Nirvana Petlick Email & Phone Number

New Brunswick, NJ

• Provide research support and coordination for health policy projects that focus on health service delivery, population health, health insurance coverage, chronic disease management, and obesity prevention.
• Facilitate conferences and meetings on health policy topics.
• Cultivate strong relationships with colleagues, partners, external funders, and other stakeholders.
• Document and analyze information collected during interviews with consumers, health care providers, hospitals, and employers.
• Manage survey development, data collection, data coding, and quality control activities.
• Contribute to the development of memos, issue briefs and presentations intended for policy audiences.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Provided technical assistance to state officials and grantees for a national systems change initiative funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to increase access to home and community-based services.
• Conducted needs assessments with grantees and assisted in the development of customized technical assistance plans.
• Developed written materials to accelerate systems change results.
• Planned and implemented national and regional trainings in response to identified needs of grantees.
• Prepared grant proposals and budget narratives with technical assistance team.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Acted as a liaison between researchers and interviewers for a nursing home transition evaluation study.
• Contacted state officials to obtain information and resources on adult day health programs.
• Drafted and edited reports summarizing regulations that were submitted to state departments for verification.
• Developed and maintained Access databases containing complex client data and summaries of state programs.
• Assisted with coordination of a statewide conference on caregiving.
• Moderated focus groups dealing with child care health and safety issues.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Administered Youth Tobacco Survey to students at randomly selected schools to provide population-based estimates of the prevalence of tobacco use among middle and high school students.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Coordinated research study of the impact of psychosocial factors in breast cancer screening.
• Responsible for interfacing between researchers and study sites.
• Monitored study accrual, supervised data collection, and managed study data.

Education record

Graduate courses in health economics, health insurance, and health systems

Ba, Economics