Our team
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
| Bill Beery
Senior Investigator |
206-287-4390
beery.b@ghc.org |
| Emily
Bourcier
Manager, Operations and Development |
206-287-2035
bourcier.e@ghc.org |
| Carol Cahill
Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-4602 cahill.c@ghc.org |
| Elizabeth Carson-Cheng Research Associate/ Senior Program Manager |
206-287-2633 carsoncheng.e@ghc.org |
| Michelle Chapdelaine
Research Support Specialist |
206-287-2016 chapdelaine.m@ghc.org |
| Diana Charbonneau
Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-2932 charbonneau.d@ghc.org |
| Allen
Cheadle
Director |
206-287-4391
cheadle.a@ghc.org |
| DeAnn Cromp Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-2732 cromp.d@ghc.org |
| Howard Greenwald Evaluation Consultant | 206-287-4394
greenwald.h@ghc.org |
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Sylvia Hoffmeyer Research Specialist |
206-287-2399 hoffmeyer.s@ghc.org |
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Clarissa Hsu
Manager, Research Services |
206-287-4276
hsu.c@ghc.org |
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Maggie Jones
Manager, Evaluation Services |
206-287-4604
jones.margaret@ghc.org |
| Elena Kuo Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-2951 kuo.e@ghc.org |
| Ian Maki Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-4678 maki.i@ghc.org |
| Juno Matthys Research Specialist |
206-287-4389 matthys.j@ghc.org |
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Heidi Merrifield
Financial Analyst |
206-287-4691
merrifield.h@ghc.org |
| Afsaneh Rahimian Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-2488 rahimian.a@ghc.org |
| Lisa Schafer Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-4378 schafer.l@ghc.org |
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Jennie Schoeppe Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-2200
schoeppe.j@ghc.org |
| Craig Sewald Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-2535 sewald.c@ghc.org |
| Diep Tran Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-442-5249 tran.dn@ghc.org |
California
| Ama Atiedu Evaluation Consultant | 310-663-7539 akpene.atiedu@pepperdine.edu |
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Suzanne Rauzon Evaluation Consultant |
510-325-4128 srauzon@berkeley.edu |
| Rebecca Spring Evaluation Consultant | 510-967-8403 rdspring@earthlink.net |
Kentucky
| Bill Pfeifle Evaluation Consultant |
859-333-0543 pfeifle@uky.edu |
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Lisa Tobe Evaluation Consultant |
530-318-4887 lisatobe.consulting@gmail.com |
Ama Atiedu, MS
Ama is working as the local evaluator for Kaiser Permanente Southern California Community Benefit's HEAL Zone and Healthy School Partnership Initiatives. She holds a Master of Science from Iowa State University (2005) and will complete a master's degree in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University in the fall of 2012. Ama’s previous evaluation experience includes working for the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) as a Research Associate and for Los Angeles Universal Preschool as a Research and Evaluation Specialist. At CDPH, she conducted formative evaluation studies for the California 5 a Day (now known as the Champions for Change), a statewide social marketing campaign aimed at promoting fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity for the prevention of chronic diseases. Ama believes the components of organizational development, research, and evaluation each play a pivotal role in the evaluation process and her current professional interests include merging the three components into one unified and cooperative field.
Bill Beery, MPH
Bill is a senior investigator and was the founding director of CCHE until April 2011. From 1997 to 2007, he was also 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. He has also worked in health programming and evaluation in Africa and Asia. Bill is an affiliate professor, University of Washington 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.
Emily Bourcier, MPH, MHA
Emily is a research associate and senior program manager trained in social and behavioral sciences. She currently works on evaluations for Kaiser Permanente's Community Benefit strategy, including the national cross-site Community Health Initiative. She also coordinated the evaluation for Seattle-King County's Steps to a Healthier US Initiative. Emily’s work at CCHE 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. Emily also serves as operations and development manager for CCHE. She holds a BA in biological sciences from Smith College, and an MPH and MHA from the University of Washington.
Carol Cahill, MLS
Carol is a research associate and program manager with a background in information science and community health planning. 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 currently is involved with the design and implementation of a web-based tool to link primary care providers with community resources for physical activity and chronic disease management. She has participated in numerous CCHE evaluation projects, including development of resources for the Association for Community Health Improvement’s community health assessment toolkit and evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Impact Project. Carol received her MLS from the University of Washington in 1977 and earned a certificate in geographic information systems, also from UW, in 2008.
Elizabeth Carson-Cheng, MPH
Elizabeth is a research associate at CCHE. She has a background in public health and experience in community health program evaluation, project management, capacity building, and grant making. Her previous evaluation work has addressed a wide range of issues, including family planning, health care access, breastfeeding, school readiness, childcare quality, community building, and programs for English language learners. At CCHE, she is working on the Healthcare Georgia Foundation's Georgia Evaluation Resource Center. Elizabeth holds an MPH from Johns Hopkins University (1998).
