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NORC at the University Chicago

Adrienne Call

Senior Research Scientist
Health Care Programs
Adrienne Call brings 15 years of expertise in behavioral health research, turning evidence into impact through mixed-methods research and evaluation.

As a senior research scientist, Adrienne leads implementation and evaluation projects tackling substance use, mental health, and SBIRT, using multi-modal surveys, interviews, focus groups, and site visits with patients, providers, and stakeholders. Her portfolio spans federal, state, university, and foundation initiatives, including evaluations of AHRQ’s Unhealthy Alcohol Use Initiative, SAMHSA’s Community Overdose Prevention Education grant, Illinois’ behavioral health and crisis response programs under the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, UIC’s SUPPORT Act implementation evaluation, the JED Foundation’s Suicide Prevention Campus Program, and 1115 Medicaid waivers in Kentucky, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

  

Before joining NORC, Adrienne worked with high utilizers of emergency departments, connecting patients with behavioral health needs to care and services. She also managed UCSF’s Symptom Management Service Center, a palliative care clinic supporting cancer patients.

Project Contributions

Adolescent SBIRT Initiative: Preparing the Health Professional Workforce

Preparing health professionals to screen and intervene for youth substance use and mental health risk

Client:

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Assessment of JED Campus Approach to Suicide Prevention

Recommendations for enhancing implementation of the nation’s leading college suicide prevention program

Client:

JED Foundation

Cannabis Prevention & Education Campaigns in Illinois

A study of the effectiveness of the Let’s Talk Cannabis and Unfaded campaigns

Client:

University of Illinois Chicago

Community Overdose Prevention Education: Project COPE

Evaluating the impact of training on behavior change, naloxone distribution, and overdose in New York state

Funder:

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

Evaluating Kentucky’s Medicaid HEALTH Waiver

Collecting data to assess the impact of Medicaid rule changes

Client:

Commonwealth of Kentucky

Illinois Cannabis Regulation & Tax Act Evaluation

Evaluated behavioral health-related programs funded by Illinois cannabis tax revenue

Client:

Division of Mental Health Services (DMH) within the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS)

Increasing Substance Use Provider Capacity (Illinois SUPPORT)

Examining the prevalence of opioid use disorder among Medicaid beneficiaries and barriers to care

Client:

University of Illinois Chicago

Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care

Implementation and evaluation of screening, intervention, and treatment for unhealthy alcohol use

Funder:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Trauma-Informed Unaccompanied Children Workforce Initiative

Evaluation of a trauma-informed training initiative for the Office of Refugee Resettlement Unaccompanied Children Bureau workforce

Client:

Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Publications

  • opens in new tabFidelity to Housing First in Permanent Supportive Housing: Staff Perspectives and Implementation Insights

    Journal Article | September 19, 2025

    Foell, A., Marino, N., Call, A., McLeod, B., Parra, S., & Ghobadi, A.

  • “People Can Recover”: Qualitative Findings from a Statewide Naloxone Distribution Project.

    Presentation | April 24, 2025

    Golan, O., Call, A., Marino, N. et. Al.

  • opens in new tabBarriers and facilitators to prescribing buprenorphine for treating opioid use disorder among emergency department and other practice setting physicians

    Journal Article | January 9, 2025

    Swartz, J.A., Franceschini, D., Marino, N.M., Call, A.H., Rosenberger, L. & Whitehouse, S.

  • Pivoting in a Pandemic: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from Implementing Evidence-based Practices to Manage Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care

    Presentation | November 6, 2022

    Marino, N., Harris, B., Call, A., Sirkin, J., Figueroa, A., Wallace, R., McPherson, T., and James, M.

  • Evaluating Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Adolescent Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Education in Social Work and Nursing Curriculum Using the CFIR Model

    Presentation | September 22, 2022

    Call, A., McPherson, T., Cohen, H., et al.,

  • Balancing Agility and Rigor: A Multi-site Evaluation of an Initiative to Improve Management of Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care.

    Presentation | October 24, 2021

    Call A., Sandberg, S., McPherson, T., Sirkin J, et al.,

  • A Multi-stakeholder Approach to Developing Outcome Measures to Evaluate an Initiative Promoting Management of Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care.

    Presentation | September 23, 2021

    Sandberg, S., McPherson, T., Call, A., et al.,

  • Mapping Medicare Disparities: A Tool to Promote Health Equity

    Presentation | September 6, 2018

    Call, A., Rosenbaum, A., Brady, J.
Research Library & Findings