Impact Evaluation Core
Established in 2019, UT MD Anderson's Impact Evaluation Core aims to assess the impact of initiatives operating on the premise that the key purpose of health program evaluation is to improve prevention, research, public health and clinical practice.
Created and led by the Office of Community Health, the Impact Evaluation Core comprises transdisciplinary expertise across a range of capabilities relevant to evaluation and cancer prevention and control, research and clinical practice, dissemination, implementation and public health practice.
The Impact Evaluation Core aims to:
- Conduct high-quality evaluation
- Create public health intelligence to inform priorities and actions in focused geographies and with priority populations
- Conduct and support comprehensive evaluation planning, design, dissemination and implementation for internal and external collaborators
- Assess the catchment area through tools like Cancer InFocus
- Apply rigorous standards for all initiatives
The Impact Evaluation Core leads operations of the Joint Collaborative on Geospatial Analysis and Health (JCoGA&H).
If you need a more accessible version of the materials and information provided as PDFs, please contact us at CommunityImpact@MDAnderson.org.
Evaluation Capabilities
The Impact Evaluation Core serves as an evaluation partner for collaborators to assess the impact of initiatives. We specialize in evaluating initiatives focusing on priority populations experiencing health disparities.
Created and led by transdisciplinary experts, the Impact Evaluation Core conducts and supports comprehensive evaluation services to improve prevention, research, public health and clinical practice.
Services
The Impact Evaluation Core offers evaluation services throughout the lifecycle of initiatives. These include:
- End-to-end evaluation design, planning, implementation and dissemination
- Public health intelligence for program prioritization
- Data collection (such as interviews, surveys and focus groups)
- Analysis of primary and secondary data
- Selection of key performance indicators
- Application of best practices and novel methods for evaluation
- Strategies for dissemination and implementation
- General evaluation consultation
Cancer InFocus
Cancer InFocus is a data collection and visualization platform that helps users better understand the cancer burden in specific geographic areas. It includes data on cancer incidence and mortality, population demographics, social drivers of health and behavioral risk factors. This platform was developed by the Community Impact Office at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and is available to UT MD Anderson through a no-cost licensing agreement.
With the Cancer InFocus Texas platform, users can explore cancer outcomes across UT MD Anderson's catchment area. This includes age-adjusted incidence and mortality rates, as well as cancer-related determinants at both the state and county levels.
Core Portfolio
The Impact Evaluation Core provides a broad range of services to a diverse set of partners. The approaches to collaboration and service are specified, assembled, refined and deployed to meet the needs specific to each project.
Current or recent collaborations for evaluation have included initiatives related to:
- Health investments
- Place-based initiatives
- Clinic-based initiatives
- Vaccination programming
- Quality improvement initiatives
- Partnership assessment
- Survivorship
Our Team
Director
- Stephanie Nutt, M.A., M.P.A.
Core Team
- Carolyn Bernard, CPHIMS
- Jacqueline Dan-Jumbo, M.P.H.
- Marcita Galindez, M.P.A.
- Samantha Paredes, M.P.H.