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NORC at the University Chicago

Phoebe Lamuda

Senior Research Director
Public Health
Public Health Analytics Program Area

Phoebe is a mixed-methods researcher whose work focuses on identifying strategies to improve health outcomes.

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.  Additionally, she is conducting evaluations and providing evaluation training and technical assistance (T/TA) 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, and Alzheimer's disease for the U.S. population.

Earlier work at NORC included leading a team of program evaluators to provide T/TA to the HHS Office of Minority Health grantees. She also provided TA to organizations serving the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) beneficiaries seeking to improve health outcomes across the population that CMS serves. She was also instrumental on developing Sound Check, a website that provides the first-ever state and county-level prevalence estimate of bilateral hearing loss. 

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.

Project Contributions

STEADI Fall Prevention Evaluation

Assessing the cost-effectiveness and adherence of a fall prevention program in primary care settings

Client:

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Expanding Hearing Loss Education & Awareness

The nation’s first ever state- and county-level hearing loss prevalence estimates

Client:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Improving and Enhancing U.S. Vision & Eye Health Surveillance

The most comprehensive system to track eye diseases and vision loss

Client:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Diabetes Translation, Vision Health Initiative

Network-Driven COVID-19 Prevention (RADx-UP)

Randomized control trials to evaluate network-based approaches to promote COVID-19 prevention

Client:

National Institute of Drug Abuse

HHS OMH Performance Improvement Management System

Identifying best and promising practices to improve the health of the U.S. population

Client:

DHHS Office of Minority Health

Media Influence on Opioid Stigma & Policy Support

Analyzing how partisan media shapes views on opioid use disorder and influences policy

Funder:

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Support for the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network

Building the evidence base for addressing opioid use disorder (OUD) stigma and access to OUD treatment

Client:

National Institute of Drug Abuse

Analyzing Opioid Epidemic Narratives on Social Media

Researching how popular social media content shapes perceptions of the opioid epidemic

Funder:

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Network-Driven COVID-19 Prevention (RADx-UP)

Randomized control trials to evaluate network-based approaches to promote COVID-19 prevention

Client:

National Institute of Drug Abuse

Evaluation Training & Technical Assistance for the Department of Defense

Evaluation training, TA, and rigorous evaluations of DoD prevention of sexual assault and other harmful behaviors

Client:

Department of Defense

Improving Data Disaggregation Standards for Asian Americans

Developing evidence-based, community-informed recommendations for data collection, analysis, and use

Client:

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Publications

Research Library & Findings