Be one of the first to try out CAPTURE and give us feedback! Post a summary of your interventions and help create a repository of Canadian chronic disease prevention programs and resources! Please contact: Dayna Albert Manager of Practitioner Engagement The CAPTURE Project dayna.albert@thecaptureproject.ca
What is CAPTURE?
The CAPTURE Project will revolutionize how chronic disease prevention practitioners and program managers learn from what they do.
We are building a web-based evaluation platform to help them understand what works in their community and under what context. More info »
Report on the second IAB meeting
On November 1st and 2nd, 2010, CAPTURE held its second International Advisory Board (IAB) meeting in Toronto, Ontario. The meeting was attended by 11 of the 15 member advisory board. The objectives of the meeting were to update the IAB on CAPTURE’s progress, obtain feedback on the first set of platform features, and obtain advice … Read the full post »
Creating a System to Support Reflection and Learning
By: Dayna Albert and Marla Steinberg What we did In the spring of 2010, CAPTURE posed the following questions to 32 chronic disease prevention practitioners and managers in Ontario who were participating in CAPTURE focus groups: What are the challenges and barriers to sharing ‘lessons learned’ about health promotion programming? What would make it easier … Read the full post »
Demand is high for real-world evidence
Learnings from the CAPTURE National Evaluation Needs Assessment By: Dayna Albert and Marla Steinberg What we did In the spring and summer of 2010 over 200 health promotion and chronic disease prevention practitioners, managers and evaluators responded to an on-line survey on evaluation and evidence needs. What we learned Respondents were asked to rate the … Read the full post »
The Slippery Slope of Best Practices in Public Health
I just got back from a great meeting with my friends at the Canadian Best Practices Initiative (CBPI) at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). PHAC is in the process of transforming its Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CCDPC) and this meeting was an opportunity to see how the CBPI fit within … Read the full post »
Co-op Student joins CAPTURE as Communications Officer
The CAPTURE project is pleased to welcome Ryan Lledo as our Communications Officer during his eight month co-operative education term. Ryan will provide informational and promotional support, as well as assistance to the development team with testing and implementing communication tools needed for the CAPTURE Platform. Ryan is a co-op student from the University of … Read the full post »
CAPTURE and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Partnering to Learn about the Evaluation Needs of Northern and Remote Communities
The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer has received funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada to engage organizations working on chronic disease prevention in Canada’s Northern and Remote Regions through the Partnership’s Coalitions Linking Action and Science for Prevention (CLASP) initiative. The purpose of this engagement is to understand their evaluation needs and develop a … Read the full post »
CAPTURE Project gains deeper understanding of evaluation needs
What we did The CAPTURE Project, the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact and the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control at the Public Health Agency of Canada held a Knowledge Exchange Forum in Ottawa on March 29 – 30, 2010. The Forum addressed how to advance the documentation, sharing and use of evaluation … Read the full post »
Important sources of evidence not easy to access
Learnings from the CAPTURE National Evaluation Needs Assessment By: Dayna Albert and Marla Steinberg What we did In the spring and summer of 2010, CAPTURE received over 200 responses to an on-line survey targeting health promotion and chronic disease prevention practitioners, evaluators, and managers from across Canada about their evidence and evaluation needs. What we … Read the full post »
CAPTURE hires practitioner engagement manager
The CAPTURE Project is pleased to announce that Dayna Albert has recently joined us as Manager, Practitioner Engagement. Dayna comes to CAPTURE from the Ontario Public Health Association where she was instrumental in developing the Towards Evidence-Informed Practice (TEIP) program. Dayna will continue to work on a part-time basis for TEIP and will also work … Read the full post »
