Hello,
I would like to volunteer as a peer reviewer.
Danita C. Crear, DrPH
Youth Suicide Prevention Program Evaluator
Alabama Department of Public Health
Injury Prevention Branch
P.O. Box 303017
Montgomery, AL 36130
Danita.Crear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(334) 206-2925 (phone)
(334) 206-0343 (fax)
“Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is
vital to all of us all of the time.”
- C. Everett Koop
From: Ryan Watkins <rwatkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: needsassessment@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Date: 02/26/2018 08:33 PM
Subject: [needs assessment listserv] Fwd: Spring Needs Assessment
TIG update: AEA Ohio 2018
Sent by: needsassessment-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
FYI
Dear AEA Needs Assessment TIG members,
Thank you for your membership in this TIG! It is time to begin planning
for the AEA 2018 Conference in Cleveland, OH.
The Needs Assessment TIG not only invites you to submit proposals for the
conference program, but to get involved in several other special
opportunities surrounding the conference.
1. 2018 Conference Proposal Submission
The 2018 Annual AEA Conference will be in Cleveland, OH, October 28 -
November 3. We are looking forward to needs assessment specific proposals
related to this year’s theme of: Speaking Truth to Power. We encourage TIG
members to submit proposals by 11:59 Pm ET, March 15th, 2018.
The number of submissions in part determines how much the Needs Assessment
TIG is represented at the conference. Be sure to select the Needs
Assessment TIG for review of your proposal as part of the submission
process.
While we always encourage submissions that incorporate the conference
theme in the context of needs assessment, it is certainly not necessary to
do so, but presentations that tie into this theme may be showcased through
the presidential strand at the conference. Since the work of our TIG
members overlaps with other important branches of evaluation we also have
the opportunity of co-sponsoring presentations with other TIGs. While you
are not limited to these topics, we particularly encourage you to submit
proposals on the following themes:
Learning to Enhance Evaluation Practices
Share evaluation practices, including theories, methods and ethics, or
lessons in diverse professional settings.
Learning What Works and Why
Share evidence of what works and why in public policies, programs, and
projects.
Learning from Others
Share innovations from other communities that have been or could be
incorporated into evaluation practice.
Learning About Evaluation Users and Uses
Share your insights on users of our evaluations, our place in policy
decision-making, and effective strategies to increase evaluation
utilization.
Speak Truth to Power
What is power? Who has it, and how can they best be influenced? What is
the power held by evaluators and evaluation?
What is truth? Whose truth? How can we best discover these truths?
And, what is speaking? Whispering? Public pronouncements? Influence?
Activism? And by whom on behalf of whom?
To submit or to get more information, go to the conference website at
http://www.eval.org/p/cm/ld/fid=602.
Note: You will have a login account to enter a proposal. If you do not
want to join AEA right now, you can very easily create a non-member
account entering just your name and email address.
2. Volunteer as a Proposal Reviewer
Please consider volunteering to serve as a peer-reviewer for our TIG. It
is one of the possible ways to be involved with the TIG. Last year, each
reviewer was assigned 4-5 abstracts (approximately 1 page each). Reviewing
is easy. You read the abstract, then rate each one according to
standardized criteria. To volunteer please either (1) reply to this email
by March 18th or (2) select our TIG as one for which you’d like to serve
as a reviewer when you submit your own proposal through the AEA website.
3. Generate Ideas for TIG Networking and Social Gatherings
We are very interested in developing conference networking and social
exchanges outside of the formal program, so we encourage you to
communicate with us if you have ideas about events or gatherings outside
the conference that would interest TIG members and bring them together.
4. Check out the AEA library
The AEA library is a great resource for work presented at previous
conferences. If you presented at Evaluation 2017, be sure you have
submitted your presentation to the library using the Participation menu
Public ELibrary.
5. Check out our TIG Website and Listserv
The information in the call for proposals can always be found on the AEA
website, which is public, so you may invite colleagues outside of AEA to
participate in the conference too.
http://comm.eval.org/needsassessment/home For practitioners, students, ;
researchers, and others who are interested in the topic of needs
assessment (including non-AEA members), we have created an email group
(listserv). You can post questions, share articles, and find experts by
posting to this mailing list. To Join, send an email to <
needsassessment-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with the subject line "Subscribe".
We are looking forward to seeing you in Cleveland, OH. !
Sincerely,
Lisle
Needs Assessment TIG leaders Contact Info:
Lisle Hites, Chair
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Email: lhites@xxxxxxx
Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, Co-Chair
Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Health Disparities
Email: hsinling.hung@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ryan Watkins, Program Chair
George Washington University
Email: rwatkins@xxxxxxx
Yi-Fang Lee, Program Co-Chair
National Taiwan Normal University
Email: ivana@xxxxxxxxxxx
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