• 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.• Develop low literacy health education materials for participants in a diabetes management program.• Prepare IRB submissions and monitor protocol compliance.• Participate in project development and planning activities.

• 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.

• 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. • Conducted literature reviews.

• 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.

• 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.