Our Commitment to Health for All:

At CCHE, we seek to strengthen collaboration with partners and enhance the quality and impact of our evaluations through intentional, transparent, and inclusive practices. Our work focuses on improving health outcomes and understanding differences in opportunity and experience across communities. Through this approach, we aim to contribute evidence and insights that support better health and conditions in which all communities can thrive.

The Center for Community Health and Evaluation supports respectful treatment for all individuals and stands against all forms of discrimination. This commitment is core to our mission to improve the health of communities through collaborative planning, assessment, and evaluation.​​​​​​​

Since our earliest evaluations, CCHE has focused on understanding the root causes of differences in health outcomes across communities. Many of these differences reflect long-standing patterns and structures that shape people’s opportunities, access, and well-being.

The field of evaluation has historically operated within systems that can reinforce these patterns, unless approaches and assumptions are intentionally examined and revised. We recognize that serving as an evaluator gives us influence over how programs are understood, which information is prioritized, and what changes are recommended.

At CCHE, we aim to use this influence thoughtfully by asking critical questions about context in the programs we evaluate. Who sets priorities? Who defines success? What is valued and by whom? What should be measured?

To strengthen our evaluation practice and its impact on health outcomes, we push ourselves, our partners, and our funders to reflect, as individuals and organizations, on how evaluation is designed and implemented. This includes examining assumptions, roles, and decision-making throughout the evaluation process.

In addition to structured reflection, we actively develop and refine tools and methods that hold us accountable for using transparent and inclusive organizational and evaluation practices.