Jason Markesich

Jason Markesich is the senior director for the disability practice within the Education, Employment, Healthcare Evaluation, and Disability division. He manages a multi-disciplinary team of survey researchers, statisticians, economists, health policy researchers, and project management professionals. He also helps establish and implement the division’s strategic vision, and leads various initiatives to improve operational efficiencies and data quality.

In addition to management, Markesich specializes in designing and directing large-scale multimode and longitudinal surveys and evaluations. He has expertise in studies that survey hard-to-reach populations (such as low-income families and people with disabilities) and qualitative research methods. Most recently, Markesich directed the National Beneficiary Survey. This study, sponsored by the Social Security Administration’s Office of Retirement and Disability Policy, collects data on the employment-related activities of working-age Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries. He has held leadership roles on studies funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

Markesich presents his work widely at professional conferences, such as the American Association for Public Opinion Research annual conferences, Health Survey Research Methods Conference, Federal Computer-Assisted Survey Information Collection workshops sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, the International Conference on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating Hard-to-Reach Populations, and the Interagency Subcommittee on Disability Statistics conference. He has published in Survey Practice and is the author of several publications on methods for collecting data from or about people with disabilities. He holds an M.S. in public policy from Rutgers University.