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INCLUSIVE DATA, CREDIBLE INSIGHTS
This series explores how to build trustworthy evidence by improving the ways data are identified, collected, analyzed, and protected with an emphasis on inclusion and real-world usability. It highlights practical approaches to strengthen data quality, reduce bias, and improve how teams critically analyze, interpret, and communicate findings for decisions that affect diverse communities

THE DATA-DRIVEN ADVANTAGE
This series focuses on turning information into actionable intelligence that helps organizations navigate change, seize opportunity, and make confident, evidence-based decisions. Topics connect data to strategy and performance—showing how to move from measurement to insight to impact in day-to-day management and planning

LOCAL LENS: PLACE-BASED TRENDS
This series examines why local context matters for interpreting trends and designing solutions. Using a place-based lens, it spotlights community-level patterns, what’s driving them, and how organizations can partner across sectors to respond with targeted, evidence-informed action.

Improving Assessment of EHR Data Quality By Explicitly Accounting For Underlying Biases

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become a cornerstone of modern health research and evaluation. Their promise lies in the vast, real-time, and longitudinal data they provide that can be used to improve care, track outcomes, and inform policy. But as the use of EHR data for research grows, so does the need for rigorous data quality assessment.

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Why Needs Assessment Is Essential for Building Credible, Actionable Evidence

Needs assessment is a foundational component of effective evidence building. It provides a structured, data‑driven process for identifying priority problems, understanding gaps between current and desired conditions, and informing the selection of evidence‑based strategies. When conducted rigorously and collaboratively, needs assessment strengthens the relevance, credibility, and usability of evidence throughout the policy and program lifecycle. Rather than serving as a compl

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Why Local Context Matters: Using A Place‑Based Lens

Seeing Patterns Is Not the Same as Understanding Them National and state‑level trends are often the starting point for identifying challenges such as food insecurity, health disparities, or unequal access to services. But trends alone rarely explain why conditions look the way they do or what solutions will work in a specific place. A place‑based lens shifts the focus from abstract averages to community‑level patterns, examining how local history, infrastructure, policies, a

Local Lens: Place-Based Trends

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Using Data-Related Icebreakers To Support Participatory Evaluation

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Needs Assessment of Evidence Building-Decision Support Tool

This tool helps you to focuses evidence on the right questions,improve data relevance and credibility, build stakeholder trust and buy‑in, and supports continuous improvement.

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Why Local Context Matters: Using A Place‑Based Lens

Seeing Patterns Is Not the Same as Understanding Them National and state‑level trends are often the starting point for identifying challenges such as food insecurity, health disparities, or unequal access to services. But trends alone rarely explain why conditions look the way they do or what solutions will work in a specific place. A place‑based lens shifts the focus from abstract averages to community‑level patterns, examining how local history, infrastructure, policies, a

Why Needs Assessment Is Essential for Building Credible, Actionable Evidence

Needs assessment is a foundational component of effective evidence building. It provides a structured, data‑driven process for identifying priority problems, understanding gaps between current and desired conditions, and informing the selection of evidence‑based strategies. When conducted rigorously and collaboratively, needs assessment strengthens the relevance, credibility, and usability of evidence throughout the policy and program lifecycle. Rather than serving as a compl

Building Trustworthy Evidence Starts With How We Handle Data

In an era where data increasingly drive funding decisions, program design, and policy priorities, the credibility of evidence matters as much as its availability. Yet too often, conversations about “better data” focus narrowly on technical sophistication, the newest tools, faster analytics, or advanced algorithms while overlooking a more fundamental question: Do the data meaningfully reflect people’s lived realities, and can they be used responsibly and effectively in the rea

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Improving Assessment of EHR Data Quality By Explicitly Accounting For Underlying Biases

Why Needs Assessment Is Essential for Building Credible, Actionable Evidence

Why Local Context Matters: Using A Place‑Based Lens

Resource Guides and Tips

Using Data-Related Icebreakers To Support Participatory Evaluation

Needs Assessment of Evidence Building-Decision Support Tool

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Why Local Context Matters: Using A Place‑Based Lens

Why Needs Assessment Is Essential for Building Credible, Actionable Evidence

Building Trustworthy Evidence Starts With How We Handle Data

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Improving Assessment of EHR Data Quality By Explicitly Accounting For Underlying Biases

Why Needs Assessment Is Essential for Building Credible, Actionable Evidence

Why Local Context Matters: Using A Place‑Based Lens

Resource Guides and Tips

Using Data-Related Icebreakers To Support Participatory Evaluation

Needs Assessment of Evidence Building-Decision Support Tool

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Why Local Context Matters: Using A Place‑Based Lens

Why Needs Assessment Is Essential for Building Credible, Actionable Evidence

Building Trustworthy Evidence Starts With How We Handle Data

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