“Evaluation Designs for Quality Improvement Practice and Research” Location: Weston House Lecture Theatre Great Ormond Street Date: Monday April 20th , 2015 Our plans for the workshop on “Evaluation Designs for Quality Improvement Practice and Research” are moving ahead well. We have an exciting line up of speakers and panelists and a diverse group of implementers and researchers who have already signed up for the meeting. The meeting will be a satellite event of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, a meeting co-sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and British Medical Journal, that will be held in London from April 21st to 24th . The timing of HSG Working Group event will also allow for attendance at the Research and Science Symposium that will be held at the Forum on April 21st. While this highly interactive meeting will focus on designs and practical challenges for evaluation in resource limited settings, the lessons are applicable to all environments. The meeting attendance is free of charge and will be limited to 100 people who have pre-registered. Please email directly to Mark Bradshaw at IHI if you are planning to attend. The detailed agenda and speakers will be published in early March. Moderator: Pierre Barker (US) Agenda: 8.00 – 8.20 – registration 8.20 – 8.30 – introductions and settling in 8.30 – 8.45 – Designing evaluation to understand context - Gareth Parry –Institute for Healthcare Improvement, USA 8.45 – 9.00 – Evaluation options for complex systems – Betty Kirkwood – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 9.00 – 9.15 – Clarifications 9.15 – 9.30 – Case Report - Kogie Naidoo – CAPRISA, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 9.30 – 10.20 – Question #1: What are the key questions for a QI evaluation study to answer? Panel Discussion/Group Discussion/Report Out 10.20 – 10.40 – break 10.40 – 11.20 – Question #2: What evaluation design is best suited for the answers to question 1? Panel Discussion/Group Discussion/Report out 11.20 – 12.00 – Question #3 What data do we want to collect and how can we collect it? Panel Discussion/Group Discussion/Report out 12.00 – 12.30 – Synthesis and take-aways (rapporteur)