2015 Conferences, Meetings, and Events
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Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health Annual Conference—Washington, DC—December 14-15
Charlene Kemmerer: "Parenting Education and Skills-Building Program Implementation Capacity in Local Health Departments" (Poster)
National Academy of Medicine 2015 Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Symposium—Protecting Patients: Advances and Future Directions in Patient Safety—Washington, DC—December 10
JudyAnn Bigby: "Where Are We 15 Years After Publication of "To Err is Human" and "Crossing the Quality Chasm"?
November
The Dual Eligibles Program Leadership Forum—Concrete Steps for Success in Serving and Caring for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries—San Francisco, CA—November 19-20
James Verdier: "Getting the Mix Right: Pricing, Benefits, and Risk Adjustment for Dual Eligibles"
Program on Education Policy and Governance Colloquia at Harvard—Cambridge, MA—November 17
Ira Nichols-Barrer: "Do Tests Aligned with the Common Core Predict College Success?"
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Fall Conference—The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy—Miami, FL—November 12-14
Center on Health Care Effectiveness Forum—Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices: Higher Value or Higher Costs?—Washington, DC—November 12
Speakers include: Ann O'Malley, James Reschovsky, Eugene Rich, Craig Schneider, and Others
American Evaluation Association—Exemplary Evaluations in a Multicultural World—Chicago, IL—November 9-14
American Academy of Pediatrics Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight’s—Shaping the Health of the Next Generation: Early Obesity Prevention Policy Roundtable Series—Arlington, VA—November 9-10
Mary Kay Fox, Participant
Center for Improving Research Evidence Forum/Webinar—Connecting the Dots: Using Linked Administrative Data to Improve Public Child Welfare Programs—Washington, DC—November 5
Ann Person, Matthew Stagner, and Others, Speakers/Panelists
National Health Policy Group Annual Leadership Forum for SNPs and MMPs—Lessons Learned on Pathways to Integration and Specialty Care—Washington, DC—November 2
James Verdier: "SNP and MMP Development: A National Profile and Key Issues for the Future"
USAID Global Education Summit—Washington, DC—November 2
Nancy Murray: "USAID's Strategic Impact Evaluations: 'LAC Reads' and E3/ED's 'Reading and Access'"
October
The National Association of Health Data Organizations—Yesterday's Vision, Today's Reality, Tomorrow's Opportunities—Washington, DC—October 28-30
Craig Schneider, Moderator: National Visionary Panel (Plenary Session)
Institute of Medicine—Implementation Meeting: Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders—Webinar—October 27
Jonathan Brown, Panelist: Measure Development: What measures are needed to ensure that evidence based practices are being implemented and improving outcomes?
Center for Studying Disability Policy Forum—Promoting Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Policies: Recommendations to Help Workers Who Experience Illness or Injury—Washington, DC—October 22
Yonatan Ben-Shalom, David Stapleton, and Others, Speakers
Center for Health Care Strategies INSIDE Meeting—Washington, DC—October 22
James Verdier: "Financial Challenges in New Integrated Care Programs: Deconstructing Rate-Setting Issues in Search of Solutions"
United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Conference—Reflecting on 20 Years of Measuring Household Food Security—Washington, DC—October 21
Ronette Briefel, Panelist: Advances in Food Security Research Over 2 Decades
Fermilab Women's Initiative—Nurturing Talent in STEM: Issues and Solutions at the National Level—Batavia, IL—October 19
Clemencia Cosentino, Speaker
International Conference on Health Policy Statistics—Statistical Science at the Forefront of Health Policy Research—Providence, RI—October 7-9
Mariel Finucane, Workshop Instructor: Getting Practical: How to Fit Bayesian Models for Health Policy Evaluation
Frank Yoon, Session Organizer and Chair and Eugene Rich, Discussant: Statistics and Payment Reform: Toward Better Value in Health Care
Mariel Finucane, Session Organizer: Tools for Policy: Bayesian Assessments to Support Decision Makers
Randall Brown: "Evolving Needs of Policymakers for Drawing Inferences from Evaluation Results"
