Positive public health outcomes can only be achieved if effective programs are sustained over time. However, sustainability is an ongoing challenge for public health programs, and for practitioners and researchers alike. This challenge is compounded by the fact that many things affect sustainability, including financial and political climates, factors in the organizational setting, and elements of project design and implementation.
The National Cancer Institute’s May Research to Reality (R2R) cyber-seminarwill explore public health sustainability -- the challenges and facilitators, frameworks and tools for practitioners and researchers, and examples of sustainable programs from two communities. Dr. Mary Ann Scheirer will provide an overview of sustainability and a framework for public health programs and research. Dr. Doug Luke will then share a new sustainability assessment tool. The Program Sustainability Assessment Tool provides public health programs and their partners with a reliable way to measure their capacity for sustainability. Finally, Drs. Susan Tortolero and Alice Ammerman will close the session as panel discussants to share examples of how the available tools and sustainability models can be applied to public health programs, including the successes and challenges their own Prevention Research Center programs have faced.
Join us for this exciting and relevant topic with some of the key leaders in this field.
This cyber seminar was planned in collaboration with the National Prevention Research Centers (PRC) Evaluation Committee.
A PDF copy of the slides from this presentation can be requested at the end of the cyber-seminar by emailing ResearchtoReality@mail.nih.gov or through the Contact Us link located at the bottom of this site.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the cyber-seminar, participants will be able to:
- understand a framework for sustainability of public health programs.
- Discuss a recently developed sustainability tool for researchers and practitioners.
- Identify the key challenges and facilitators to sustainability and some examples of successful sustainable programs in the community.
Presenters
Professor,
Institute of Public Health
George Warren Brown School of Social Work,
Washington University in St Loius
Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Professor, Department of Nutrition,
Schools of Public Health and Medicine
University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill
Director, University of Texas Prevention Research Center
Director, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR)
Associate Professor, Behavioral Science and Health Promotion, and Epidemiology,
University of Texas School of Public Health
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Discuss this Cyber Seminar
Mary Ann posted on May 10, 2012
I don't think that there are likely to be unique factors related to sustainability only, as a further stage in these longer term processes. As far as I know, there is little research on this question, but I suspect that many of the same factors are related to all of these stages, but perhaps with differential importance to different stages, and in different contexts/environments.
Jim Dearing and I have talked about writing a follow-up paper to our AJPH paper on methods for research about sustainability, that would assess and compare factors related to adoption of new programs, implementation, and then sustainability. But we have not had time to do that! It is also likely that the factors influencing sustainability are differentially related to different types of programs and their contexts.