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Roy Cameron, PhD, Stephen Manske, EdD, K. Stephen Brown, PhD, Mari Alice Jolin, Donna Murnaghan, MN and Chris Lovato, PhD

Roy Cameron, Stephen Manske, and Chris Lovato are with the Centre for Behavioral Research and Program Evaluation, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. Chris Lovato is also with the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. K. Stephen Brown is with the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and the Population Health Research Group, University of Waterloo, Waterloo. Mari Alice Jolin is with the Population Health Research Group, University of Waterloo, Waterloo. Donna Murnaghan is with the Prince Ed-ward Island Health Research Institute and the Faculty of Nursing, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Roy Cameron, PhD, Centre for Behavioral Research and Program Evaluation, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 (e-mail: cameron{at}healthy.uwaterloo.ca).

The Canadian Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute of Canada have charged their Centre for Behavioral Research and Program Evaluation with contributing to the development of the country’s systemic capacity to link research, policy, and practice related to population-level interventions. Local data collection and feedback systems are integral to this capacity. Canada’s School Health Action Planning and Evaluation System (SHAPES) allows data to be collected from all of a school’s students, and these data are used to produce computer-generated school "health profiles."

SHAPES is being used for intervention planning, evaluation, surveillance, and research across Canada. Strong demand and multipartner investment suggest that SHAPES is adding value in all of these domains. Such systems can contribute substantially to evidence-informed public health practice, public engagement, participatory action research, and relevant, timely population intervention research.

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