Formerly the director of the Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE), Allen Cheadle, PhD, now serves as a CCHE senior research associate and KPWHRI senior investigator.
Dr. Cheadle's efforts with CCHE during the last several years have involved measuring and enhancing the impact of Kaiser Permanente's community health initiatives. He led the evaluation of the Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiative from 2004 to 2017, which promoted the use of policy and environmental strategies to reduce obesity in 30 communities nationwide. CCHE tracked strategy-level progress and impact, measured changes in community-level health indicators, and provided formative feedback to the communities and to Kaiser Permanente.
Since stepping down as director of CCHE, Dr. Cheadle remains on its leadership team and seeks to continue the Center's work in evaluating community initiatives, working with foundations to build the capacity of community-based organizations, and helping safety-net organizations improve the care they provide.
Dr. Cheadle's work with other KPWHRI investigators is focused on collaborative research and evaluation projects, particularly those that can improve the Kaiser Permanente Washington delivery system and contribute to its development as a "learning health system" where research influences practice and practice influences research. These projects are also aimed at advancing Kaiser Permanente Washington's ability to benefit the broader community.
Before becoming CCHE director in 2011, Dr. Cheadle worked with the Center for more than 15 years on a range of projects through his affiliation with KPWHRI as a research professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he is now an affiliate professor of health services.
Creating approaches to assessing community health – broadly defined to include the social determinants of health and health equity
Developing methods and measures to assess the impact of complex community-based systems and policy change efforts
Ponce-Gonzalez IM, Perez K, Cheadle AD, Jade M, Iverson B, Parchman ML. A multicomponent health education campaign led by community health workers to increase influenza vaccination among migrants and refugees. J Prim Care Community Health. 2021 Jan-Dec;12:21501327211055627. doi: 10.1177/21501327211055627. PubMed
Ponce-Gonzalez IM, Cheadle AD, Parchman ML. Correlation of oral health education by community health workers with changes in oral health practices in migrant populations in Washington state. J Prim Care Community Health. 2021 Jan-Dec;12:21501327211002417. doi: 10.1177/21501327211002417. PubMed
Ponce-Gonzalez I, Rodriguez CM, Cheadle A, Torrance S, Parchman M. Counting the unsung by promoting participation in the 2020 US census: a survey of migrant workers in Washington state. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2021;32(1):156-164. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2021.0015. PubMed
Stiefel MC, Straszewski T, Taylor JC, Huang C, An J, Wilson-Anumudu FJ, Cheadle A. Using the county health rankings framework to create national percentile scores for health outcomes and health factors. Perm J. 2020 Dec;25:1. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.012. PubMed
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