Alanah is a senior research director in NORC’s Health Care Programs department with over 10 years of survey research experience. She oversees design, management, and innovation within multi-mode data collection projects. Alanah has particular expertise in interviewer data quality, projections and budget management, materials and mailings, interviewer training, and cross-team collaboration.

For the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), Alanah previously served as the data collection task lead and currently oversees special projects and innovation in data collection methodologies. She also supports data collection on The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72). There she improves processes and scales protocols for full data collection launch. Alanah previously supported the All of Us Participant & Partner Services Center and the American Health Values Survey.

Prior to NORC, Alanah served as a program coordinator based at the University of Illinois at Chicago for the Global Program in Occupational Health Practice (GPOHP), the Illinois Occupational Surveillance Program (IOSP), and the Great Lakes Center for Children's Environmental Health. She also worked as the clinical services coordinator of the Colorado Colorectal Screening Program.