Mission

Our mission is to conduct useful and innovative evaluations that support healthy community initiatives and generate learning around chronic disease prevention and health promotion efforts in Hawai‘i. We strive to achieve our mission through a participatory process that engages stakeholders throughout all stages of the evaluation and ensures that evaluation standards and best practices are incorporated.

The Healthy Hawai‘i Evaluation Team (HHET) is a group of professional evaluators who conduct evaluation and research to support public health initiatives aimed at reducing chronic disease and improving the health of communities in Hawai‘i. For over twenty years, the HHET has conducted a diversity of evaluation projects in collaboration with the Hawai‘i State Department of Health’s Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division and other key public health partners in the state of Hawai‘i. Housed in the Office of Public Health Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, HHET also provides training to future public health professionals on evaluation.

Evaluation Project Areas

Chronic Diseases

Evaluate programs, policies, systems and environmental changes related to chronic diseases such as asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and obesity.

Nutrition

Evaluate programs, policies, systems and environmental changes that aim to increase access to healthy foods and increase healthy eating.

Physical Activity

Evaluate programs, policies, systems and environmental changes that aim to increase opportunities for physical activity and support active living.

Tobacco

Evaluate tobacco control and prevention programs, policies, systems, and environmental changes and work towards eliminating tobacco-related disparities.