Michelle Chapdelaine
Michelle is a research support specialist providing administrative support to the CCHE team and other Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) faculty. She came to GHRI in June 2012, with experience in communications, administration, and grant management at nonprofits and local government in Spokane, WA and New England. Michelle earned a BA in journalism in 2010 from St. Michael's College in Vermont.
Diana Charbonneau, MIT
Diana is a research associate at CCHE. She earned a Master's in Teaching degree at the University of Washington in 2005. She has a background in education, project management, research, and nonprofit development. At CCHE, she is working on evaluations for the King County Food and Fitness Initiative and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Impact Project. Diana has a long-standing interest in serving children and families, reflected in her previous work as a teacher and a volunteer. Prior to joining CCHE, Diana was a project manager with Group Health Research Institute where she worked on a large-scale multi-site community engagement project focused on developing research infrastructure and mentoring the next generation of translational researchers.
Allen Cheadle, PhD
Allen is director of CCHE and a senior investigator at GHRI. He has worked with CCHE for more than 15 years on a range of projects through his affiliation with GHRI as a research professor in the University of Washington School of Public Health. His interests and evaluation experience include policy and environmental approaches to obesity. For the past several years he has overseen the evaluation of Kaiser Permanente’s Community Health Initiatives in 30 communities nationwide. Allen seeks to continue and expand CCHE’s work in evaluating community initiatives, working with foundations to build the capacity of community-based organizations, and helping safety-net organizations improve the care they provide in underserved communities. He is particularly interested in advancing Group Health's ability to benefit the broader community. Allen holds a PhD in economics (University of California, Berkeley, 1988).
DeAnn Cromp, MPH
DeAnn is a research associate and program manager with CCHE. She earned her MPH in social and behavioral sciences from the University of Washington and her BA in psychology and anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous work includes contributing to the evaluations of community-based tobacco interventions among marginalized populations and substance abuse treatment programs in the Washington State prison system. At CCHE, DeAnn is part of a team evaluating Public Health-Seattle & King County's Communities Putting Prevention to Work Initiative to reduce tobacco use and obesity. She also is working on the Group Health Research Institute's medical home evaluation and the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Expectations project.
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.
Sylvia Hoffmeyer, BA
Sylvia is a research specialist for CCHE. She is supporting data collection and analysis, including organizing and conducting key informant interviews for Kaiser Permanente’s Community Health Initiative in Colorado. Sylvia has more than 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.
Clarissa Hsu, PhD
Clarissa is a medical anthropologist who holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology (University of Washington, 2000). As a research associate and member of the GHRI faculty, she specializes in qualitative methods, research design, and participatory evaluation. Clarissa’s research contributes to improving health by investigating clinical quality improvement measures, the effectiveness of community-based health improvement programs and health promotion policy, patient-centered care and healing, and complementary and alternative medicine. At Group Health, she is helping study patient and provider experiences related to the patient-centered medical home model and the shared decision-making clinical improvement initiative. As CCHE’s research services manager, Clarissa helps guide CCHE’s multisite projects, fostering a better understanding of how to improve the health of individuals and their communities through the research and evaluation of clinical, behavioral, and community/environmental interventions. She is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health and serves as a thesis advisor for master’s-level midwifery students at Bastyr University.
Maggie Jones, MPH
Maggie is a senior program manager and research associate at CCHE. She is currently managing several of CCHE's evaluation projects, including evaluations of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky’s initiatives, the development of the Healthcare Georgia Foundation’s Evaluation Resource Center, and evaluations of two safety net initiatives funded by Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit in California. Maggie’s evaluation experience has focused on evaluation capacity building and evaluating initiatives related to community health improvement, health policy, health disparities/health equity, public health preparedness, public health training programs, and clinical quality improvement. Maggie is CCHE's evaluation services manager. She holds an MPH from the University of Washington (2007).
Elena Kuo, PhD, MPH
Elena is a research associate at CCHE. She earned her MPH in 2002 and PhD in 2009 from University of Washington's Public Health Epidemiology program. She has a long-standing interest in health education and improving health outcomes for minority and marginalized populations. Previously she worked at the University of Washington's Child health Institute and at Group Health Research Institute as a project manager. She has been involved with a wide variety of projects, from implementing school-based mental health screening to designing a tuberculosis treatment education program to conducting and evaluating harm-reduction interventions for IV drug-using women, and more. Elena's primary focus at CCHE is strategy-level coordination for the multi-site Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiatives for Healthy Eating Active Living.
