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Featured Expert

Cheryl Austein Casnoff

Cheryl Austein Casnoff has expertise in public health, health financing, and health information technology. 

NORC Experts

Please contact Cathleen Savage at 301-634-9411 or savage-cathleen@norc.org for media requests.


Norman Bradburn

  • Survey methods
  • Questionnaire design 
  • Happiness (Affect Balance Scale)
  • Humanities indicators

Henry Brownstein

  • Violence and violent crime
  • Drugs and crime and illicit drug markets
  • Crime statistics
  • Linking research and policy

Kathleen A. Cagney 

  • Neighborhood effects and health
  • Race and ethnic differences in access to health care and long-term care
  • Demography of aging
  • Life course approaches to research in health
  • Health status assessements

Cheryl Austein Casnoff

  • Public health
  • Health financing
  • Health information technology

Jon R. Gabel

  • Employer-sponsored health plans
  • Individual insurance
  • Uninsured
  • End-of-life care
  • Specialty hospitals

Daniel S. Gaylin

  • Program evaluation
  • Health information technology
  • Health policy
  • Data strategy

Douglas E. Himberger

  • Homeland Security
  • Homeland Defense
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Government Technology

Jennifer A. Kelly

  • Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
  • Survey design and analysis
  • Predictive analytics
  • Performance measurement 

Michael J. O'Grady

  • Medicare prescription drug reform
  • Public/private plan competition
  • Medicaid/SCHIP
  • The uninsured

Colm O'Muircheartaigh

  • Survey research methodology
  • Sample and questionnaire design and analysis
  • Response and non-response error
  • Data quality

Kathleen Parks

  • Research administration

  • Human subjects/Institutional review Board (IRB) protections

  • Project management

Judith Nell Petty

  • Advanced data collection techniques
  • Field operations

Fritz Scheuren

  • Statistics in the social sciences
  • Human rights
  • Voter behavior

Stephen M. Smith

  • Health care surveys
  • Survey design and analysis
  • Medicare and the elderly
  • Biomarkers and biomeasures
  • Health communication

Tom W. Smith

  • Trends
  • Survey methods
  • Cross-national research 
  • Public opinion, especially on these topics: Guns, Religion, Altruism, National Pride, Happiness, Sexual Behavior

Raymond J. Struyk

  • Social assistance
  • Housing policy and finance
  • Mentoring think tanks
  • Program evaluation
  • Technical assistance

John H. Thompson

  • Survey design and operations

Linda J. Waite

  • Social demography
  • Aging
  • Health
  • Links between biology, psychology and the social world
  • Working families