Grace Roemer

Grace Roemer specializes in primary and secondary data collection, as well as federal performance reporting systems.  She also has extensive experience providing training and technical assistance to state and grantee-run health and human services programs.  Ms. Roemer is Mathematica's institutional review board liaison and oversees the professional development of survey research staff. 

Roemer, who joined Mathematica in 1995, is currently leading evaluations of the New Jersey Nursing Initiative, which aims to increase nurse faculty capacity in New Jersey, and the Army UCX Claimants Initiative, which was designed to foster innovative approaches to outreach and workforce service delivery to unemployed veterans.  Both studies use qualitative and quantitative methods.  She is the training and technical assistance task lead for the FaMLE Cross-site Study, assisting in the development and implementation of a performance measures system to be used by 90 Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees. Roemer has previously directed evaluations of veterans' priority of service in the workforce system and veterans' mental health treatment programs, and led administrative data collection and development of performance measures systems on numerous studies for the U.S. Department of Labor.   

Roemer holds a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia University.  She is a certified quality auditor from the American Society for Quality and a certified planner from the American Institute of Certified Planners.