Evaluation Staff

John Uzzell, Director

We play an integral role in carrying out the FDA's mission. Assessing various aspects of Agency program performance provides opportunities to identify means of improving that performance. The evaluation function we perform has three goals: 1) provide information and analyses that helps Agency officials, the Department, and members of Congress make decisions related to programs, policies, budgets, and strategic planning; 2) help FDA managers improve program operations and performance; and 3) disseminate evaluation results and methodological tools useful to FDA program managers and, in some cases, to the larger public health community.

Our evaluation activities serve one or more of the following purposes:

• Performs program and policy evaluations and analytical studies of broad Agency issues. Recommends alternative courses of action to increase effectiveness of agency allocation of resources and to improve program and project performance.
• Monitors program evaluation activities in Agency components and collaborates with Health and Human Services (HHS) in the development of the annual HHS evaluation plan.
• Applies quantitative and qualitative techniques to assess systems, processes, and operations to help Agency officials discover optimal courses of action.
• Collaborates with Agency components to design, develop and complete FDA User Fee performance reports for Congress.

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