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The Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) has a national
reputation for assisting nonprofit organizations, foundations, and health
departments in program planning, setting targets for success, assessment and
evaluation design, data analysis, and sharing lessons learned. We invite you
to contact any of our team members below.
Seattle
California
Kentucky
Bill
Beery, MPH
Bill is the director of CCHE. From 1997
to 2007, he was the vice president of programs
for the Group Health Community Foundation,
overseeing the Foundation's extensive
evaluation activities. He holds an MPH
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1974). Previously, he directed Disease
Prevention and Community Services, and The
Center for Health Promotion at Group Health
Cooperative. He has also worked in health
programming and evaluation in Africa and Asia.
Bill is a professor (affiliate), University of
Washington (UW) School of Public Health and
Community Medicine. He has held academic
appointments at Duke University Medical Center
and the University of North Carolina School of
Public Health. His evaluation and research
interests are community-based health promotion
and prevention programs for
low-income/high-risk populations.
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Emily Bourcier, MPH, MHA
Emily is a senior program manager trained in social and behavioral sciences. She currently works on evaluations for Kaiser Permanente’s Community Benefit strategy, including the Community Health Initiative and Safety Net Initiative. She also coordinates the evaluation for Seattle-King County’s Steps to a Healthier US Initiative. During her six years with CCHE her work has included an evaluation for the Northwest Health Foundation to assess the legacy of its first decade of community grant-making, an evaluation of Hope Lodges for the American Cancer Society National Home Office, a proof of concept evaluation about incentives and the built environment, an assessment of hospitality workers’ attitudes and working conditions to help the statewide hospitality union gain a better understanding of its membership, and community needs assessments with Northwest Tribes. She holds a BA in Biological Sciences from Smith College, and an MPH and MHA from the University of Washington.
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Carol
Cahill, MLS
Carol is a program manager with a background
in information science and community health
planning, with a special interest in community health assessment. She joined CCHE in 2005, having
received a fellowship from the Sewell Learning
Partnership to focus on strategic planning for
Group Health's community benefit program.
Carol is coordinating implementation of the
Children's Access Fund, a $1 million
donation from Group Health to improve access
to care for children outside of King County,
and participated in evaluation of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living Research
Program. Carol received her MLS from the
University of Washington in 1977, and earned a certificate in Geographic Information Systems, also from UW, in 2008.
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David Cammon, BA, PMP
David is an administrative assistant who
joined the CCHE team in 2007. His previous
work has been in the fields of banking and
information technology project management and
delivery. David earned his bachelors degree in
history from Seattle University and Project
Management Professional certification from the
Project Management Institute. David's key
responsibilities include supporting the
business needs of the group and implementing
new efficiency opportunities.
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Allen Cheadle, PhD
Allen is a research professor, University of
Washington Department of Health Services and
Community Medicine. He holds a PhD in
Economics (University of California-Berkeley,
1988). His recent work has focused on methods
of evaluating community-based health-promotion
programs. He has led design and analysis
components of all of the Foundation's
evaluation projects. Allen is working to move
community-based evaluation methods away from
the use of randomized controlled trials in the
direction of qualitative case study
techniques. He also works with multiple local
communities to improve collaboration between
UW and community-based organizations.
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Howard P. Greenwald, PhD
Howard is a professor of Management and Policy
at the University of Southern California
School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
He is also a clinical professor at the
University of Washington School of Public
Health. He holds a PhD in Sociology
(University of California-Berkeley, 1975) with
specialties in opinion research,
organizational behavior, and the modern labor
force. Howard recently completed projects on
minority recruitment and retention in the
health professions. He is currently directing
a project on health insurance among employed
California Latinos, and an investigation of
racial profiling in vehicle stops. He has
published on interventions to control violence
and to reduce isolation among inner-city
elders. His book, Who Survives Cancer?,
reports results of a 10-year study on cancer.
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Lisa
Hager, MHA
Lisa is a program manager who earned her MHA
in Health Services Administration with an
emphasis in public health (University of
Washington, 1996). Previously, she worked with
the Seattle-King County Department of Public
Health where she directed HIV/AIDS education
evaluation projects. Lisa also worked for 10
years in predoctoral and graduate medical
education program designing and evaluating
jointly funded programs at the University of
Washington and at Group Health Cooperative.
