DEFM410 Assignment 3.docx DEFM 410 Center of Disease Control & Prevention: Building Ev

DEFM410  Assignment  3.docx  DEFM 410  Center of Disease Control & Prevention: Building Evaluation Capacity  American Military University DEFM 410: Program Appraisal   Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Building Evaluation Capacity  Over the last few decades there has been an increase in evidence based decision making for programs throughout many government agencies. Their goal has been the application of evaluations and performance management data for program improvement. The United States Government s leaders and decision makers have stressed the significance of evaluation for evidence building and decision making (Ayenew et al., 2021). The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no exception to this trend. This paper will walk through the five step policy process the CDC follows (CDC, 2015), and how it relates to course material. The CDC Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO) works on