Before planning any health promotion or disease prevention program, stakeholders should carefully design a surveillance/monitoring and evaluation plan. Otherwise, how will you know if your program efforts are being implemented as intended or achieving the outcomes you desire?

We collaborated with CDC Fellows and the American Heart Association to contribute to “Surveillance and Evaluation Data Resources for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Programs,” which includes a variety of new topic-specific resources, including geographic information systems (GIS) surveillance tools, performance measures for hypertension, and updated tools essential to planning, implementation, and evaluation in heart disease prevention and control. The guide also uniquely includes an updated (2016) media tools table for tracking and reporting relevant media promotion metrics relevant to communication efforts.

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