Mariel Finucane: "A Hierarchical Bayesian Evaluation of Health System Change Using Administrative Data"
Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange Conference—New York, NY—September 28
Mariel Finucane: "What Works for Whom? A Bayesian Approach to Channeling Big Data Streams for Policy Analysis"
Society for Implementation Research Collaboration—Advancing Efficient Methodologies Through Community Partnerships and Team Science—Seattle, WA—September 24-26
Rosalind Keith: "Operationalizing the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to Guide Evaluation of a Complex Intervention and Produce Actionable Findings"
Center for Studying Disability Policy Forum—State Trends in the Child SSI Program: The Growing Role of SSI in the Safety Net—Washington, DC—September 24
David Wittenburg, David Mann, Bonnie O'Day, Purvi Sevak, and Others, Speakers
The National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging—Webinar—September 24
James Mabli, Jessica Ziegler, and Others: "Findings from the Nutrition Services Program Process Study and Meal Cost Analysis"
International Total Survey Error Conference—Improving Data Quality in the Era of BIG Data—Baltimore, MD—September 20-22
Donsig Jang, Chair: Improving Survey Data Quality Under Total Survey Error Framework: Application to Two Surveys of U.S. NSF—National Survey College Graduates (NSCG) and Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR)
Alicia Haelen and Donsig Jang: "The Effects of Data Editing and Imputation on Total Survey Error of the National Survey of College Graduates"
Nancy Clusen, Chair: Nonresponse and Measurement Error II
Nicholas Beyler and Others: "Adjusting for Measurement Error and Nonresponse in Physical Activity Surveys: A Simulation Study"
Sarah Hughes and Others: "Innovations in Data Collection in Resource-Poor Settings"
National Health Policy Forum—Washington, DC—September 18
Randall Brown: Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Care for Older Adults: Lessons from the Field
UKFIET Conference on Education and Development—Learning for Sustainable Futures—Making the Connections—Oxford, England—September 15-17
Amanda Beatty: "Learning Profiles in South Asia and East Africa"
Performance Management in Vocational Rehabilitation Annual Summit—San Diego, CA—September 10-11
Jonathan Ladinsky: "Learning from History: WIOA and Lessons from Past Performance Management Systems"
USAID School Dropout Prevention Summit—Washington, DC—September 10
Nancy Murray: "Do Early Warning Systems and Student Engagement Activities Reduce Dropout? Findings from the Four-Country SDPP Evaluation"
Washington Statistical Society Seminar—Washington, DC—September 9
Don Jang, Moderator: Non-Probability Samples
Michael Sinclair: "Non-Probability Samples and Panel Surveys: A Look at Two Strategies for Blending Panel Surveys with Traditional Probability Samples"
National Association of Welfare Research and Statistics—Strengthening the Safety Net: Challenges and New Perspectives in Promoting Employment and Income Stability—Atlanta, GA—August 23-26
Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference—Des Moines, IA—August 17-20
Margo Rosenbach, Moderator: Innovative Uses of Multi-Payer Data Systems and Management Tools to Promote Data-Driven Policy Decisions
Andrew Asher, Moderator: Driving Improvements Using Data Analytics
Jim Rojeski, Moderator: Credentialing Innovation through Technology and One-Stop Provider Credentialing Service
Clinical, Technical, Organizational, and Financial Barriers to Interoperability Task Force Virtual Hearing—Webinar—August 14
Ann O'Malley: "Testimony to the Interoperability Task Force of the Health IT Policy Committee, ONC"
Joint Statistical Meetings—Statistics: Making Better Decisions—Seattle, WA—August 9-13
Mathematica Staff Agenda | Mathematica Staff Agenda with Abstracts
Brooking Institute—Building Pathways from Education to Employment—Washington, DC—August 6
Beth Weigensberg: "Promising Practices: Lessons Learned from Successful Partnerships"
Disability Research Consortium (DRC) Annual Meeting—Washington, DC—August 5-6
McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Conference—Washington, DC—August 4
Yonatan Ben-Shalom, David Mann, and David Stapleton: "Integrated Employment Support and Eligibility Determination System"
David Wittenburg, Discussant: Interactions with Other Programs
