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Science Applied to the Greatest Needs
Though it's tough to pinpoint specific causes of success or failure in widespread interventions, all of these programs incorporated some degree of outcome evaluation, or implementation science. That doesn't mean that rigorous evaluation is common among global public health programs, warns Ruth Levine, co-chair of the Center for Global Development's Evaluation Gap Working Group. "Those really are exceptions to the rule," says Levine, a health economist and author of Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved, a book that highlights the success of the following programs (Jones and Bartlett, 2007). "All of them were nimble in terms of being responsive when new information that suggested a change in strategy was needed."
Intervention: In 1985, The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) launched a program to extend polio immunization ...
