Monitoring and Evaluation of CDC’s One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization Process Open Access
Martin, Krystalyn (Spring 2020)
Abstract
Background: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines One Health as an approach that “is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach — working at the local, regional, national, and global levels — with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment” [1]. CDC has been conducted One Health Zoonotic Prioritization workshops in 26 countries thus far to assist multisector leaders with determining where to focus efforts to improve their country’s One Health approach. As there is growing global attention to One Health, it is important to establish methods for how to monitor and evaluate programs using a multisectoral, One Health approach. However, the CDC One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization (OHZDP) workshops do not currently include a formalized monitoring and evaluation plan to assess their impact in countries.
Methods and Results: The development of the CDC Prioritization workshop monitoring and evaluation plan involved several steps. First, a logic model was developed to visually represent the process of the OHZDP workshop and the intended theory of change. Second, a bank of indicators was developed for workshop participants to use when measuring progress and outcomes of the workshop. Finally, a pre- and post-workshop assessment was developed to assess knowledge gained by workshop participants. The impact of OHZDP workshops will be assessed in terms of a triangulation of these mixed methods data sources.
Discussion: The goal was not to link OHZDP workshop activities and the causality of outcomes, but rather to demonstrate how this workshop contributes to changes in One Health approaches to controlling zoonotic diseases. With this evaluation plan, participants and facilitators will be able to quantitatively and qualitatively assess the impact of the OHZDP Process and workshop, beyond the ad hoc evaluation data that had been collected in the past. This evaluation plan should be pilot tested, and then refined to be used in other countries or regions, or to be scaled for use in addressing other One Health Issues.
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Acknowledgments................................................................................................................................... 1 Abstract...................................................................................................................................................... 2
Introduction and Rationale ................................................................................................................. 3
Literature Review ................................................................................................................................... 9
Methodology and Results ...................................................................................................................22 Discussion................................................................................................................................................41
Appendices ..............................................................................................................................................50
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