John D Fluke Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Kempe Center, Dept. Of Pediatrics, University Of Colorado School Of Medicine

At the Kempe Center Dr. Fluke pursues ongoing research in the area of child welfare decision making, administrative data analysis, and the implementation and scale up of evidence supported interventions. He will also pursue the development child maltreatment epidemiology including applications to international monitoring and evaluation activities. He holds a senior position as a research faculty member, and as a member of the executive team for the Kempe Center. His portfolio includes responsibility for the systems level service delivery research related to child maltreatment including a focus on public health, child welfare, and children’s mental health systems. Responsibilities include helping to set overall strategic directions for the center, research and evaluation design, research management analytic consultation, and oversight of other research and evaluation performed by the center. The position is also responsible for specific supervision of grants and contracts as well as research and evaluation staff. The work scope includes research and evaluations related to publically funded services systems and community-based program evaluation for state social service agencies across the country, for the Federal Government, as well as work in other countries.

Kempe Center, Dept. Of Pediatrics, University Of Colorado School Of Medicine

Dr Fluke rejoined American Humane as the center’s founder and director. Established with private funding, the purpose of the research center is to address long-standing issues related to the improvement of public child protective services. Research focuses on fundamental issues in child protective services and the development of evidence-based policy and practices to effectively address them. Among others, the initial areas of focus is to include assessment and decision-making processes in child welfare cases, examination of the system’s racial disproportionality, improved ways to scale up the implementation of evidence-based intervention and treatment practices at agencies and community service providers, and the further development of a global network of child abuse and neglect data-collection systems and professionals.

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Ph.D., Organizational Decision Science

Ma, Anthropology

Ba, Mathematical Anthropology