Our team
The Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) has a national reputation for assisting nonprofit organizations, foundations, and health departments in program planning, setting targets for success, assessment and evaluation design, data analysis, and sharing lessons learned. We invite you to contact any of our team members below.
Seattle
| Bill Beery
Director |
206-287-4390
beery.b@ghc.org |
| Emily
Bourcier
Research Associate/Senior Program Manager |
206-287-2035
bourcier.e@ghc.org |
| Carol Cahill
Program Manager |
206-287-4602 cahill.c@ghc.org |
| David
Cammon
Administrative Specialist |
206-287-4318
cammon.d@ghc.org |
| Juno Cavell Administrative Specialist |
206-287-4389 cavell.j@ghc.org |
| Allen
Cheadle
Evaluation Consultant |
206-543-3736
cheadle@u.washington.edu |
| DeAnn Cromp Research Associate/Program Manager |
206-287-2732 |
| Maddy Frey Research Associate/Program Manager |
206-287-4360 |
| Howard Greenwald Evaluation Consultant | 206-287-4394
greenwald.h@ghc.org |
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Sylvia Hoffmeyer Program Manager |
206-287-2399 hoffmeyer.s@ghc.org |
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Clarissa Hsu
Research Associate/Senior Program Manager |
206-287-4276
hsu.c@ghc.org |
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Maggie Jones
Research Associate/Senior Program Manager |
206-287-4604
jones.margaret@ghc.org |
Marie Kelly |
206-287-2200 |
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Heidi Merrifield
Program Manager |
206-287-4691
merrifield.h@ghc.org |
| Sarah Paige Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-2488 |
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Dave Pearson
Associate Director |
206-287-4391
pearson.d@ghc.org |
| Lisa Schafer Research Associate/ Program Manager |
206-287-4378 |
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Sandra Senter
Research Associate/Senior Program Manager |
206-287-4389
senter.s@ghc.org |
California
| Suzanne Rauzon Evaluation Consultant | 510-325-4128 srauzon@berkeley.edu |
| Rebecca Spring Evaluation Consultant | 510-967-8403 rdspring@earthlink.net |
Kentucky
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Muriel Harris Evaluation Consultant |
502-852-4061 mjharr08@louisville.edu |
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Bill Pfeifle Evaluation Consultant |
859-333-0543 pfeifle@uky.edu |
Bill Beery, MPH
Bill is the director of CCHE. From 1997 to 2007, he was the vice president of programs for the Group Health Community Foundation, overseeing the foundation's extensive evaluation activities. He holds an MPH (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974). Previously, he directed Disease Prevention and Community Services and The Center for Health Promotion at Group Health Cooperative. He has also worked in health programming and evaluation in Africa and Asia. Bill is a professor (affiliate), University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He has held academic appointments at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. His evaluation and research interests are community-based health promotion and prevention programs for low-income/high-risk populations.
Emily Bourcier, MPH, MHA
Emily is a research associate and senior program manager trained in social and behavioral sciences. She currently works on evaluations for Kaiser Permanente's Community Benefit strategy, including the national cross-site Community Health Initiative. She also coordinated the evaluation for Seattle-King County's Steps to a Healthier US Initiative. Emily’s work at CCHE has included an evaluation for the Northwest Health Foundation to assess the legacy of its first decade of community grant-making, an evaluation of Hope Lodges for the American Cancer Society National Home Office, a proof of concept evaluation about incentives and the built environment, an assessment of hospitality workers' attitudes and working conditions to help the statewide hospitality union gain a better understanding of its membership, and community needs assessments with Northwest tribes. She holds a BA in biological sciences from Smith College, and an MPH and MHA from the University of Washington.
Carol Cahill, MLS
Carol is a program manager with a background in information science and community health planning, with a special interest in community health assessment. She joined CCHE in 2005, having received a fellowship from the Sewell Learning Partnership to focus on strategic planning for Group Health's community benefit program. Carol coordinated implementation and evaluation of the Children's Access Fund, a $1 million donation from Group Health to improve access to care for children outside of King County, and participated in evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living Research Program. Carol received her MLS from the University of Washington in 1977 and earned a certificate in geographic information systems, also from UW, in 2008.
David Cammon, BA, PMP
David is an administrative specialist who joined the CCHE team in 2007. His previous work has been in the fields of banking and information technology project management and delivery. David earned his bachelors degree in history from Seattle University and Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute. David's key responsibilities include supporting the business needs of the group and implementing new efficiencies.
