Adena C.

Background

About Adena C.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: Masters-level public health researcher with 20+ years’ experience coordinating research projects, conducting program evaluations, and specializing in qualitative research. Thirteen additional years’ experience in the health education field educating youth and adults, developing and conducting training programs, and creating curricula. KEY SKILLS: • Qualitative research: develop instruments, conduct interviews and focus groups, perform qualitative coding and data analysis, develop themes, write research results • Research project coordination: manage day-to-day operations of research studies, including staff training and hiring, data analysis, interfacing with IRB, paper writing. • Writing: clear, concise writer, able to convey complex ideas simply • Software: MS Office, Atlas.Ti, NVivo NARRATIVE: For the first 13 years of my career, I worked in the field of health education, teaching sex ed to kids, training family planning counselors, coordinating a city-wide family planning training program, and creating curricula and on-line health content for new media. After receiving my MPH in I shifted my focus to public health research. For the past 20 years I have worked on several research projects, including: a qualitative evaluation of The School Health Index, designed to help schools improve nutrition and physical activity in students; a quantitative study testing a novel telephone-based approach to improving hypertension in low-income African American adults; and a 3-phase project on improving end-of-life care for children who die in the pediatric ICU. At Harvard Catalyst/Harvard Medical School, I worked on a wide variety of population health issues from childhood obesity to Hepatitis C. Most recently, I managed a research project entitled "Aligning Family-Team Expectations During Surgical Consent" within the Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice at Boston Children's Hospital.