Evaluation & Assessment

Kresge Foundation Funds HRiA's Work in Asthma Prevention

November 14, 2009
The Kresge Foundation has awarded HRiA a two-year grant to support the Asthma Regional Council's Healthy Homes Promotion Project.

This funding will support three important components of this project across New England: encouraging health insurance providers to finance home-based environmental interventions and asthma education; encouraging governmental programs to adopt holistic and integrated healthy homes models via strategic planning and training; promoting national dissemination of HRiA's cutting-edge approaches and successes.
Lisa Wolff Lisa Wolff, ScD
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Bio
Lisa Wolff Lisa Wolff, ScD, is director of Research and Evaluation at HRiA. With an extensive background in community health and social marketing, Dr. Wolff brings a qualitative and evidence-based rigor to HRiA’s program planning approach. Her expertise developing survey instruments, moderating focus groups, and performing statistical data analysis helps to translate attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors into compelling, actionable programs.

Dr. Wolff has served as the managing editor of the Journal of Health Communication and has co-authored several articles for peer-reviewed public health and epidemiology journals. She received her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis, her master’s from Stanford University, and her doctorate from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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