Britta is a principal research scientist in the Public Health department. Britta has almost 20 years of experience in public health research and evaluation. She is mixed-methods and survey researcher whose work focuses on women’s health and rural health workforce. At NORC, she designs and directs evaluations and serves as a subject matter expert on women’s health. Her recent projects have been mixed-methods cross-site evaluations for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, having worked at NORC for almost a decade, she has had the opportunity to contribute to a wide range of work such as developing toolkits, conducting systematic screening and assessments and evaluability assessments, providing technical assistance, and developing a variety of dissemination materials.

Britta is serving as deputy director for the Maternal Health Portfolio Evaluation for HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau and monitoring co-lead for the Transforming Maternal Health Model Implementation and Monitoring project. Additionally, she recently served as project director for CDC’s ERASE Maternal Mortality Evaluation Plan Development. She has contributed to numerous projects focused on rural health for NORC’s Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis on topics such as home health aides, mental health first aid, and an evaluation of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy’s Outreach Program awardees. She was project director and is now advisor for the Provider Resiliency Evaluation for HRSA’s Bureau of Health Workforce, which is an evaluation of three programs (45 grantees) that address burnout and aim to improve resiliency among the health care workforce in rural communities. Britta currently serves on the Policy Congress for the National Rural Health Association.

Prior to NORC, Britta spent eight years as a researcher at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) where she conducted survey studies in collaboration with researchers in academia and the federal government. Throughout this work she developed her expertise in designing survey research and developed a broad knowledge base about women’s health and women’s healthcare. Britta has co-authored over 60 peer-review publications, which focus primarily on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of obstetricians and gynecologists. Her PhD is in psychology, studying how people use information during medical decision making. She co-edited a book titled Numerical Reasoning in Judgment and Decision Making about Health published by Cambridge University Press.