Caitlin Carroll Oppenheimer is a Vice President in the Public Health Research department. She directs several projects evaluating the process and impact of federal initiatives. She has expertise in evaluation research including qualitative data collection, establishment surveys, and evaluation of program data. She is experienced at collecting data via interviews, focus groups and site visits, as well as using existing administrative data to contribute to evaluation findings.
Oppenheimer has 19 years of experience conducting research and providing support to federal and non-federal clients. She currently leads several evaluations of community-based programs, including the ASIST2010 program for the Office on Women's Health, an assessment of community coalitions after federal funding has ended for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and an evaluation of the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health project for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the past five years, Oppenheimer has led a research team providing support to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion to develop and prepare for Healthy People 2020. This effort has included moderating regional stakeholder meetings across the country, developing web-based data collection strategies and providing analytic and logistical support to a federal advisory committee making recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Oppenheimer has managed several multiyear, multimillion dollar resource projects provding support to a variety of HHS offices.
Prior to joining NORC, Oppenheimer was a senior associate at The Lewin Group and an analyst at Partnership for Prevention. She is an established health services researcher with several peer-reviewed publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Emergency Nursing, and Annals of Family Medicine.