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Westat Appoints Sunitha Mathew as Chief Growth OfficerMay 2026
Westat announces the promotion of Sunitha Mathew, MS, to Chief Growth Officer, effective May 4. In this role, Sunitha will be responsible for shaping and…
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Westat Announces Leadership Roles to Enhance Innovation and Client-Focused StrategyApril 2026
Westat announced new, expanded roles of Patricia Shifflett, MS, to Chief Business Officer and Scott Cody, MPP, to Chief Solutions Officer, effective April 1. These…
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Westat Promotes Wendy Hicks to Director, Survey Management and DesignMarch 2026
Westat is pleased to announce the promotion of Vice President Wendy Hicks, MS, to Director for Survey Management and Design, effective March 1, 2026. In…
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How High-Quality Research Shapes Smarter Healthcare Decisions: Westat at 2026 AcademyHealth
May 27, 2026
Westat health policy experts will be participating in the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM), May 30–June 2, 2026, in Seattle, Washington. This year’s conference theme,…
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National WIC Association 2026 Annual Conference Will Feature Westat Expertise
May 26, 2026
Courtenay Kessler, PhD, a Westat Senior Research Associate, will copresent at the 2026 National WIC Association (NWA) Annual Education and Training Conference, which takes place…
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Drawing Reliable Data From Open-Ended Responses
May 21, 2026
New research shared in Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation (PARE) tackles a key challenge in survey research: how to draw reliable, population-level conclusions from open-ended…
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AAPOR Executive Council Elects Hanyu Sun as Associate Secretary-Treasurer
May 20, 2026
Hanyu Sun, PhD, a Westat Associate Vice President for Statistics and Data Science, has been elected Associate Secretary-Treasurer for the American Association for Public Opinion…
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2026 Military Environmental Epidemiology Symposium Welcomes Gasper as Featured Speaker
May 12, 2026
Joseph Gasper, PhD, a Westat Associate Vice President for Education and Social Policy, was an invited speaker at the 2026 Military Environmental Epidemiology Symposium (MEES)…
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ACF’s 2026 RECS Conference Features Westat Expertise
May 8, 2026
Westat experts will share their research at the 23rd Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS), May 20–22, 2026, in Washington, DC. Convened by the…
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Westat Appoints Sunitha Mathew as Chief Growth Officer
May 4, 2026
Westat announces the promotion of Sunitha Mathew, MS, to Chief Growth Officer, effective May 4. In this role, Sunitha will be responsible for shaping and…
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Mims Elected Vice Chair of Surface Transportation Technical Group
April 29, 2026
Lauren Mims, PhD, a Westat Senior Research Associate, has been elected Vice Chair of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s Surface Transportation Technical Group (STTG).…
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Using Margin of Total Error to Improve Reporting of Polling Accuracy
April 28, 2026
New research published in the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology suggests approaches to improve how polling uncertainty is measured, giving decision-makers a clearer sense…
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Westat Experts Advance Conversations on AI
April 27, 2026
Westat experts are participating in and sponsoring the AI Day for Federal Statistics workshop organized by the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT), the Federal Committee…