Phoebe is a senior research director in NORC’s Public Health department with over a decade of quantitative and qualitative research experience focusing on improving health outcomes. She is also a skilled project manager, overseeing a range of projects sizes, budgets, topic areas, and team sizes. Her work includes using statistical tools to analyze national survey data to develop prevalence estimates for chronic diseases and identifying where differences exist across subpopulations, leading primary data collection through surveys and interviews, directing literature reviews and environmental scans, and translating findings into actionable information.
Phoebe is researching the American people’s stigma toward people with opioid use disorder and misuse to improve treatment for people with a substance use disorder. She also provides technical assistance to organizations serving Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) beneficiaries to improve health outcomes across the populations that CMS serves. Additionally, she is conducting evaluations and providing evaluation support to the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office. She also supports a number of chronic disease surveillance projects to develop prevalence estimates for vision and eye health, hearing loss, and Alzheimer's disease for the U.S. population.
Prior to joining NORC, Phoebe was a graduate research assistant at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health monitoring people’s exposure to mercury and analyzing the prevalence of childhood asthma across neighborhoods in the Greater Boston area. While at the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9 during a summer in graduate school, she compiled and analyzed data related to air and noise pollution across the country.
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Education
SM
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
BS
University of California, Berkeley
Project Contributions
Publications
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opens in new tab“Public perceptions of opioid misuse recovery and related resources in a nationally representative sample of United States adults”
Journal Article | October 20, 2024
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opens in new tab“Changes in Partner Seeking and Sexual Behavior among United States Adults during the First Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Journal Article | April 24, 2024
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opens in new tab"Collaboration and growth in a large research cooperative: A Network analytic approach"
Journal Article | February 1, 2024
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opens in new tabThe prevalence of bilateral hearing loss in the United States in 2019: a small area estimation modelling approach for obtaining national, state, and county level estimates by demographic subgroup.
Journal Article | January 24, 2024
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“Endorsement of COVID-19 Misinformation Among Criminal Legal Involved Individuals in the United States: Prevalence and Relationship with Information Sources”
Journal Article | January 5, 2024
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“Racial Discrimination and Mental Health in the Context of Anti-Asian Xenophobia: An Intersecting Approach of Race, Ethnicity, Nativity, and Socioeconomic Status”
Journal Article | December 19, 2023
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opens in new tab"Openness to change among COVID misinformation endorsers: Associations with social demographic characteristics and information source usage"
Journal Article | October 1, 2023
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“Associations between Partisan Media Consumption, Opioid Use Disorder Stigma, and Opioid Policy Support: An Exploration of the Media’s Role in the Ongoing Opioid Epidemic”
Journal Article | September 20, 2023