In July and August of 2010, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) convened four meetings on the state of the knowledge regarding the evaluation of large scale multi-level, multi-site prevention interventions.
The following were the titles for each meeting:
- Perspectives from Researchers – July 23, 2010
- Perspectives from Large-Scale Evaluators – July 29, 2010*
- Perspectives from Cross-State Evaluators – August 2, 2010
- Perspectives from Program Officials with Large Data Bases – August 6, 2010
*For the purpose of these four meetings, Researchers was defined as one who was funded to conduct a controlled trial (e.g., RCT or strong quasi-experimental design) of a theory-based prevention intervention or operating system, whereas an Evaluator was defined as one who has conducted evaluations of Federal or State funded prevention intervention programs or systems.