Healthy and Ready to Work: Child Health Specialty Clinics

• Funded by the DHHS/HRSA/MCHB
• Targets adolescents with special healthcare needs
• Focuses on helping kids transition from pediatric to adult health care and to the working world
• Quasi-experimental design, using mixed methods

Evaluation of the Iowa Public Health Preparedness Center

• Providing training and technical assistance in terrorism/bioterrorism preparedness
• Collaboration with state and local agencies to design and deliver training
• Also serving as a co-director of the cross-center evaluation effort
• One of 19 Academic Public Heath Preparedness Centers, funded by CDC, administered through cooperative agreement with ASPH

Pfizer Health Literacy Study

• Effectiveness of easy-to-read pharmaceutical health educational materials
• Focus on Glucotrol
• Randomized, experimental design in 3 Iowa community health center pharmacies
• Health literacy, use of materials, retention of information, changes in patterns of behavior regarding treatment compliance

Annie E. Casey - Des Moines Making Connections

• Funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation
• 11 cities funded for 10 years to reconfigure systems and revive low-income urban neighborhoods: children do well when their families are strong and families do well when they live in supportive neighborhoods. Families matter, place matters, and connections count
• Local Learning Partnership - Neighborhood Learning Partnership
• Research support
• Evaluation design
• Medical Debt in the "Des Moines Making Connections" Neighborhoods (pdf)
• Scaling Survey Data to Create Results Indicators (pdf)

Linn County Project

• Development of a literature review that focuses on person-centered planning and related topics
• Evaluation of intake, assessment, and programming processes for people with mental illness or developmental disabilities
• Conducting interviews and focus groups with clients, staff, advocates, family members
• Provide assistance in reviewing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats