Publications & Resources

 

Publications and Presentations:

Tohmé, A, Broyles, ST, Holston-West, D, Sasser, D. Evaluating Community Coalitions for Impacting Environmental Change. National Health Outreach Conference, Roanoke, VA, April 2016.

Gollub EA, Martin L, Harrell, M. Toward a Healthier Louisiana!...Unlikely Opportunities, Outstanding Results. 46th Southeastern Council of Foundations Annual Meeting, “Bridging the Gap”, Asheville NC, November 2015.

Broyles ST. Playgrounds, and Policy, and Partnerships! Oh, my! The Challenge for a Healthier Louisiana grant program’s attempt to reduce obesity in one of the heaviest states in the U.S. Invited seminar to the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Atlanta, GA. January 21, 2015.

Gollub EA, Kennedy BM, Bourgeois BF, Broyles ST, Katzmarzyk PT. Engaging Communities to Develop and Sustain Comprehensive Wellness Policies: Louisiana’s Schools Putting Prevention to Work. Prev Chronic Dis 2014;11:130149. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd11.130149

Gollub EA, Cockerham C. Live Lively LaSalle! – An Example from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Challenge Grant Program. 28th American Evaluation Association Annual Conference “Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future,” Denver CO, October 2014.

Gollub EA, Tohmé A, Vlosky DA, Arnold D. Common Goals, Common Ground, Common Good:
Building a Healthier Louisiana one Parish at a Time. 28th American Evaluation Association Annual Conference “Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future,” Denver CO, October 2014.

Broyles ST. Evaluation of a State-wide Multi-component, Multilevel Community Obesity Prevention Program: The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation’s Challenge for a Healthier Louisiana. Southern Obesity Summit; Nashville, TN; November 2013.

Tohmé A, Gollub E, Vlosky D, Broyles ST, Katzmarzyk PT. A Public-Private Partnership Catalyzes Multi-Level Obesity Prevention in Louisiana. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2013.

Gollub EA, Vlosky DA, Lockwood JF. Empowering a Community to Promote Healthy Living: the West End Health and Wellness Project. 27th American Evaluation Association Annual Conference “Evaluation Practice for the 21st Century,” Washington DC, October 2013.

Vlosky DA, Gollub E, Broyles S, Tohme A, Katzmarzyk P. Community Research: Evaluating 12 Diverse Project Sites. 27th American Evaluation Association Annual Conference “Evaluation Practice for the 21st Century,” Washington DC, October 2013.

Arnold DL, Gollub E, Bourgeois B. Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Tobacco Control Program: Schools Putting Prevention to Work, 1-Year Follow-Up Evaluation. 27th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association, Washington DC, October 2013.

Broyles ST. Using Evidence to Inform Public Policy: Results of Systems Models for Louisiana.  Pennington Biomedical Research Center Childhood Obesity and Public Health Conference: Childhood Obesity in Louisiana: Developing and Evidence-based Policy Agenda; Baton Rouge, LA. October 24, 2012.

Gollub EA. Training your Target to Strengthen your Evaluation. National Conference on Tobacco or Health “A New Era of Tobacco Control: Policy, Regulation, Prevention,” Kansas City, Missouri, August 2012.

Broyles ST. Louisiana’s Report Card on Physical Activity & Health for Children and Youth: Advocacy, Evaluation, and Target Setting.  School Nutrition Association of Louisiana 59th Annual Conference, Monroe, LA. June 14, 2012.

Broyles ST. Using Available Data for Advocacy and Target Setting.  New Orleans Childhood Obesity Prevention Partnership: How We Will Measure Our Success.  New Orleans, LA. October 25, 2011.  

Broyles ST. Physical Activity and Health of Louisiana’s Youth: State Report Card 2010. Pennington Biomedical Research Center Childhood Obesity and Public Health Conference: Developing an Evidence-based Childhood Obesity Strategy: The Importance of Evaluation; Baton Rouge, LA. September 29, 2010.  

 

Reports:

Challenge for a Healthier Louisiana Grant Program 2012-2015, Final Report.

Challenge for a Healthier Louisiana Grant Program 2012-2015, Technical Report.

West Carroll Healthy Communities 2014 Health Assessment, 2015.

1305 Basic Evaluation Results – an interim report on the Processes and Outcomes of Louisiana’s State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health activities, 2014-2015.

Coordinated Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Program Evaluation Report. Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, Health Promotion. June 2014.

Retrospective Evaluation of Baptist Community Ministries Investments in Policy Change to Reduce or Prevent Childhood Obesity. Funded by Baptist Communities Ministries, New Orleans, LA. June 2014.

Reducing Childhood Obesity in Louisiana – an Evidence-based Approach to Inform Policy Decisions. Funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant to the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. October 2013.

An Evaluation Report: Schools Putting Prevention to Work, a project of the ARRA 2009 Communities Putting Prevention to Work/Statewide Policy and Environmental Change Initiative. April 2012.

An Evaluation Report: Tobacco Cessation through Quitlines and Media, a project of the ARRA 2009 Communities Putting Prevention to Work/State and Territory Initiative. April 2012.

Evaluation of the Medical Monitoring Project (MMP): Effects of Design, Implementation, and Infrastructure Supports on MMP Data Use. Prepared for the Behavioral and Clinical Surveillance Branch of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia. April 2011.

Growing Up Fit Together (GUFT) – an Evaluation of a School-Based Nutrition Education Program    in the Lower Mississippi Delta. November, 2010

Well & Aware: Setting up a Low-Level Nutrition Education Initiative Addressing Diabetes in a  Rural Population. A program of The Health Enrichment Network.  2009.

 

TOOLS & WORKSHEETS

 

LINKS:

American Evaluation Association
http://www.eval.org/

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation Challenge Grant Program
http://ourhomelouisiana.org/signature-programs/challenge-grant/

Well-Ahead LA
http://www.wellaheadla.com/

Healthy People 2020
http://www.healthypeople.gov/

CDC: