Assessment and Surveillance

Community Assessment: Conducting Windshield and Walking Surveys

This course introduces the components of windshield and walking surveys, explains the data collection and analysis process, and discusses how observational data can be used to inform subsequent phases of the community assessment.

View from windshield

Community Assessment: Conducting Focus Groups

This course introduces focus groups as a method to gain valuable community-level data and provide a practical strategy to plan for, conduct, and analyze the results of a focus group.

Woman conducting focus group

Community Assessment: Conducting Surveys

This course introduces concepts and applies knowledge and skills that are essential for planning for and conducting a survey and analyzing and disseminating survey data specifically for the purpose of community assessment.

Survey data on laptop

Community Assessment

In this 45-minute module, participants will learn more about the components of community health assessments including the types of data commonly used.

Man running in community, graphic shows interconnectedness

Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS)

Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS) is a distributed network that leverages electronic health record (EHR) data to generate timely prevalence estimates of chronic disease measures at national and local levels; this website contains trainings…

Electronic Health Record Network graphic