Institute of Medicine Committee on Evaluating Approaches to Assessing Prevalence and Trends in Obesity—Washington, DC—July 28
Jill Constantine: "Establishing Research Standards: Case Study of the What Works Clearinghouse"
North American Spine Foundation, Spine 10x25 Research Summit—Chicago, IL—July 18
Yonatan Ben-Shalom: "Illusions of a Disability Safety Net"
QRIS National Meeting—Higher Ground—Taking Quality to Scale—National Harbor, MD—July 15-17
Sally Atkins-Burnett, Presenter: Two New Measures: An Overview of the Family Teacher Provider Relationships Questionnaire and the Quality of Caregiver-Child Interactions for Infants and Toddlers
National Center for Education Statistics STATS-DC Data Conference—Strong Uses for Strong Data—Washington, DC—July 8-10
Kristin Hallgren and Cassandra Pickens Jewell, Panelists: Building and Using Data Systems Effectively
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Webinar—Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement—July 8
Kristin Geonnotti, Speaker
Institute of Medicine Workshop on Value and Science-Driven Health Care—Washington, DC—July 7
Deborah Peikes and Erin Fries Taylor: "Improving Outcomes for High-Risk, High-Cost Patients: Considerations for Spreading Models"
National Association of Elementary School Principals Annual Conference—Best Practices for Better Schools—Long Beach, CA—June 30-July 2
Joshua Furgeson: "Encouraging Research-Based Instruction: Resources for Principals"
Disability and Employment Symposium—Research Informing Practice and Policy—Washington, DC—June 24
Yonatan Ben-Shalom: "Advancing Disability Employment Policy: The Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Policy Collaborative"
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting and Interest Group Meetings—Minneapolis, MN—June 13-16
American Society for Engineering Education, National Science Foundation—Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering—Seattle, WA—June 12
Clemencia Cosentino: "More Women are Pursuing Engineering Degrees, but Vast Disparities Remain"
Annual Bank Conference on Africa—Confronting Conflict and Fragility in Africa—Berkeley, CA—June 8-9
Ira Nichols-Barrer: "Impacts of Supporting Civic Participation in Local Governance: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda"
Informal Caregivers Research Project Webinar—June 5
Jaime Thomas, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Kimberly Boller, and Madeline Young: "Characteristics, Networks, and Needs of Informal Caregivers and Parents in
California"
Regional Educational Laboratory Webinar—Teacher Evaluation Systems: Lessons from New Implementations in New Hampshire and Pittsburgh—June 3
Brian Gill: Findings from "Professional Practice, Student Surveys, and Value-Added: Multiple Measures of Teacher Effectiveness in the Pittsburgh Public School"
Federal Evaluations for Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage Grantees Webinar—May 29
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic Webinar—Debriefing on study of PLUS credit standards and HBCUs—May 22
Matthew Johnson, Presenter
Center for Improving Research Evidence Forum/Webinar—Improving Public Programs: Advanced Analytics for Better Decision Making—Washington, DC—May 20
American Association for Public Opinion Research—A Meeting Place—Hollywood, FL—May 14-17
Center for Studying Disability Policy Forum/Webinar—Improving Employment Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities—Washington, DC—May 12
Arif Mamun, Lori Timmins, and Others, Speakers
Leadership and Faculty Development Program Conference and Minority Health Policy Annual Meeting—Cambridge, MA—May 4
Clemencia Cosentino: "Assessing the Effectiveness of Efforts to Diversify the Health Professions: Evidence from the RWJF Summer Medical and Dental Education
Program"
Population Association of America Conference—San Diego, CA—April 30-May 2
Anitha Sivasankaran: "Work and Women's Marriage, Fertility, and Empowerment: Evidence from Textile Mill Employment in India"
National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers—The Intersection of Rehabilitation and Community Living—Alexandria, VA—April 30-May 1
David Mann: "Starting Behind: Wage and Employment Differentials Between Young Adults With and Without Disabilities"
Arif Mamun and Others: "Return to Work of Disability Insurance Beneficiaries Who Do and Don't Access State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Services"
Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting—San Diego, CA—April 25-28
Joseph Zickafoose: "Parents' Preferences for Enhanced Access in the Pediatric Medical Home: A Discrete Choice Experiment"
Conference on Transparency and Reproducibility in Federal Evaluations—Washington, DC—April 22
Arif Mamun: "Enhancing Integrity of Experimental Evaluations of Social Programs: Thoughts on Researcher Bias and Registration of Pre-Analysis Plans"
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting—Toward Justice: Culture, Language, and Heritage in Education Research and Praxis—Chicago, IL—April 16-20
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Spring Conference—How Policymakers Use APPAM Member Research—Washington, DC—April 11
Irma Perez-Johnson, Session Participant: Moving Behavioral Sciences into Policy
Marsha Gold, Session Participant: Making Public Policy Research Useful and Used: Lessons from Health Services Research and Beyond
Jennifer de Vallance, Session Participant: Data Visualization and Translation: 21st Century Tools for Effectively Communicating, Implementing, and Sharing Research
Barbara Devaney and Adam Coyne, Session Participants: Simple Isn't Stupid: How to Maintain Rigor and relevance in a Twitter and Sound Bite World
Matthew Stagner, Session Participant: The Two-Way Street: A Conversation Among Policymakers and Researchers About Strategies for Successful Researcher-Policymaker Interaction
Arif Mamun, Session Participant: Ensuring Policy Research Is Credible and Unbiased: Recent Work has Uncovered a Troubling Pattern in Social Science Research
National Academy of Sciences Briefing Webinar—Washington, DC—April 8
Allen Schirm
and Others, Panelists: "Affordability of National Flood Insurance Premiums—Report 1"
SNP Alliance Executive Roundtable on SNP/MMP Policy—Working Together to Advance Specialized Managed Care—Washington, DC—March 30-31
James Verdier: "Integration of Medicare and Medicaid for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: State Efforts Inside and Outside Demonstration Authority"
National Medical Home Summit—Philadelphia, PA—March 23-25
Deborah Peikes: "What Does the Research Tell Us" (Plenary Session) and "Using Practice Facilitators to Initiate Quality Improvement" (Networking Roundtable)
Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting—Philadelphia, PA—March 19-21
Center on Health Care Effectiveness Forum/Webinar—The SGR Fix: A Pathway to Fundamental Physician Payment Reform?—Washington, DC—March 11
Eugene Rich, Opening Statement and Moderator. Speakers include: Mai Hubbard, James Reschovsky, and Others
Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference—Ubuntu! Imagining a Humanist Education Globally—Washington, DC—March 8-13
Emilie Bagby: "Niger IMAGINE Long-Term Evaluation"
Emilie Bagby, Anca Dumitrescu, Cara Orfield, and Matt Sloan: "Niger IMAGINE Program: Long-Term Impact Evaluation Findings"
Nancy Murray: "LAC Reads: Lessons Learned on Coordination and Collaboration Around Impact Evaluation: An Evaluator's Perspective"
Nancy Murray, Quinn Moore, Emilie Bagby, Mark Strayer, Ali Protik, and Others: "School Dropout Prevention Pilot (SDPP) Program: Midterm Impacts"
Ira Nichols-Barrer and Matt Sloan: "Embedding Rigorous Evaluation Designs in Education Interventions: A Collaborative Approach"
University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform Lecture—Fayetteville, AR—March 6
Brian Gill: "Re-Imagining Accountability in K-12 Education: A Behavioral Perspective"
Federal CASIC Workshops—Suitland, MD—March 4-5
Annual Conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy—Research Informing Practice, Practice Informing Research—Washington, DC—February 26-28
Center for Studying Disability Policy Forum/Webinar—Early Findings from the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND)—Washington, DC—February 26
Panel of Experts Include: David Stapleton and Others
Universidad Iberoamericana—Mexico City, NM—February 5-6
Steven Glazerman: "Using Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers' Impact" (mini-course) and "Impacts of Selective Teacher Transfer Incentives: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial" (seminar)
Center for Improving Research Evidence Forum/Webinar—Transforming Technical Assistance: Using Evidence to Enrich the Experience—Washington, DC—January 22
Panel of Experts Include: Ann Person, Michelle Derr, Len Finocchio, and Others
