Uplifting Contextual & Experiential Evidence—Strategies to Strengthen Evidence-Based Decision Making

Building off of the CDC's Framework for Thinking about Evidence, UCEE seeks to elevate and integrate contextual (i.e., measurable factors in a community) and experiential (i.e., the collective experience and expertise of community residents and practitioners, or lived experience) evidence alongside best available research evidence (i.e., peer-reviews, published scientific literature) for evidence-informed decision-making. Participants had an opportunity to engage with and provide feedback on a set of proposed principles and strategies to integrate these forms of evidence into decision-making for funding, strategies, policies, programs, and long-term planning.