Evaluation Time: A Practical Guide for Evaluation

About Beverly F. Triana-TremainGail V. Barrington

Gail Vallance Barrington is a Credentialed Evaluator (CE) and a certified teacher. During her 35 years as owner and manager of an independent consulting company she completed over 130 evaluation studies mainly in education health and research. She has authored articles book chapters and the popular book Consulting Start-up and Management: A Guide for Evaluators and Applied Researchers (SAGE 2012). She has served on the boards of both the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). Awards include the CES Contribution to Evaluation in Canada Award (2008) and the AEA Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice (2016). She is a Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society (2018) and the Certified Management Consultants of Canada (2014). She holds degrees from McGill University (BA) Carleton University (MA) and the University of Alberta (PhD in Educational Administration). She teaches research and evaluation skills online for Michigan State University and the University of Alberta. For more information see www.barringtonresearchgrp.com. Beverly Triana-Tremain has at least 35 years of public health teaching and consulting experience. Her areas of expertise are public health evaluation and quality improvement. Currently she serves as Epidemiologist with the University of Oklahoma. As part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) she supports the preventionist workforce in changing community risk factors for substance misuse and mental health disorders. She received her Bachelor of Science at Texas A & M University Commerce a Master of Science at Texas Womans University in Exercise Science with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Community Health Studies also at Texas Womans University. She holds a certification in Lean Six Sigma as a Green Belt and is a fellow in the National Public Health Leadership Institute. In 2006 she established Public Health Consulting LLC to assist agencies in improving the public health system For more information see www.publichealthconsulting.net.