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February 2019
 
 
Producing Effective Infographics, ESS, and a call for volunteers
  • The Art & Science of Producing Effective Infographics
  • April Essential Skills Series
  • Call for volunteers: Graduate students for TECCHI
 
 

The Art & Science of Producing Effective Infographics

The Art & Science of Producing Effective Infographics
Date: March 29, 2019
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (check-in: 12:30 PM)
Location: Bond Place Hotel, 65 Dundas Street East Toronto
Registration deadline: March 27, 2019
Price: CES members: $150 // Student members: $75 // New Practitioner members: $112.50
Tickets:
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Meals:  registration price includes a coffee break
Facilitators: Dr. Sid Ali

Data visualization as a hot topic in the evaluation world, especially in knowledge transfer activities. The interactive and multi-modal workshop will focus on a specific type of data visualization, namely infographics – artistic or graphic presentation of data to communicate insights. We will briefly orient infographics in the realm of data visualization, illustrating the different types of infographics. Then our focus will shift to the science of why we use infographics in communicating to our various audiences (clients and funders). We then venture into design theory, calling on the works of data visualization experts Bernard Marr, Stephanie Evergreen, Garr Reynolds and Edward Tufte. The bulk of the time will be aimed at specific design elements of graphics, colour, and font, which provide the visual cues to our most important element: the data. We will then put these elements together with examples, and then look at resources and tools for infographic production. The session will conclude with a short question period.

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April Essential Skills Series 

April 2019 Essential Skills Series
Date: April 15-18, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (check-in: 8:30 PM)
Location: Ryerson University, 63 Gould Street, Toronto
Registration deadline: April 5, 2019
Price: CES members: $1150 // Student members: $675 // New Practitioner members: $862.50
Tickets:
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Meals:  registration price includes a coffee break
Facilitators: Dr. Paul Favaro
 
 

Call for volunteers: Graduate Students for TECCHI

CES Ontario has received the following request for graduate students enrolled in Public Health, Public Policy, or other Social Science programs:

As part of our growing partnerships with institutes in India, we are looking for a few graduate students for volunteer positions to work on multiple projects on maternal health, nutrition, women’s empowerment, and health systems strengthening. Travel to India is not required; there will be occasional teleconference meetings scheduled with research partners in India.

About the Evaluation Centre:
The Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions (TECCHI), established in 2010, contributes to an enhanced learning and accountability culture for improving health outcomes in Ontario and globally. The growing focus on learning and accountability in Canada and internationally has resulted in an increasing need for evaluation approaches to understand if policies and programs work, how they work and what can be done in planning and implementation to make them work. We work with policy-makers, planners and implementers to integrate evaluation approaches and evaluative thinking to more comprehensively understand the impacts of policy and programmatic interventions. Responding to the complexity of interventions requires a range of evaluation approaches and a mix of methods. We implement a range of evaluation approaches including realist, developmental and impact evaluations.

About this volunteer opportunity:
These volunteer positions are open to individuals who are in Graduate Programs in Public Health, Public Policy, or other Social Sciences. For each of these positions, key prerequisites include: an understanding of health systems, experience in conducting literature reviews, and experience with evaluation. This opportunity may especially appeal to graduate students interested in Global Health. There would be great potential for this opportunity to be used for a thesis or dissertation that focusses on problems and solutions of real significance in nutrition, maternal health, women’s empowerment and health systems strengthening.

Maternal health: This project would require statistical analysis of data on maternal and child health in India. For this position we are looking for an individual with experience conducting statistical analysis using one of the major programs (SAS, Stata, SPSS, or R).

Nutrition: This project will explore a systems and multi-component approach to building capacities in Indian villages to improve nutritional practices and behaviours. Experience in conducting research or evaluation in nutrition, particularly in developing countries, would be preferred.

Health systems strengthening: This project will seek to build a theory-informed measurement system to assess the progress of interventions focused on strengthening health systems. Experience with the literature on health systems strengthening and theory-driven evaluation would be preferred.

Women’s empowerment: This project will conduct a realist synthesis on a well-defined intervention that seeks to build empowerment among women in disadvantaged communities in India, and also will seek to explore the multiple definitions of empowerment and the multiple pathways by which empowerment can be enhanced. Experience in projects focused on gender equity and theory-driven evaluation would be preferred.

If you are interested in any of these projects or have any questions, please contact Claudeth White at whitec@smh.ca by February 15th, 2019. Attach a recent CV, letter of interest, and an academic writing sample.