The Planning, Evaluation & Quality Improvement Center is a dedicated center within the Emory Centers for Training and Technical Assistance.
Highlights of the PEQI Center’s capabilities and current capacity-building initiatives include:
Evaluation
- Create and implement evaluation plans
- Apply utilization-focused evaluation so results are used to support continuous quality improvement and demonstrate results of resource investments
- Develop clear reports and dissemination strategies to make findings accessible and actionable

Developmental Evaluation & Design Thinking
- Apply a creative problem-solving approach (systems thinking) to program development that encourages innovation
- Support informed decision-making as part of the design, development, and implementation of public health strategies
Strategic Action Planning
- Use the Know-Plan-Go framework to facilitate collaborative planning processes
- Assess and analyze current and desired state
- Support operations for inclusive planning to create stakeholder buy-in
- Create a practical, realistic roadmap for the program’s future
- Engage stakeholders in supporting plan implementation
>> Learn more about our Know - Plan - Go planning process
Quality & Process Improvement
- Assess the implementation, operations, and delivery of a service or program
- Use quality improvement (QI) techniques help create a maximum value by reducing waste and inefficiencies
Consultation & Technical Assistance
- Provide phone, web, or in-person consultation
- Provide input on evaluation design, methods, and analysis to streamline evaluation efforts, maximize rigor, and overcome challenges
- Advise on planning processes to ensure stakeholder buy-in
>> Learn more about our approach to technical assistance.
Training Workshops & Webinars
Deliver in-person and online training to build capacity in evaluation design and methods, design thinking, planning processes, quality improvement, and informatics
>> Learn more about the unique forms of support we offer to help your health initiative shine.
Sample Services
- Evaluation scoping and evaluation plan development
- Revision and adaptation of evaluation plans
- Indicator and metric development
- Needs assessments, formative evaluations, and summative evaluations
- Strategic planning
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Business process analysis
- Usability studies for information systems
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- Data collection
- Survey design, questionnaire development
- Interviews, observations, focus groups
- Data visualization, reporting and recommendations
- Redesign of charts and visualizations
- Report writing and results presentation development
- Generating recommendations and after-action/improvement plans
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