Let's Evaluate It!

Student, Jessie Barton, sits down for a discussion with three staff members at the Indiana State Department of Health: Klaudi Wojciechowsha, Drug Overdose Prevention Program Director, Cassidy Johnson, Nalaxone Program Manager, and Katie Hokanson, Trauma and Injury Prevention Director. The four of them discuss the nationwide opioid epidemic, how it has affected Indiana, how the Indiana State Department of Health has responded to the crisis, and how they are evaluating their response. Klaudia, Cassidy, and Katie point out what we continue to learn through Public Health Evaluations- they're tricky. 

This was created by Ashleigh Shields, Prince Adu Gyamfi, and Anureet Sandhu and we interviewed Dr. Jonathon Day from Purdue University. This is for the Public Health Evaluation course with Dr. Laura Schwab Reese. 

Let's Evaluate It presents chronic disease with Dr. Monica Kasting and Mallili Morvans, Destinie Green, and Hannah Reygaerts. Enjoy!

This episode will focus on Global Health, specifically Nutrition. 

Today's episode is with Juanita Crider, a working professional, researcher, student, and life-long learner. Juanita is the full-time Program Advisor at the Purdue University Black Cultural Center as well as a Doctoral Candidate in American Studies at Purdue University. In today's conversation, Juanita discusses the historical events, trials and challenges, joys and triumphs, of race and health, and how this has impacted programming and evaluation. We are so excited to share this conversation with you!

If you would like to learn more about Juanita Crider, and her research, you can visit the Black Cultural Center website at: purdue.edu/bcc

Join Aubrey Adams and Dalia AboAlsafa, graduate students at Purdue University, to talk with Brandi Christiansen about Mental Health America and program evaluation. Brandi is the CEO and President of Mental Health America of the Wabash Valley Region.