The Global Health, Nutrition, and Evaluations (GHN) team has a dual agenda in learning about the methodology and real-world workings of conducting monitoring & evaluation projects, with a focus on global health and nutrition.
Team Activities: For the Fall 2017-Spring 2018 academic year, the GHN team is partnering with the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) to examine their RISE for Nutrition grant portfolio work. ECF wants to understand the existing evidence base for nutrition interventions in East Africa and be able to show how their portfolio fits into that landscape. ECF’s RISE projects include work on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions such as applying simplified tools for low-literacy community health workers to screen for severe acute malnutrition, reducing maternal depression, testing text messages’ impact on household feeding practices, and engaging fathers in household nutrition programming. The IPD GHN team has produced a comprehensive literature review and report on the RISE portfolio evidence areas and is constructing accompanying visual representations of that report and the nutrition-intervention landscape of East Africa for ECF.
The GHN team has also participated in an evaluation methods course, and then led the entire IPD cohort in an introductory evaluation methods seminar and workshop, showcasing their own knowledge gained over the course of the fall semester. As a committed team of both graduate and undergraduate students, the GHN team has been able to provide skill-building, leadership, and mentorship opportunities for its members.
Team Leadership: The GHN team’s Graduate Research Fellows, Daniela Hernandez and Anna Koons, are both 3rd year dual-degree Master of Global Policy Studies students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Daniela is also getting an MA at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), and Anna is also getting an MPH from the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health (UTHSC SPH).
Team Activities: For the Fall 2017-Spring 2018 academic year, the GHN team is partnering with the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) to examine their RISE for Nutrition grant portfolio work. ECF wants to understand the existing evidence base for nutrition interventions in East Africa and be able to show how their portfolio fits into that landscape. ECF’s RISE projects include work on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions such as applying simplified tools for low-literacy community health workers to screen for severe acute malnutrition, reducing maternal depression, testing text messages’ impact on household feeding practices, and engaging fathers in household nutrition programming. The IPD GHN team has produced a comprehensive literature review and report on the RISE portfolio evidence areas and is constructing accompanying visual representations of that report and the nutrition-intervention landscape of East Africa for ECF.
The GHN team has also participated in an evaluation methods course, and then led the entire IPD cohort in an introductory evaluation methods seminar and workshop, showcasing their own knowledge gained over the course of the fall semester. As a committed team of both graduate and undergraduate students, the GHN team has been able to provide skill-building, leadership, and mentorship opportunities for its members.
Team Leadership: The GHN team’s Graduate Research Fellows, Daniela Hernandez and Anna Koons, are both 3rd year dual-degree Master of Global Policy Studies students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Daniela is also getting an MA at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), and Anna is also getting an MPH from the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health (UTHSC SPH).
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