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Public health training centers

The Association of Schools of Public Health lists a number of Public Health Training Centers  http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=869  some of which are listed below and some offer free classes.


PublicHealthLearning.com,  http://www.publichealthlearning.com/   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.
  As of 9/26/11, they are updating this site.


Midwest Center for Life-Long Learning in Public Health (MCLPH)   http://www.sph.umn.edu/ce/mclph/   has a few classes in statistics and epidemiology.


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://sph.bu.edu/otlt/alliance/   has one class: Evaluation in a nutshell.


North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training Web Site  http://cphp.sph.unc.edu/training/index.php   has training on evaluation, epi-info, epidemiology, statistics, gis.


South Central Public Health Partnership   http://www.southcentralpartnership.org/   has one on line class on needs assessment and evaluation.


UNC Center for Public Health Preparedness Training Web Site   http://cphp.sph.unc.edu/training/index.php   one class on evaluation, classes on epidemiology, statistics, related topics



Others

On line classes


Areol, action research and evaluation   http://www.bobdick.com.au/areol/areolind.html   or    http://www.aral.com.au/areol/areolind.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


Online Course: Foreign Assistance Performance Monitoring and Evaluation   https://communities.usaidallnet.gov/fa/node/1901   from US Foreign Assistance

MEASURE   http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/training/online-courses   "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.....


CDC   http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline/   has this Training and Continuing Education Online. However, you can't see what the classes are, unless you log on, which I haven't so I don't know whats there. This is part of CDC's Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies (AECs)   http://www.cdc.gov/AppliedEpiCompetencies/   which lists one class, Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice.



On line lectures, pdfs, slideshows

Introduction to program evaluation  http://www.cdc.gov/tb/programs/Evaluation/default.htm   webinar. Also some ppt slides.


Using Evaluation to Reduce the Burden of Asthma: a Web-based introduction to CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation   http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/program_eval/evaluation_webinar.htm   webinars and ppt slides. Getting started, engaging stakeholders, gathering data, using findings, etc



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.


DHHS Office of Population Affairs, podcasts   http://www.hhs.gov/opa/podcast/podcasts.html   includes Conducting a Sound Process Evaluation, Regression Basics and Practical Considerations for Using HLM Hierarchical Linear Modeling. The ppt's are also here   http://www.hhs.gov/opa/familylife/annualconfabstracts/2008_oapp_annual_conf_agenda.html  


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.


Couple of workshops from NTTAC  https://www.nttac.org/index.cfm?event=trainingHighlightsNGO2010_presentations   presentations from new grantee orientation
include
Evaluating Your Program: Developing Successful and Sustainable Programs. Presenter: Patricia San Antonio, Ph.D., Senior Evaluation Specialist, CSR, Incorporated
Performance Measures: Accurately, Collecting and Reporting Data. Presenters: Monica L.P. Robbers, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, CSR, Incorporated, Ursula Murdaugh, Senior Research Associate, CSR, Incorporated


Kevin Morrell   http://www.kevinmorrell.org.uk/Handouts.htm   has a bunch of slideshows about research methods


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, Evaluation and Evaluative Research in Healthcare, A primer in surveys, Survey sample size, Surveillance 
This page   http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/assist/topicsearch.htm   lists a bunch in epi
  For some reason, my browser doesn't like Pitt, so you need to copy and paste the links to your browser.

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/media/presentations/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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