Juno Cavell, BS
Juno is an administrative specialist. She joined the CCHE team in December 2009 with experience supporting academic departments at the University of Nevada. Juno earned a bachelor of science degree in health ecology from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Allen Cheadle, PhD
sAllen is a research professor, University of Washington Department of Health Services and Community Medicine. He holds a PhD in economics (University of California-Berkeley, 1988). His recent work has focused on methods of evaluating community-based health-promotion programs. He has led design and analysis components of all of the Foundation's evaluation projects. Allen is working to move community-based evaluation methods away from the use of randomized controlled trials in the direction of qualitative case study techniques. He also works with multiple local communities to improve collaboration between UW and community-based organizations.
DeAnn Cromp, MPH
DeAnn Cromp is a research associate and program manager with CCHE. She earned her MPH degree in social and behavioral sciences from the University of Washington and her BA in psychology and anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous work includes contributing to the evaluations of community-based tobacco interventions among marginalized populations and substance abuse treatment programs in the Washington State prison system. At CCHE, she is coordinating the evaluation of Public Health – Seattle & King County’s Communities Putting Prevention to Work activities to reduce tobacco use and obesity, awarded from federal stimulus funds to empower lasting changes in community health.
Maddy Frey, MPH
Maddy Frey is a research associate working on several projects with CCHE. She earned her MPH from the University of Washington’s community-oriented public health practice program in 2009. Maddy’s experience with community-based organizations has been focused on a wide variety of public health issues, including alcohol misuse in veteran populations and evaluating the effectiveness of community health worker programs in East Timor. At CCHE, she is working on evaluations for the King County Food and Fitness Initiative, Healthcare Georgia Foundation, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, and Kaiser Permanente.
Howard P. Greenwald, PhD
Howard is a professor of Management and Policy at the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development. He is also a clinical professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health. He holds a PhD in sociology (University of California-Berkeley, 1975) with specialties in opinion research, organizational behavior, and the modern labor force. Howard recently completed projects on minority recruitment and retention in the health professions. He is currently directing a project on health insurance among employed California Latinos, and an investigation of racial profiling in vehicle stops. He has published on interventions to control violence and to reduce isolation among inner-city elders. His book, Who Survives Cancer?, reports results of a 10-year study on cancer.
Muriel Harris, PhD, MPH
Muriel Harris is an assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville. She holds masters and doctoral degrees in public health with a concentration in Health Promotion, Education and Behavior from the University of South Carolina. She has been a member of program evaluation teams and has worked as an individual contractor on multiple evaluation projects for several years. She currently teaches two program evaluation courses to master's students, both of which involve student engagement in community based project activities. In addition to her teaching responsibilities she has most recently conducted an evaluation of the Kentucky Tuberculosis program which had as its focus, reducing rates of TB among minority populations. Dr. Harris joins the CCHE team as a locally based evaluator for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky initiatives.
Sylvia Hoffmeyer, BA
Sylvia is a program manager for CCHE. She is supporting data collection and analysis, including organizing and conducting key informant interviews for Kaiser Permanente’s Community Health Initiative in Colorado. Sylvia has over 25 years of experience working in the field of project management and administration with community-based nonprofit organizations in education, social work, the environment, community outreach, and social change. She has a BA in liberal studies with a concentration in values and social change from Antioch University.
Clarissa Hsu, PhD
Clarissa is a medical anthropologist who holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology (University of Washington, 2000) and brings specialized training and experience in qualitative research methods. She is a research associate and senior program manager specializing in qualitative methods, research design, and participatory evaluation. Clarissa has worked on wide variety of evaluation and research projects including the Plan/Practice Improvement Plan Evaluation, the Partnership for the Public's Health (PPH) Initiative and an Ethnographic Study of Childbirth Education Classes. Her research has focused on the cultural, social, and political factors that shape midwifery care, childbirth, and end-of-life care.
Maggie Jones, MPH
Maggie is a research associate and senior program manager at CCHE with an MPH in community-oriented public health practice (University of Washington, 2007). Maggie spent two years at the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice working on an assessment of cross-border public health preparedness needs and evaluating public health training initiatives. Prior to that, Maggie coordinated the research program for a small non-profit agency in Minneapolis. Her research focused on using qualitative and quantitative methods to support organizational and community development around cultural competency. She is coordinating evaluations of Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky initiatives and the California HealthCare Foundation/Kaiser Permanente Specialty Care Initiative.
