Emily is a research scientist in the Public Health department at NORC with expertise in mixed-methods research and program evaluation, evaluation technical assistance, and project management. She has a strong background supporting the planning and optimization of health communication efforts. Emily’s experience spans a range of health domains such as vaccine hesitancy, chronic pain, and tobacco cessation. Her clients have included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), among many others.

At NORC, Emily leads consortium relations and engagement for NIH’s All of Us Participant and Partner Services Center (PPSC) – the coordination center for participant interactions and program management of the historic effort to build a database of one million or more participants. In this role, she oversees multi-channel communication with the program’s national network of healthcare provider and other partner organizations that support participant enrollment and retention. Additionally, for CDC’s National Partners Cooperative Agreement, Emily manages public health program evaluation-related training and technical assistance for state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments.

Previously, Emily led qualitative evaluation for CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases to identify strategies for improving adult immunization uptake. She also conducted research to inform updates to the General Social Survey website and digital tools for individuals living with disabilities, and developed an algorithm using claims data to identify patients with chronic pain for CMS. 

Prior to joining NORC, Emily was a social marketing research and evaluation manager at ICF Next, where she spent many years focused on digital health (mHealth) research and evaluation for the National Cancer Institute’s Smokefree.gov Initiative for tobacco cessation. Earlier in her career, she was a Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) Fellow at the National Cancer Institute.