IAGR2025 session:
What works and why – assessing safer gambling outcomes to advance evidence-based decision-making
As gambling products and markets continue to evolve, so too must our approaches to understanding what actually reduces harm. But without clear evaluation, how do we know if safer gambling initiatives are working?
This session explores how outcomes-based evaluation can strengthen harm reduction efforts by identifying what works, for whom, and under what conditions. Panellists will introduce core principles of outcomes measurement, its integration with gambling harm assessments, and practical methodologies used across jurisdictions.
Through case studies and applied examples, participants will gain insights into how evaluation can inform policy, improve practice, and support shared progress toward safer gambling goals.
About Megan:
As Chief Experience Officer (CXO), Megan oversees Greo’s Evaluation and Knowledge Mobilization teams, providing support to include lived and living experience, practice-based evidence, and research evidence into Greo’s products and services.
With a passion for capacity building, Megan has over 20 years of experience working with community-based, provincial/territorial and federal-level organizations to collectively identify needs and collaboratively develop plans of action to listen, learn, and grow.
Megan holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Waterloo and a Diploma of Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University.
