Training
Public
health training centers
HRSA lists a number of Public Health Training Centers
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/publichealth/phtc.htm
some of which are listed below and some offer free classes.
PublicHealthLearning.com, http://publichealthlearning.com/Public/default.aspx
a collaboration between the Mid-America Public Health
Training Center (MAPHTC) and the Illinois Public Health Preparedness
Center (IPHPC). Has these classes: Data Analysis and Causal Inference,
Epidemiological Methods, GIS, Regression, Evaluating Public Health
Programs.
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice http://www.nwcphp.org/training
has a class on data analysis, program evaluation and environmental
health, and logic models.
The New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce
Development http://www.bu.edu/publichealthworkforce/index.html
has one class: Evaluation in a nutshell.
South Central Public Health Partnership http://www.southcentralpartnership.org/
has one on line class on needs assessment and evaluation.
North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training Web
Site http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/training/index.php
has training on evaluation, epi-info, epidemiology, statistics, gis.
Others
On line classes
Areol, action research and evaluation http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/areol/areolhome.html
This on line class is a 14-week public course offered each semester as
a public service by Southern Cross University and the Southern
Cross Institute of Action Research
Evaluation: A Tool for Program Improvement http://www.jrsa.org/pubs/juv-justice/tutorial/tutorial.html
From the Justice Research and Statistics Association's (JRSA).
You can
get a certificate after completing the tutorial.
The Global Health Learning Center http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm
also has one class on monitoring and evaluation, prepared by some folks
at Measure. This site is partly from USAID
MEASURE http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/training/mentor
"Evaluation makes available free training materials and tools on
M&E topics for use by researchers, program managers, trainers,
policy makers, students, and other public health professionals."
TRAIN https://www.train.org/DesktopShell.aspx
A free service of the Public Health Foundation. This site lists
classes offered elsewhere. You can find
classes
on stats, epi, evaluation and related. They generally list classes from
UNC and other public health training centers. I'm not exactly clear on
whether anyone can take these classes.
Unicef http://www.ceecis.org/remf/Service3/unicef_eng/index.html
monitoring and evaluation training module, in English, and http://www.ceecis.org/remf/Service3/unicef_rus/index.html
in Russian.
http://alison.com/ "ALISON
enables
anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves via interactive multimedia for
FREE." Alison.com is the provider of classes. Trainers and
organizations pay a small fee to provide classes
for their people, but people can take classes for free. Currently
no evaluation classes, but perhaps sometime.....
On line lectures, pdfs,
slideshows
Introduction to program evaluation http://www.cdc.gov/tb/Program_Evaluation/default.htm#Introduction
near the bottom.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's
OPENCOURSEWARE http://ocw.jhsph.edu/Topics.cfm
has a couple of classes about program evaluation. But these are
basically pdf files of the lectures used in classes.
Kevin Morrell http://www.kevinmorrell.org.uk/Handouts.htm
has a bunch of slideshows about research methods
Self study evaluation modules http://www.uwex.edu/impacts/evaluation-modules/
so far as I can tell, mainly slides of information, but probably good
for beginners.
Pitt's Supercourses http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/
has hundreds of on line slideshow lectures. A lot are about
epidemiology, and a few about evaluation. For example:
Introduction to program evaluation http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0991/index.htm
Evaluation and Evaluative Research in
Healthcare http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec9671/index.htm
A primer in surveys http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0482/index.htm
Survey sample size http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0542/index.htm
Surveillance http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec11091/001.htm
This page http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/assist/topicsearch.htm
lists a bunch in epi
However, the good, the bad, the ugly of the Supercourses:
The good:
1. All the slideshows list the authors so you can
check up on them.
2. Many of the slideshows are on epi and research
methods, and are easy to find.
The bad:
3. Many pages on the Pitt supercourse brings up some
pop up and pop under ad.
Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/
has some slideshows about evaluation and social research
http://www.slideshare.net/jtneill/slideshows
James Neill has 22 slideshows about research, survey research, social
psychology
http://www.slideshare.net/colinquinton/slideshows
Colin Quinton has 2 slideshows: Survey Research Methods, and
Interview, Ethnography and Action Research
Measurement and evaluation http://www.slideshare.net/Brett509/measurement-evaluation
Program evaluation http://www.slideshare.net/missan/programme-evaluation-in-open-and-distance-learning
On line surveys http://www.slideshare.net/guestfc78ad/survey-research-02
Market research http://www.slideshare.net/kkjjkevin03/marketing-research
Quantitative data basic analysis http://www.slideshare.net/DrKevinMorrell/quantitative-data-a-basic-introduction
Make surveys, send results to google.docs http://www.slideshare.net/sukhi/conduct-research-and-surveys-online-design-send-and-get-results-directly-in-spreadsheet-using-google-docs
Rick Davies lists evaluation slideshows from slideshare
here http://mande.co.uk/2008/uncategorized/slideshare-presentations-on-monitoring-and-evaluation/
and I first learned about slideshare from his posting on the MandE
email list http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MandENEWS/
However, the good, the bad, the ugly of slideshare:
The good:
1. Many of the slideshows are very nice looking.
2. No pop ups.
3. There are tons of slideshows on all sorts of
topics.
The bad:
4. Many of the slideshows have no information about
the authors.
5. Again, there are tons of slideshows on all sorts
of
topics. The problem is its hard to find stuff related to research
methods.
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