Ian Maki, MPH
Ian is a research associate working on several projects with CCHE. He earned his MPH from the University of Washington's social behavioral science program in 2006. Prior to joining CCHE, Ian developed, managed, and evaluated service-learning programs at the University of Washington School of Medicine, serving as the educator/evaluator for the Community Health Advancement Program (CHAP) and as program manager for an interdisciplinary health science service learning program called Student Providers Aspiring to Rural Experiences (SPARX). Ian also has worked with community-based health organizations and provided technical assistance on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's AIDS Prevention Marketing Initiative as an account executive for Porter/Novelli, bringing his rich 12-year history of public health experience in health education, health promotion, and issues related to rural health access, and rural primary care workforce development. At CCHE, Ian will work on the evaluation of Kentucky Healthy Futures Initiative, which is part of the national Social Innovation Fund.
Juno Matthys, BS
Juno is a research specialist who joined the CCHE team in December 2009. Her previous experience included supporting academic and administrative departments at the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At CCHE she has implemented logistics for Photovoice at over 15 Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiatives sites. Currently she is supporting the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Impact Project and Kaiser Permanente Southern California HEAL Zones, in addition to several other CCHE projects. Her interests include health policy, exercise physiology, and nutrition science. Juno earned a BS in health ecology from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Heidi Merrifield
Heidi has responsibility and oversight for post-award financial management, including administration of active projects, budget management and financial reporting through closeout of project. She has more than 15 years' experience working in health care and educational settings. Her interests include using information technology applications to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial and project-related systems at CCHE.
Afsaneh Rahimian, PhD
Afsaneh is a research associate who is working with the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky’s five-year initiative to promote health across the state. She also is a member of a team evaluating Public Health Seattle & King County’s Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative. Afsaneh comes to CCHE with over 15 years of evaluation experience with community-based organizations that serve culturally diverse populations. She earned her PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the University Southern California (USC), an MS in biometry (also from USC), and an MA in Sociology from California State University.
William Pfeifle, EdD, MBA
Bill 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 career 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 public domain. Bill joins the CCHE team as a locally based evaluator for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky initiatives.
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 nationwide 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 Center for Weight and Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
Lisa Schafer, MPH
Lisa is a research associate and program manager with CCHE. She received her MPH in community-oriented public health practice from the University of Washington in 2009. Lisa’s experience with community-based research and evaluation includes coordinating data collection and analysis for a process evaluation of a malaria prevention intervention in rural Ghana and supporting evaluation activities for a project targeting metabolic syndrome among Latino communities in Idaho. Prior to that, she worked as a clinical assistant in a natural health clinic. At CCHE, Lisa coordinates the evaluations of the California HealthCare Foundation/Kaiser Permanente Specialty Care Initiative and Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky initiatives.
Jennie Schoeppe, MPH, MS
Jennie is a research associate with CCHE. She earned her MPH in community-oriented public health practice from the University of Washington in 2010. She also holds an MS in physical therapy from Washington University and a BS from the University of Oregon. Prior to joining CCHE, Jennie coordinated a project that evaluated the implementation of a new Washington state law supporting intervention in drug overdoses and worked with a community-based health clinic to assess its diabetes education program. She also brings 12 years experience as a physical therapist to her work. At CCHE, Jennie is part of a team evaluating a new physician leadership model at Group Health and works on an evaluation of an intervention to decrease vaccine hesitancy among parents in Washington state.
Craig Sewald, BA
Craig is a research associate with a background in public policy planning and evaluation. He has a special interest in food policy and has worked with Seattle Tilth and the Washington Farm-to-School program. Craig joined CCHE in October 2011 and is working on a community needs assessment for Group Health’s community benefit program and on evaluation of the California HealthCare Foundation/Kaiser Permanente Specialty Care Initiative. He received his BA in Social Science from the University of Washington in 2008 and will receive his MPA from UW’s Evans School of Public Affairs in early 2012.
Rebecca Spring, MPH
Rebecca is participating in Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit evaluations in California. 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.
Lisa Tobe, MPH
Lisa has been working on social justice and health issues since she served as a VISTA volunteer in the Appalachian Mountains 20 years ago. As the Director of the Center for Health Equity, she helped reshape the public health landscape by serving as a catalyst for collaboration between public health, communities, and organizations; increasing organizational and community capacity; and shaping policy that focused on decreasing health inequities. Lisa has worked for the Kentucky Commission on Women, served as a Health Education Consultant to the California Department of Health Services and worked as Program Chief, Director of Health Education for the Plumas County Public Health Agency. She earned her MPH at the University of North Carolina. Lisa joins the CCHE team as a locally based evaluator for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky initiatives.
Diep Tran, MPH, MA
Diep is a research associate at CCHE. She is currently working on evaluating ALL HEART/PHASE, a Kaiser Permanente initiative aimed at helping diabetes patients prevent cardiovascular disease. She holds a MA in public health from University of California, Los Angeles, with an emphasis on chronic disease and maternal child health, and a MA from the University of California, Irvine, in demographics and social analysis. Her previous professional life included more than seven years of program and fund development for grass-roots nonprofits in Southern California, where she worked closely with diverse community partners to increase access to health care for underserved populations.