| Session Title: Building Standards for Health Policy Evaluation in an Academic Medical Setting |
| Skill-Building Workshop 490 to be held in Palos Verdes B on Thursday, Nov 3, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM |
| Sponsored by the Government Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Judy Savageau, University of Massachusetts, judith.savageau@umassmed.edu |
| Teresa Anderson, University of Massachusetts, terri.anderson@umassmed.edu |
| Abstract: Since the late 1990s, the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Center for Health Policy and Research (UMMS/CHPR) , through its Commonwealth Medicine Division, has served a unique advisory role for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Following the 2006 passage of Chapter 58, the Massachusetts Health Care Reform legislation, the government's need for health policy evaluation studies with published reports increased. Seeking to enhance an existing template, Commonwealth Medicine evaluators undertook a formal review of their reporting capacity with the twin goals of alignment with a private, national grant making foundation standard and promotion of academic publications. After participation in this workshop, attendees will be able to use the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluation Criteria with the American Evaluation Association's Guiding Principles in reviewing and writing an evaluation report. |