MAARG Advisory Services Private Limited provides comprehensive public health services that help state and local governments and other public health agencies advance and improve public health activities provided to diverse communities in the country.
MAARG provides public health planning, evaluation, infrastructure building, and research to enhance public health practice. MAARG has three primary areas of expertise: Planning, Assessment and evaluation, Analytics and informatics, and Technical Assistance and training.
Planning, Assessment & Evaluation
MAARG provides the summary findings of our assessments or evaluations and develops and disseminates evidence-based recommendations to inform future public health practice.
Example of MAARG team services:
- Planning and conducting community health evaluations and needs assessments
- Developing and conducting program evaluations (process, outcome, impact measures)
- Assessing partnership efforts to build capacity and reach mutual goals
- Developing and monitoring performance indicators
Healthcare Analytics & Informatics
Turning data into action is the key to analytical efforts, and the dissemination process is a vital component of all statistical epidemiological work. The modalities used to share results are tailored to the client, the client’s stakeholders, funding agencies, and other key parties to help inform future public health action in your community.
Example of MAARG team services:
- Collection or use of secondary data to enhance understanding of public health issues
- Expertise in data management, data transformation and mapping, and overall public health informatics
- Use of advanced quantitative analyses to understand the most important risk factors relevant to and modifiable by intervention
- Synthetization and analysis of “big data” to provide a usable meaningful dataset for analysis and reporting
Technical Assistance & Training
Example of MAARG team services:
- Training to enhance professional skills development:
- Public health principles and practice
- Public health program planning and evaluation
- Social determinants of health—health disparities, social epidemiology, health equality, health equity, and culturally competent practice
- Qualitative and quantitative analytical methods to shape program policy, practice, and planning
- Subject-specific overviews of the current state of knowledge, evidence-based summaries, and best practices
- Coalition building to develop diverse stakeholder teams
- Health communication across cultures
- Health behaviours models
- Logic models, monitoring and evaluation plans, and annual action plans
- Data collection instrument development, testing, and quality assurance and control protocol documentation
- Technical assistance to enhance community engagement, garner buy-in, and develop consortium:
- Outreach and promotion to build a comprehensive and diverse body of stakeholders from target communities that will be involved and/or participate in public health efforts
- Implementation of qualitative and quantitative analytical methods to capture community and partner perspectives—surveys, focus groups, interviews, group decision-making techniques, photovoice
