aprilnakaima@gmail.com

April Nakaima is a research officer with The Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions at the University of Toronto (formerly at St. Michael's Hospital). Most recently she has co-led the evaluations of four poverty reduction initiatives in Ontario, and developed the evaluation framework and instruments for one initiative in Nova Scotia, Canada. Formerly, April worked in evaluation at the University of Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland; as a knowledge broker and evaluation coordinator at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada; and as a research associate at York University in Canada where she developed several health promotion interventions in community settings. April has co-authored numerous papers including 'Till Time (and Poor Planning) Do Us Part: Programs as Dynamic Systems—Incorporating Planning of Sustainability into Theories of Change (2019) in the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, Ten Steps to Making Evaluations Matter (2010) in Evaluation and Program Planning, and co-edited Building Capacities to Evaluate Health Inequities: Some Lessons Learned from Evaluation Experiments in China, India and Chile (2017) in New Directions for Evaluation.