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 communication, social media, strategic partnerships, technical assistance, creative development, communication research, and evaluation. We have industry-leading experience using social marketing for systems and community change, supporting the communication efforts of communities across the nation. Our multidisciplinary teams address a wide range of health issues and diseases—both chronic and infectious—for clients including CDC, NIH, USDA, VA, HRSA, RWJF, OSHA, and several foundations.

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 reporting. Programmatic and content areas have focused on disease prevention and health promotion, behavior change, social change, as well as policy, system, and environment change.

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 collection); data collection; data analysis; and reporting. Programmtic areas included sexual and reproductive health, occupational injury prevention, nutrition, and mental health and wellness.

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 on increasing response rates; reviewed contractor work to assure data quality. Managed project files and retrieval systems. Produced data tables, charts, and illustrations for technical reports, presentation materials, and scholarly articles. Contributed written sections to technical evaluation reports.

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 fields. Collaborated on drafting an analysis plan and conducting statistical analysis.

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 inventories and psychological questionnaires.

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