Our Team

Meet the CEPEG Team! CEPEG is a research and evaluation center at CU Cancer Center and the CU School of Public Health. We’re located on the CU Anschutz campus in Aurora. CEPEG works with nonprofits, government agencies, and coalitions to plan, evaluate, and improve programs that advance community health. One of our main responsibilities is to be the external evaluators for Colorado’s A35 programs. We work closely with both STEPP and CCPD and members of our team have served on the review committees for both programs. One of our strengths is that we blend public health research, evaluation, program design, analytics, and community insight to equip organizations to better understand and improve what matters most to them. We are data driven, community focused. 

Partnership is key. Our approach to evaluation emphasizes collaboration and partnership. We recognize the value of our clients’ programmatic experience and strive to work together, building on that expertise, to answer crucial questions about the effectiveness of their efforts.  We also believe that evaluation is learning. For our public health and community partners, CEPEG provides sustainable capacity building through individualized training and technical assistance. We also provide direct evaluation support, guiding an organization’s evaluation plan development and implementation, data collection strategies and tools, data analysis, reporting, and communication plans so that partners can derive meaning and value from their evaluations, and results will move programs forward.

As the evaluator for Colorado’s statewide tobacco control and chronic disease prevention programs, CEPEG provides comprehensive evaluation training and technical assistance through tailored individual consultation, group webinars, and online instruction. In partnership with CDPHE, CEPEG evaluates innovative programs, policy initiatives, and communication campaigns to help inform program strategy and funding, and advance promising practices in both tobacco control and chronic disease prevention.

CEPEG is also the evaluator for the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center (ODDACE), for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention programs, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and housed at CU Boulder. 

CEPEG provides expertise in survey sampling design and analysis to the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative, which is designated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to conduct an annual survey of the region’s sheltered and unsheltered homeless population.

Other clients have included the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; Colorado Department of Human Services; the City of Boulder, Colorado; other Colorado agencies; the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line; National Jewish Health’s tobacco quit line; community organizations; local health departments; private foundations; and hospital systems.