A program of the Nevada Public Health Institute
Evaluation
Local data. National evidence. Evaluation, data, and social listening — read the way dendrochronologists read rings: honestly, and all the way back.
Every ring is a record. The record doesn't flatter or exaggerate — it tells you what happened.
That is the standard we hold our evaluation work to. The Ring Station is NPHI's evidence practice: program evaluation, needs assessment, community health data, and social listening for health departments, funders, and community organizations.
Our staff and board bring decades of implementation and evaluation experience across programs funded at the local, state, federal, and international levels. And we work under one commitment printed on every report we produce: findings are returned to the communities that generated them. Not extracted, not shelved — returned, in forms communities can use.
Services
Program evaluation
Developmental, formative, and summative evaluation for public health programs — designed with your community, sized to your questions, honest about what the data can and cannot say.
Community health assessment
Needs assessments and county health dashboards that rural leaders actually use — including our long-running work convening Nevada's annual County Health Rankings release events, north and south, since 2016.
Social listening & health communication research
Understanding how communities actually talk about health — online and in person — so programs and messages meet people where they are.
The human record
Every data point belongs to someone.
Good evaluation keeps people visible.
We design measurement around decisions communities actually have to make, return findings in forms people can use, and resist the temptation to turn lived realities into numbers without context.
Why "Station"? Field stations are where science lives close to its subject — instruments on the ridge, boots in the sagebrush. It is exactly how we believe evaluation should work.