Evaluation Advisory Group

The EAG is open to staff from PHIG recipient health departments, indirectly funded local health departments, national public health organizations, CDC, and partners. This voluntary group of public health professionals shapes how PHIG is evaluated, drawing on their expertise, perspectives, and experiences in strengthening public health infrastructure.

By participating in the EAG, you can help ensure that PHIG’s national evaluation tells a meaningful, accurate, and useful story for the field of public health. As an EAG member, you can:

• Inform evaluation priorities and approaches
• Ensure findings reflect the real experiences of PHIG recipients
• Connect with peers across the country
• Build leadership and learning opportunities

As PHIG enters its final years, EAG members will play a critical role in making sense of the evaluation findings. Member insights help ensure the evaluation reflects the full impact of the grant and informs both future investments and the broader public health field.

In the first two years of PHIG, EAG members collaborated as a cohort to identify and prioritize key evaluation areas of interest, resulting in six priority topics: workforce, indirectly funded health departments, training and technical assistance, strategic partnerships, foundational capabilities, and data modernization.

The NET is exploring each of these topics in depth via sub-evaluations. Each sub-evaluation is advised by an EAG working group of approximately 20 members.

Working group members are key contributors to their group’s sub-evaluation, providing regular input, feedback, and guidance. Membership is intentionally designed to reflect diverse and representative perspectives across the public health field. Throughout the sub-evaluation process, working group members offer their expertise and lived experience to:

• Guide evaluation planning
• Provide input on data collection instruments and methods
• Interpret findings
• Shape how findings are used and shared

As of March 2026, four sub-evaluations are underway, and two additional sub-evaluations are slated to launch in 2026. Working group members are selected at the launch of each sub-evaluation, as well as on a rolling basis.

If you’re interested in joining a working group, please fill out the EAG Working Group Interest Form. Working group members are selected at the launch of each sub-evaluation, with opportunities for additional members to join on a rolling basis.

We’re looking for working group members who:  

• Have firsthand experience with PHIG and the working group topic area
• Are comfortable sharing experiences and perspectives from their organization and/or community
• Can attend monthly virtual meetings

Can dedicate approximately 1–3 hours per month to working group activities, ideally for the duration of the project (through November 2027)

The NET anticipates opportunities to contribute to the EAG on an ad hoc basis. For example, we may ask for volunteers to review specific evaluation deliverables. If you are interested in ad-hoc opportunities, please fill out the EAG Working Group Interest Form.

You can also support the national evaluation by spreading the word about the EAG within your professional network, helping advance a participatory approach that strengthens large-scale public health evaluations and keeps findings meaningful to the field.

If you would like to stay up to date on the latest EAG activities and opportunities, subscribe to the EAG mailing list. Want to learn more? Email eag@nnphi.org with any questions.