Her research interests include health
workforce diversity, immigrant health and
medical workers, and the health issues of
indigenous populations. Currently Lisa is
coordinating an evaluation of the legacy of
The California Wellness Foundation's
sabbatical program.
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Muriel Harris, PhD,
MPH
Muriel Harris is an assistant professor in the
School of Public Health and Information
Sciences, University of Louisville. She holds
masters and doctoral degrees in Public Health
with a concentration in Health Promotion,
Education and Behavior from the University of
South Carolina. She has been a member of
program evaluation teams and has worked as an
individual contractor on multiple evaluation
projects for several years. She currently
teaches two program evaluation courses to
master's students, both of which involve
student engagement in community based project
activities. In addition to her teaching
responsibilities she has most recently
conducted an evaluation of the Kentucky
Tuberculosis program which had as its focus,
reducing rates of TB among minority
populations. Dr. Harris joins the CCHE team as
a locally based evaluator for the Foundation
for a Healthy Kentucky initiatives.
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Sylvia Hoffmeyer, BA
Sylvia is a program manager for CCHE. She is supporting data collection and analysis and conducting key informant interviews for The California Wellness Foundation’s sabbatical program and the Partnership for the Public’s Health legacy evaluation. Sylvia has over 25 years of experience working in the field of project management and administration with community-based nonprofit organizations in education, social work, the environment, community outreach, and social change. She has a BA in Liberal Studies with a Concentration in Values and Social Change from Antioch University.
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Clarissa
Hsu, PhD
Clarissa is a medical anthropologist who holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology (University of Washington, 2000) and brings specialized training and experience in qualitative research methods. She is a senior program manager and specializes in qualitative methods, research design, and participatory evaluation. Clarissa has worked on wide variety of evaluation and research projects including the Plan/Practice Improvement Plan Evaluation, the Partnership for the Public’s Health (PPH) Initiative and an Ethnographic Study of Childbirth Education Classes. Her research has focused on the cultural, social, and political factors that shape midwifery care, childbirth, and end-of-life care.
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Maggie
Jones, MPH
Maggie is a program manager at CCHE with an
MPH in community-oriented public health
practice (University of Washington, 2007).
Maggie spent two years at the Northwest Center
for Public Health Practice working on an
assessment of cross-border public health
preparedness needs and evaluating public
health training initiatives. Prior to that,
Maggie coordinated the research program for a
small non-profit agency in Minneapolis. Her
research focused on using qualitative and
quantitative methods to support organizational
and community development around cultural
competency.
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Ron Maynard, PhD, MPH
Ron is a program manager with more than 15
years experience evaluating community based
programs in diabetes, nutrition and obesity,
pulmonary and heart disease, aging and
disability studies and children's dental
health. He also has extensive teaching
experience in community health, program
evaluation, cultural anthropology, and social
work. He comes to CCHE from the Health
Promotion Research Center, University of
Washington School of Public Health. Ron holds
a PhD in Anthropology (University of
Washington, 2003) and an MPH (1996) and MSW
(1992) from the University of Washington. At
CCHE, he is participating in evaluation
projects for Kaiser Permanente, the Foundation
for a Healthy Kentucky, the Northwest Health
Foundation, and Care Oregon.
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Heidi Merrifield
Heidi is the grants manager for CCHE. She has
responsibility and oversight for the financial
and database systems that we use to monitor
project activities. She has more than 15 years
experience working in health care and
educational settings. Her interests include
using IT applications to improve the
efficiency and effectiveness of the financial
and project-related systems at CCHE.
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Lyn
Paleo, DrPH, MPA
Lyn Paleo has over ten years of experience in
program evaluation for health and social
programs. She has worked in the areas of
nutrition and health, HIV/AIDS, homeless,
domestic violence, substance abuse, youth
services, literacy, occupational health, and
disaster preparedness. Her evaluation practice
focuses on teaching/training, evaluation for
community organizations, research on
evaluation, and policy. She has a special
interest in issues of validity in
participatory research and the use of
non-standard techniques, such as photo
documentation and interactive methodologies.
