PUB-5009: Public Program Evaluation

Allen, P., Jacob, R. R., Parks, R. G., Mazzucca, S., Hu, H., Robinson, M., Dobbins, M., Dekker, D., Padek, M., & Brownson, R. C. (2020). Perspectives on program mis-implementation among U.S. local public health departments. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 258.
This literature review discusses the impact of evidence-based decision-making on public health programs.

Copestake, J. (2014). Credible impact evaluation in complex contexts: Confirmatory and exploratory approaches. Evaluation (London, England, 1995), 20(4), 412–427.
This source discusses the impact of evidence-based decision-making on public health programs.

Granger, R. C., & Maynard, R. (2015). Unlocking the potential of the “what works” approach to policymaking and practice: Improving impact evaluations. American Journal of Evaluation, 36(4), 558–569.
The article suggests ways to make impact evaluations more valuable by understanding treatment contrasts.

Henry, G. T., Smith, A. A., Kershaw, D. C., & Zulli, R. A. (2013). Formative evaluation: Estimating preliminary outcomes and testing rival explanations. American Journal of Evaluation, 34(4), 465–485.
This paper discusses the challenges of appropriately estimating program outcomes in light of alternative factors.

Oblea, P. N., Berry-Caban, C. S., Dumayas, J. Y., Adams, A. R., & Beltran, T. A. (2019). Evaluation of clinical nurse transition program at US Army hospitals. Military Medicine, 184(11–12), 914–921.
This academic paper describes a quantitative evaluation of a medical transition program to prepare nursing staff to enter practice.

Perez JL, Yerena A. Evaluating the Policy–Practice Gap in a Transitional Housing Program: An Innovation in Process Evaluation. American Journal of Evaluation. January 2016
The following article describes two ways of conducting a process evaluation: the traditional method and a simplified version using the GAPP tool.