Thomas Lehman Email & Phone Number

Washington DC

Serves as the Director of Research in the Social Marketing and Communication (SMC) department, a group of more than 50 staff dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through innovative social marketing and behavior change strategies to help clients implement programs and campaigns that work. SMC offers expertise in social marketing, health.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Directs and manages communication research and evaluation initiatives, including formative research, consumer testing, and program and campaign process and outcome evaluation. Technical responsibilities include quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation design, instrument development, data collection, data management, data analysis, and.

Led and collaborated on multiple communication research initiatives in the Center for Social Marketing and Behavior Change. Research areas include formative research, consumer testing, and program and campaign process and outcome evaluation. Technical responsibilities include research design, instrument development (for quantitative and qualitative data.

Served as Research Lead and Project Manager on a variety of health and education projects. Programmatic areas included nutrition, physical activity, out-of-school initiatives for youth, school-based HIV/AIDS prevention and health education, influenza and pneumonia vaccinations, healthy aging, and transportation-related topics.

Provided technical and operational assistance on multiple in-depth school-based HIV/AIDS prevention evaluation studies. Collaborated on instrument development and construction, including tailoring existing items, creating new items, scale development, and formatting surveys for ease of use and interpretation. Monitored data collection and provided guidance.

Conducted and wrote literature reviews on various subjects relevant to school-based HIV/AIDS program evaluations. Produced data tables, charts, and illustrations for technical reports, presentation materials, and scholarly articles. Managed project files and retrieval systems.

Provided research assistance to a project sponsored investigating the career paths of women leaders in foreign affairs. Contributed to the identification of survey participants, and design of a comprehensive, quantitative self-report leadership survey distributed to over 1,500 senior and mid-level professional women in a broad segment of foreign affairs.

Responsible for presenting the Introductory Psychology research requirements to 1500 undergraduate students. Worked with the Chair of the Human Subjects IRB and served as the liaison between university researchers and student participants. Managed the student research participation database. Managed the computerized mass administration of personality.

Taught multiple sections of an upper-level undergraduate social psychology experimental design course. Responsibilities included lecturing on topics such as developing research ideas, conducting and interpreting statistical analyses, and writing research reports.

Ma, Social Psychology

Ba, Psychology, Studio Art