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Scott Cody
Senior Vice President & Sector Lead, Human Services
Contact
ScottCody@westat.comOverview
Scott Cody, MPP, joined Westat in January 2023 as a Senior Vice President and Sector Lead, Human Services. He provides leadership in strategic planning and implementation as well as general oversight of 2 Westat Practices—Social Policy and Economics Research, and Education Studies. Cody, a nationally recognized expert in evidence-based decisionmaking, is known for his innovative approaches to program evaluation and program improvement, and his ability to translate complex evidence into clear, actionable intelligence. His methodological expertise includes experimental and nonexperimental evaluation design, machine learning, microsimulation, rapid process improvement, and systematic reviews.
Cody has led major studies for the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Education and has worked with the U.S. Department of Labor; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; the Congressional Research Service; and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Since 2018, Cody served as Senior Vice President at Insight Policy Research (now Westat Insight), where he provided oversight for the Food and Nutrition, Education, Family Support, Workforce Development, and Data Science practice areas.
Education
- MA, Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University
- BA, Economics, College of Wooster
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Journal Article
Under different roofs? Coresidence with adult children and parents' mental health across race and ethnicity over two decadesDemography
2023
J. Caputo, K.A. Cagney
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Journal Article
Protection from COVID-19 mRNA vaccination and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection against COVID-19-associated encounters in adults during Delta and Omicron predominanceJournal of Infectious Diseases
2023
C.H. Bozio, K.A. Butterfield, M. Briggs Hagen, S. Grannis, P. Drawz, E. Hartmann, T.C. Ong, B. Fireman, K. Natarajan, K. Dascomb, M. Gaglani, M.B. DeSilva, D.-H. Yang, C.M. Midgley, B.E. Dixon, A.L. Naleway, N. Grisel, I.-C. Liao, S.E. Reese, W.F. Fadel, S.A.
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Journal Article
Estimation of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine effectiveness against medically attended COVID-19 in pregnancy during periods of Delta and Omicron variant predominance in the United StatesJAMA Network Open
2022
S.J. Schrag, J.R. Verani, B.E. Dixon, J.M. Page, K.A. Butterfield, M. Gaglani, G. Vazquez-Benitez, O. Zerbo, K. Natarajan, T.C. Ong, V. Lazariu, S. Rao, R. Beaver, S.R. Ellington, N.P. Klein, S.A. Irving, S.J. Grannis, S. Kiduko, M.A. Barron, J. Midturi, M. D
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