Centering Community in Quantitative Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination

Overview:

This is a live webinar on June 17, 2025, from 12:00 pm-1:30 pm ET. Participants will use Zoom to join.

Quantitative data collection and analysis can feel less relational at times given its focus on numbers and generating aggregate statistics. Yet there are ample opportunities to re-center people and community in quantitative data collection, analysis, and dissemination. This webinar will deepen participants’ understanding of centering community when using quantitative methods. Challenges with using primary and secondary quantitative data will be explored and strategies for mitigating limitations will be provided. How to explore disparities using commonly available tools will be demonstrated.

Jen Gathings, PhD (she/her), holds a PhD in sociology with a specialization in race, class, and gender inequalities from North Carolina State University and has over a decade of experience working providing evaluation, applied research, and technical assistance to nonprofit, government, and educational institutions. As a mixed methodologist whose first love was qualitative research, nowadays Jen strives to find ways to better center people and community in all of her work. Outside of work, she is an avid lover of theater, museums, traveling, and cats.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify at least three (3) strategies that can be used to center community in primary quantitative data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
• Use secondary quantitative data despite their many limitations when centering community.
• Champion the practice of exploring and identifying differences in health outcomes when evaluating an intervention.
• Use readily accessible tools to explore health differences in quantitative data.

CERTIFICATE: The course contains two modules: a module to access the webinar and an evaluation module. After accessing the two modules, learners will earn a certificate of completion. When the certificate is available, learners will see a Certificate button on their dashboard.

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31680, Public Health Training Centers for $4,348,992. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.