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Kristin Nafziger
Associate Vice President
Contact
KristinNafziger@westat.comOverview
Kristin Nafziger is an Associate Vice President for Education Studies. She brings 20+ years of experience successfully supporting federal and state governments and foundations to implement high-quality, evidence-based programs to improve education outcomes for students and families. Her work involves translating research to practice by developing policy and program guidelines, providing responsive technical support, and implementing engaging research-based training to build educators’ capacity to implement programs.
Nafziger has demonstrated expertise in facilitating strategic performance management and communications working with clients to design and use local performance measures to continuously improve their organizational effectiveness. Her programmatic work has addressed diverse topics, including afterschool programming, school choice, early learning, K-12 interventions, and collective impact initiatives.
Education
- MA, Communication Studies, Texas Tech University
- BBA, Management, Texas Tech University
Areas of Expertise
Education Educator Effectiveness Learning Acceleration Policy Support Technical Assistance Training and CoachingTopics
K-12 Learning-
Protection from COVID-19 mRNA vaccination and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection against COVID-19-associated encounters in adults during Delta and Omicron predominance
Journal of Infectious Diseases
January 2023
C.H. Bozio, K.A. Butterfield, M. Briggs Hagen, S. Grannis, P. Drawz, E. Hartmann, T.C. Ong, et al.
DOILink for: Protection from COVID-19 mRNA vaccination and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection against COVID-19-associated encounters in adults during Delta and Omicron predominance -
A randomized trial of telephone-based smoking cessation treatment in the lung cancer screening setting
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Journal of Thoracic Oncology
January 2022
R. Williams, P. Cao, T. Li, G. Luta, L. Smith, J. Mandelblatt, J. Jeon, et al.
DOILink for: A randomized trial of telephone-based smoking cessation treatment in the lung cancer screening setting -
A task-specific algorithm to estimate occupational (1→3)-ß-D-glucan exposure for farmers in the Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect in Agriculture Study
66,
Annals of Work Exposures and Health
January 2022
M.C. Friesen, F. Hung, S. Xie, S.M. Viet, N.C. Deziel, S.J. Locke, P.R. Josse, et al.
DOILink for: A task-specific algorithm to estimate occupational (1→3)-ß-D-glucan exposure for farmers in the Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect in Agriculture Study