**Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences Resources (PHPB): About Program Development

Healthy People is the national public health and disease prevention blueprint. Healthy People 2030, the initiative’s fifth iteration, builds on knowledge gained over the first 4 decades.

Objectives are organized into intuitive topics so you can easily find the information and data you’re looking for: Health Conditions, Health Behaviors, Populations, Settings and Systems, and Social Determinants of Health.

Search a library of federal tools and resources to help you develop and conduct prevention research projects. You’ll find data instruments, research findings, clinical practice guidelines, and examples of translating research into practice through public health programs, policies, and interventions.

Designed to guide community health planning coalitions, agencies, and health departments in planning community health improvement efforts: Identify high-impact interventions; Ensure the interventions selected are evidence-based; Apply the “Twin Approach” (which couples population-wide interventions with more targeted interventions to advance health equity) in the design, selection, and implementation of interventions; Use logic models to select and develop the most effective interventions for a particular community.

A workbook to help public health program managers, administrators, and evaluators develop a joint understanding of what constitutes an evaluation plan, why it is important, and how to develop an effective evaluation plan in the context of the planning process. Part I defines and describes how to write an effective evaluation plan. Part II includes exercises, worksheets, tools, and a Resource Section.