Evaluation Tips & Training

The tip sheets and training webinars provide evaluation guidelines and suggestions for heart disease and stroke prevention programs. But the information can benefit the evaluation process for any public health program.

Evaluation Tip Sheets

These brief tip sheets illustrate a variety of evaluation steps and events:

  • Economic Evaluation [PDF-652K]
    This tip sheet defines economic evaluation, offers types of economic analyses, and provides steps to complete an economic evaluation.
  • Evaluating Training Events [PDF-846K]
    This tip sheet is a reference of key points to keep in mind when evaluating training events.
  • Reach and Impact [PDF-898K]
    This tip sheet offers working definitions of reach and impact (recognizing that there are many possible definitions), provides examples, and presents practical tips.

Webinars and Webcasts

Learn more about evaluation tools and how to use them in these webinars and webcasts from CDC.

Five-Part Webcast on Economic Evaluation

This five-part webcast series is designed to help you understand the value of economic evaluation and how to incorporate these methods into your programs.

Coffee Break Webinar Series

CDC’s monthly Coffee Break webinar series offers 20-minute mini-trainings focused on knowledge translation tools and evaluation basics for chronic disease programs.

Find evaluation trainings on a variety of topics.