Staff Bio
Goldie MacDonald, PhD, serves as the Associate Director for Evaluation in the Public Health Infrastructure Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Role at ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø
Dr. MacDonald works closely with internal and external collaborators to advance program evaluation design, implementation, and use across the center and agency. She led similar functions in ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø’s former Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services.
Previous experience
Dr. MacDonald provides leadership and trusted counsel on evaluation of key programs nationwide and internal to ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø. Recently, for example, she led or co-led evaluation of electronic case reporting (eCR) in jurisdictions supported by ; formative evaluation of employee perspectives and priorities regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the former ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Center for Science Epidemiology and Laboratory Science; process evaluation of the ; capabilities-based evaluation to support the Public Health Data Modernization Initiative (DMI); equity-focused evaluation of eCR in Florida; and real-time evaluation of employee experiences and needs as ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø established the Public Health Infrastructure Center.
She is an active member of the , the official source for program evaluation standards in North America. Since coming to ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø in 1999, Dr. MacDonald co-led multisite evaluations of pandemic influenza preparedness in 40 countries, in 10 countries, program in 42 communities nationwide; and Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response across Ethiopia. For more than a decade, she taught evaluation theory and practice at regional events in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Dr. MacDonald is lead author of . The American Evaluation Association recognized this work with the Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Government. Dr. MacDonald is a regular contributor to and authored three peer-reviewed evaluation checklists released by at Western Michigan University.