Epidemiology: Open Access
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Biography

Since 2004, Dr. Harwood has been the evaluation leader or co-leader for several infrastructure-type programs at the University of Minnesota, for example: the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (a NIH CTSA site as of June 2011), the Center for Health Equity, the Minnesota Center for Cancer Collaborations, and the Center for Excellence in Women’s Health. She has over 20 years of program evaluation experience. She was the faculty director of the Health Survey Research Center until June 2011. Trained as a sociologist at the University of Georgia, her broad research focus since 1997 is in social epidemiology at Minnesota’s Epidemiology and Community Health division where she is an Associate Professor.

Research Interest

Social and behavioral epidemiology
Community health program, policy and organizational evaluations
Qualitative, quantitative, mixed, and survey research methods
Health disparities research and community programming
Alcohol and drug policy interventions

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