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Karla Eisen

Senior Research Associate

Overview

Karla Eisen, MPH, MSW, is a Senior Research Associate with more than 30 years of experience in program evaluation, research, and technical assistance capacity building. She has expertise in child welfare systems; Indian Country child welfare and corrections; the military and veterans; alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse treatment; HIV/AIDS; and maternal health. Her expertise also extends to using qualitative approaches for data collection and analysis as well as survey operations, and she is practiced in multiple evaluation methods. These include instrument design; field data collection and analysis; case study and ethnographic methods; and computer-assisted qualitative analysis, primarily with NVivo.

Over her research and evaluation career, she has contributed articles to more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and presented on such topics as the emotional challenges for researchers interviewing military veterans, as well as the use of GIS within tribal health and human services.

Education

  • MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health
  • MSW, Hunter College School of Social Work
  • BA, Human Development and Social Relations, Earlham College

Certifications and Licensures

  • Licensed Master Social Worker, Virginia

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