Marie Kelly, MS, CRCP
Marie is responsible for pre-award grants management. Before joining the CCHE team she was a business analyst for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Discovery program. Marie has extensive experience in grants and contracts administration in the health sector. She earned a BA in business and finance administration from Pacific Lutheran University and an MS in high school mathematics education from the University of Washington, and she is a Certified Research Contract Professional.
Heidi Merrifield
Heidi has responsibility and oversight for post award financial management, including administration of active projects, budget management and financial reporting through closeout of project. She has more than 15 years experience working in health care and educational settings. Her interests include using information technology applications to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial and project-related systems at CCHE.
Sarah Paige
Sarah is a research associate who is working with the Northwest Health Foundation on a retrospective evaluation of its Kaiser Permanente Community Fund grantmaking to address social determinants of health. She recently returned to the U.S. from Uganda, where she conducted fieldwork for her dissertation and managed the Kibale EcoHealth Project. Sarah earned her PhD in medical geography at the University of Washington in 2010 and holds an MPH in international health from Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include exploring the social and ecological factors that shape wellbeing and risk in underserved communities.
Dave Pearson, PhD
Dave is the associate director of CCHE and has worked in program evaluation for the past 25 years. He is a medical sociologist holding a PhD in sociology (Washington State University, 1979) and is a professor (affiliate), University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Dave currently directs field operations for all of the major health improvement efforts. His areas of interest include the evaluation of community based health promotion, tobacco prevention, and Indian health.
William Pfeifle, EdD, MBA
Bill Pfeifle is a professor in Health Services Management at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. He earned his doctorate in education at the University of Kentucky (1977) and an MBA with a certificate in medical management in 2003. Throughout his career he has been involved in numerous educational and service-related projects within the university and on state, national and international levels. His research interests focus on the impact of education and leadership on individual and collective behavior in the public domain. Dr. Pfeifle joins the CCHE team as a locally based evaluator for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky initiatives.
Suzanne Rauzon, MPH
Suzanne is a director of community health projects and evaluation studies. She has over 15 years experience leading community-based initiatives and developing organizational and community change strategies. She has developed partnerships and collaborative projects working on a wide range of sectors and approaches, including several school-based interventions, a nation-wide cardiovascular risk screening effort and work site health initiatives. She holds an MPH (University of California-Berkeley, 1986). She has expertise in strategic communications, change management and public health planning. Suzanne also has credentials in the fields of nutrition and exercise physiology, and is affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley, Center for Weight and Health.
Lisa Schafer, MPH
Lisa is a research associate and program manager with CCHE. She received her MPH in community-oriented public health practice from the University of Washington in 2009. Lisa’s experience with community-based research and evaluation includes coordinating data collection and analysis for a process evaluation of a malaria prevention intervention in rural Ghana and supporting evaluation activities for a project targeting metabolic syndrome among Latino communities in Idaho. Prior to that, she worked as a clinical assistant in a natural health clinic. Lisa is working on the California HealthCare Foundation/Kaiser Permanente Specialty Care Initiative and the Group Health Research Institute’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Expectations Project.
Sandra Senter, MN, MPH
Sandra Senter is a research associate and senior program manager holding master's degrees in pediatric nursing (University of Florida, 1971) and public health education (University of California–Berkeley, 1977). She has been with the CCHE Evaluation Team since 1997 and has coordinated numerous evaluations including the California Youth Takin' on Tobacco Program, The California Wellness Foundation Health Improvement Initiative and Tracks in the Sand evaluations, American Cancer Society Sun Safe Communities program, the planning phase of The California Endowment Partnership for the Public's Health Initiative, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living Research Program evaluation. She has served as evaluation consultant to the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Washington since 2003. Prior to joining CCHE, Sandra's experience included a range of nursing practice and serving as an independent consultant to health care organizations and health-related businesses with an emphasis on program planning, evaluation, quality improvement, health education, and training.
Rebecca Spring, MPH
Rebecca is participating in Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit evaluations in California. She holds an MPH with an emphasis on community health education (San Jose State University, 2004). Prior to working at CCHE, Rebecca directed an evaluation of HIV/AIDS medication adherence at a community health center in San Francisco and was responsible for overseeing quality improvement initiatives at a consortia of health centers in Santa Clara County, California. Her previous evaluation experience has focused on HIV prevention and treatment, tobacco prevention, obesity prevention, and food security.