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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The CAPTURE Evaluation Needs Assessment Survey will be available in English as of Monday, June 21, 2010. Please visit our website as of this date to participate. For those of you interested in taking the survey in French, please note that it will be posted in the week of June 28, 2010. Thank you for … Read the full post »
On April 12 and 13, 2010, CAPTURE held its inaugural International Advisory Board (IAB) meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. The meeting was attended by 10 members of the 15 member advisory board. The objectives of the meeting were to familiarize the IAB with The CAPTURE Project and its progress to date; share CAPTURE’s plans for … Read the full post »
The first year of The CAPTURE Project was spent gathering information from a variety of chronic disease prevention informants including public health practitioners, evaluators, public health decision-makers, and public health and intervention researchers. Close to 500 participants were involved. A number of different consultations and information gathering activities were undertaken and are summarized in this … Read the full post »
The CAPTURE Project recently hosted a think tank entitled “How can we CAPTURE practice-based evidence?” as part of the 3rd Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation. The purpose of this think tank was to provide an overview of The CAPTURE Project and solicit feedback on one of its proposed features – reflective … Read the full post »
The Canadian Evaluation Society has accepted an abstract by The CAPTURE Project to give a presentation as part of the 2010 Annual CES Conference being held at the Fairmont Empress Hotel and Victoria Conference Centre (Victoria, BC) from May 2 to 5, 2010. Entitled “If we build it will they come? A systems approach to … Read the full post »
As part of its platform development activities, The CAPTURE Project is continuing to consult with the public heath practice community in order to ensure the platform’s features and functionality are consistent with practitioner needs. This is why on December 15, 2009, The CAPTURE Project held a consultation with a large group of public health practitioners … Read the full post »
