IIHR Contracted with Marin County Public Health department to run a four-part series of Data Academy, aimed at increasing the data literacy inside the Public Health Department. The four part series included: Foundations of Public Health Literacy, Accessing & Using Secondary Data, Framing Local Datasets, and Program Management and Evaluation. These lessons were developed and presented to an audience of government employees to strengthen the data literacy throughout the department. Examples were based on direct feedback from the client and integrated into practical applications.
“The work that IIHR did for us was so important and informative” — LeeAnn Prebil, Epidemiology Program Manager for the County of Marin Department of Health and Human Services
Additional workshop topics include:
- Survey research design, and working with quantitative data collection
- Simplifying data analysis
- Presentation and dissemination, using internal data to create feedback loops to clients and potential funders
- Recruitment tools to increase response rates
- Field research methods
- Program management and evaluation
- Data visualization
- Grant writing
- Logic models
- Outcome and framework models
- Capacity building with data
- Health communication