A guiding principle of the Systematic Screening and Assessment (SSA) method is the use of explicit criteria to judge the potential of promising practices. The Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention undertook an SSA to identify promising practices to reduce high blood pressure. Published work on the SSA method contains a suggested list of criteria. For this project we adapted and added criteria, for example the health effect size on an individual person and the projected health effect size on the U.S. population. The presenters explain how the SSA criteria were tailored and operationalized to reflect stakeholder values to determine which nominated programs were most promising for this investigation. Particular attention is given to highlighting the adaptability of the SSA method as a useful evaluation approach. #HealthEvaluation #2011Conference