what impact the program efforts had on the intended audience.
The purpose of program evaluation is to document and understand a program's impact. This educates program planners and participants about successes and weaknesses within the program for strengthening future programs or program expansions. It also enables public health practitioners to provide evidence-based results to stakeholders about the usage of specific public health dollars and help determine the uses of future funding.
Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) >>
NWCPHP faculty is actively participating in PHAB organization and direction, as well as providing support to three PHAB beta sites in our region. Read more >>
King County Healthcare Coalition >>
One of NWCPHP's most recent program evaluation projects was for Public Health - Seattle & King County to evaluate the King County Healthcare Coalition and seven of its projects. Read more >>
Regional public health preparedness >>
We have also done extensive program evaluation work within the region regarding public health preparedness to evaluate regional public health preparedness. Read more >>
