Abhi Joshi, MCS is a Data Analyst for the UNC Sheps Center Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy, providing data management and statistical analysis services. Abhi holds a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Statistics from UNC Charlotte and a concentration in Software, Systems & Networks. He also holds a Master of… Read more »
Brooke Lombardi, PhD, MSW, joined our team as a Research Associate/Project Manager on the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center and the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center. Dr. Lombardi holds both a PhD in Social Work and an MSW from UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Lombardi’s work focuses on the intersection of sexual victimization and the perinatal period… Read more »
Haley Simons joined our team as a Program Coordinator. Haley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her work focuses on structural forces that impact healthcare service accessibility, with a specific focus on access to sexual and reproductive health services. Haley will be supporting the… Read more »
Connor Sullivan, PhD is a Research Associate / Data Analyst for the UNC Sheps Center Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy, providing data management and statistical analysis services for the Health Workforce Division. Connor holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Virginia Tech and received his undergraduate degree from UNC Chapel Hill. Prior to… Read more »
Emily is a Research Project Manager with the Program for Health Workforce Research and Policy. Dr. McCartha is particularly interested in the intersection of research and decision-making and policy formation. Her former research areas include public health, education, organizational structure, networks, and budget and finance. She joins the Sheps Center after spending five years in… Read more »
Dr. Lombardi holds faculty appointments at UNC as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and as a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work. Dr. Lombardi received her master’s degree in Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD in Social Work from the University of North Carolina… Read more »
Evan Galloway, MPS is a Research Associate with the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. He develops web-based interactive visualizations for exploring health workforce data. He received his Master of Professional Science in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of North Carolina at… Read more »
EDUCATION 1987 Doctor of Public Health. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, School of Public Health. Department of Maternal Child Health. Dissertation: “The Role of Mothers’ Knowledge and Beliefs Influencing Behaviors Associated with Infant Diarrhea: A Study of the Determinants of Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Behaviors Among A Sample of Philippine Mothers in Cebu City, 1985.”… Read more »
Mark Holmes, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. He received his BS in Mathematics and Economics (with Honors) from Michigan State University and his PhD from the Department of Economics at… Read more »
Jacquie Halladay is an associate professor in the department of Family Medicine and a research fellow at the Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research. She is the Co-Director of the North Carolina Network Consortium (NCNC), a statewide Practice Based Research Network (www.ncnc.unc.edu) and is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology…. Read more »
Erica Richman (Carroll) PhD, MSW, is a Research Analyst at the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Richman received her PhD from the School of Social Work at… Read more »
Katie Gaul is the Deputy Director of the Health Workforce Technical Assistance Center (HWTAC). She is also a research associate at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. The majority of her work is centered on collecting, analyzing and reporting data on licensed health professionals in North Carolina; gathering national workforce data for benchmarking… Read more »
Erin P. Fraher, PhD, MPP is a health services researcher and policy analyst whose career has focused on generating workforce data to inform policy makers’ efforts to redesign workforce education, financing, and regulation to better align with population health needs. Her research focuses on interprofessional teams in new models of care, developing new methodologies to… Read more »
Jada Walker, MA, is Associate Director for Research Initiatives in the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She has a background in psychology and counseling as well as over 15 years of experience in health and public health research. Ms. Walker has a… Read more »
Research Associate and Research Fellow B.A., 1990, Dartmouth College (Computer Science and Spanish) MSW, 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill My work in health services research began here at the Sheps Center in 1997, with investigations in four areas related to childhood immunization in North Carolina: immunization coverage; parental knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions;… Read more »
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