Evaluating positive youth development: The need for, and advancement of, the positive youth development sustainability scale
What the conflict assessment system tool (CAST) can show us about fragility: Libya case study
Three recommendations to improve the measurement of Sustainable Development Goal 16
Reaching rural U.S. populations at risk for diabetes: Three areas for further study
Year in review: R&E Search for Evidence 2022
Social marketing and health literacy innovation: Using a partner approach in diabetes prevention
Stakeholder mapping to drive global guidelines implementation: Reflections from the 2022 Hand Hygiene Think Tank
How local knowledge can improve the effectiveness of development policies
Challenge & Opportunity: How to increase uptake of open science practices in education research
Slow and steady, it’s not a race: Building the evidence base for digital self-care
As we refocus our efforts on tackling HIV, what can we learn from resilience in the face of COVID-19?
How often are local authors the lead on health research conducted in low- and middle-income countries?
Turned Away: The role of providers in denying family planning to women in Malawi
Developing a framework for measuring menstrual changes
Transferring evidence between contexts: Highlights from CEDIL annual conference
How we define health outcomes impacts our research: The case of COVID-19 among smokers
Effective supply chain management approach for essential drugs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The power of belonging in developing positive math identity
Participant Engagement Activities: A tool for promoting ownership and understanding among participants in clinical trials
Using ethnography to understand how complex system dynamics influence individual health provider behaviors
Five-year retrospective: Our founding editors recount the growing pains and the humor of building a research blog
Year in review: Read our top blog posts of 2021
Keeping our ears and minds open: Monitoring and evaluation for a virtual training
How the other half banks: Exclusion, exploitation and the threat to democracy – A book review
Conducting clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic
Can a test-and-prevent approach link people at risk of HIV to prevention services?
Behavior change using social norms: Does the popular opinion leader intervention work in LMICs?
Reimagining how social-behavioral research can be integrated into contraceptive R&D
Our most popular research blog posts of 2020
School-based physical activity and diet interventions can be effective for addressing obesity in children in LMICs: Evidence from systematic reviews
Disability screening tools and when to use them: Lessons learned under the Equity Initiative
What evidence is there for interventions to address the dual burden of malnutrition? A rapid review
New evidence for improving handwashing access and behavior during COVID-19 and beyond
The challenges for the triple nexus approach to humanitarian assistance: A case study analysis
Research utilization is the connective tissue between evidence and action
Operationalizing ‘what works’ for education in emergencies research: 5 factors that facilitate ethical randomized designs
Did you get the message? My favorite behavior change studies can inform the COVID-19 response
Book review: Peace through Entrepreneurship by Steven Koltai
Why we need to act now to integrate gender in health development research
What’s mode got to do with it? Comparing in-person and online qualitative data collection
Can you see me now? My experiences testing different modes of qualitative data collection
Year in review: What are the most popular blog posts of 2019?
Public health vs. social science: Do publication lags matter?
Public health vs. social science research: How does authorship differ?
Achieving the SDGs requires governments and businesses to think alike: A book review of Marga Hoek’s The Trillion Dollar Shift
Next steps in strengthening education in emergencies data
Looking ahead: Assessing the accuracy of Education Policy and Data Center projections
Why understanding adolescents’ perceptions of gender inequitable norms is important for development programming
Highlights from the GCIS 2019 conference and thoughts on the future of implementation science
Let’s bring back theory to theory of change
Hey Jude: A book review of The Business of Changing the World by Raj Kumar
New country landing page visualizations offer users dynamic ways to engage with education data
What’s in a cell? How to read an evidence map with a digital identity example
Research Roundtable video: Best practices for engaging research participants
Research Roundtable video: Text messaging for reproductive health
That’s great, but what does it cost?
Book review: Lean Impact by Ann Mei Chang (and thoughts on science and the scientific method)
Looking back at the most popular posts and prolific authors in 2018
What do we know about the costs of natural disasters and disease outbreaks?
Sneaky in a good way: The use of survey and assessment metadata in soft skills measurement
6 steps for measuring equitable education access in crisis and conflict settings
How to conduct a replication study: What not to do
How to conduct a replication study: Which tests not witch hunts
The calculations are in: Digitizing salaries can save governments millions
We should be able to evaluate interventions for the disabled
Midline research reveals promising results for mLabour health application
New directions in portfolio reviews
3 women leading the charge in ICT4D research
Quarterly recap of FHI 360’s blog on research and evaluation, January–March 2018
The science of humanitarian response in crisis settings
Gearing up to enhance college readiness for underserved students: Insights from a capacity building workshop
Using a structured approach to maximize return on clinical trial research investments
Strengthening capacity to track, store and use data effectively at Catholic and independent schools
Implementation research: The unambiguous cornerstone of implementation science
Investigating STEM and the importance of girls’ math identity
5 features of a monitoring, evaluation and learning system geared towards equity in education
To achieve equity in education, we need the right data
Faster, cheaper and safer: Do UAVs live up to the hype?
Moving from indicators of facility coverage and use toward capability to reduce maternal mortality
Quarterly recap of FHI 360’s blog on research and evaluation, October–December 2017
My tribute to Peter Lamptey’s lifelong contributions to global health
5 lessons for using youth video diaries for monitoring and evaluation
Five things you can do today to participate in open scholarship
Seizing an opportunity to collect user experience data
Hypothetically speaking… If we build it, will they come?
FHI 360’s R&E Search for Evidence quarterly highlights
Paper-based data collection: Moving backwards or expanding the arsenal?
Four tips for turning big data into big practice
Book Review: Rigor Mortis – Harris says the rigor in science is dead
Mobile-based surveys: Can you hear me now?
Don’t spin the bottle, please: Challenges in the implementation of probability sampling designs in the field, Part II
Sample size is not king: Challenges in the implementation of probability sampling designs in the field, Part I
Big data and data analytics: I do not think it means what you think it means
Turning lemons into lemonade, and then drinking it: Rigorous evaluation under challenging conditions
Improving the evaluation of quality improvement
Applying the power of partnership to evaluation of a long-acting contraceptive
Research on integrated development: These are a few of my favorite things
Riddle me this: How many interviews (or focus groups) are enough?
Why should practitioners publish their research in journals?
7 takeaways from changes in US education grant programs
Evaluation ethics: Getting it right
A pathway for sampling success
Gearing up to address attrition: Cohort designs with longitudinal data