Lyn earned her DrPH from University of
California-Berkeley School of Public Health in
2000 and an MPA from Harvard in 1990. She
joins CCHE to provide assistance to local
evaluations in Kaiser Permanente Northern
California Healthy Eating/Active Living
Program.
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Dave
Pearson, PhD
Dave is the associate director of CCHE and has
worked in program evaluation for the past 25
years. He is a medical sociologist holding a
PhD in Sociology (Washington State University,
1979) and is a professor (affiliate),
University of Washington School of Public
Health and Community Medicine. Dave currently
directs field operations for all of the major
health improvement efforts. His areas of
interest include the evaluation of community
based health promotion, tobacco prevention,
and Indian health.
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William Pfeifle, EdD,
MBA
Bill Pfeifle is a professor in Health Services
Management at the University of Kentucky
College of Public Health. He earned his
doctorate in education at the University of
Kentucky (1977) and an MBA with a certificate
in medical management in 2003. Throughout his
careen he has been involved in numerous
educational and service-related projects
within the university and on state, national
and international levels. His research
interests focus on the impact of education and
leadership on individual and collective
behavior in the pubic domain. Dr. Pfeifle
joins the CCHE team as a locally based
evaluator for the Foundation for a Healthy
Kentucky initiatives.
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Suzanne Rauzon, MPH
Suzanne is a director of community health
projects and evaluation studies. She has over
15 years experience leading community-based
initiatives and developing organizational and
community change strategies. She has developed
partnerships and collaborative projects
working on a wide range of sectors and
approaches, including several school-based
interventions, a nation-wide cardiovascular
risk screening effort and work site health
initiatives. She holds an MPH (University of
California-Berkeley, 1986). She has expertise
in strategic communications, change
management and public health planning. Suzanne
also has credentials in the fields of
nutrition and exercise physiology, and is
affiliated with the University of California
at Berkeley, Center for Weight and Health.
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T. Anne Richards, MA
Anne is the local evaluation associate for the Northern California sites of Kaiser Permanente’s Community Health Initiative. From 1989 through 2003 Anne was a qualitative research specialist, project director and co-investigator at the University of California, San Francisco, working in a wide range of issues, primarily related to HIV/AIDS. From 2000 to present her concentration has been on community and institutional program evaluations examining both systems and impact. Anne has conducted qualitative based research and evaluation at local, national and international levels and has taught research methods and project planning at St. Mary’s College of California. She holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Social Science focusing on anthropology and psychology (San Francisco State University, 1993).
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Sandra
Senter, MN, MPH
Sandra Senter is a senior program manager holding master’s degrees in Pediatric Nursing (University of Florida, 1971) and Public Health Education (University of California–Berkeley, 1977). She has been with the CCHE Evaluation Team since 1997 and has coordinated numerous evaluations including the California Youth Takin’ on Tobacco Program, The California Wellness Foundation Health Improvement Initiative and Tracks in the Sand evaluations, American Cancer Society Sun Safe Communities program, the planning phase of The California Endowment Partnership for the Public’s Health Initiative, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living Research Program evaluation. She has served as evaluation consultant to the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Washington since 2003. Prior to joining CCHE, Sandra’s experience included a range of nursing practice and serving as an independent consultant to health care organizations and health-related businesses with an emphasis on program planning, evaluation, quality improvement, health education, and training.
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Rebecca Spring, MPH
Rebecca is currently working on the
development of an evaluation framework for
Kaiser Permanente's Safety Net Partnerships in
addition to evaluating Kaiser's
population-based approach to reduce
cardiovascular events. She holds an MPH with
an emphasis on Community Health Education (San
Jose State University, 2004). Prior to working
at CCHE, Rebecca directed an evaluation of
HIV/AIDS medication adherence at a community
health center in San Francisco and was
responsible for overseeing quality improvement
initiatives at a consortia of health centers
in Santa Clara County, California. Her
previous evaluation experience has focused on
HIV prevention and treatment, tobacco
prevention, obesity prevention, and food
security.
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