Since 1996, the Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) Data Center has been the regional public health leader in community health assessments and has extensive experience measuring community needs and evaluating population-based public health and social science programs and projects.

The Data Center has staff with formal training and expertise in:

Data Center also offers: 

• Data collection

  • Surveys and questionnaires

  • Focus groups

  • Key opinion leader surveys

  • Community forums

• Data analysis
• Identification of data sources
• GIS mapping
• Literature review and white papers
• Community needs assessments
• Presentations of data
• Program, project and grant evaluation and research
• Health impact assessments (built environment, transportation, policy)
• Prioritization processes/decision making

Data Center staff provides consultation on:

• Program planning and development
• Management of health and community-based data sets
• Human subjects policies and procedures
• Organizational performance management
• Performance measurement and systems for data-driven decision making
• Quality improvement – methods, tools, and projects

Data Center staff provides training on:

• Assessment processes
• Quality improvement methods and tools
• Performance measurement
• Communicating with data
• Logic models and program evaluation