Shannon M. Sweeney, Ph.D., MPH

  • Senior Research Associate, Family Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Project Manager, Qualitative Team, ESCALATES Study, National Evaluation of the EvidenceNOW Initiative

Biography

Shannon M. Sweeney, Ph.D., MPH, is a Senior Research Associate working with Debbie Cohen, PhD. Dr. Sweeney is currently serving as an analyst and the Project Manager for the qualitative team on ESCALATES: the mixed-methods national evaluation of a $120 million federal initiative dedicated to using the latest evidence to improve heart health in the U.S.(https://escalates.org/). Dr. Sweeney’s research interests include the social determinants of health and mixed methods evaluation. Sweeney has a Master's in Public Health from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice at Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Planning and Public Policy from The Bloustein School at Rutgers University. Prior to joining OHSU, she was in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers University and was previously a Research Associate at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers and the Program Manager for the Douglass Project for Women in STEM at Rutgers. Dr. Sweeney enjoys running, playing squash and hanging out with her husband, daughter, Etta, and toy poodle, Clementine. She is a remote employee based in Concord, MA.

Education and training

    • B.A., 2007, Colgate University
    • M.P.H., 2009, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College
    • Ph.D., 2015, The Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey

Areas of interest

  • Evaluation
  • Mixed Methods Research
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Population Health

Publications

Selected publications

  • Baron, A.N., Hemler, J.R., Sweeney, S.M., Tate Woodson, T., Cuthel, A., Crabtree, B.F. and Cohen, D.J., 2019. Effects of Practice Turnover on Primary Care Quality Improvement Implementation. American Journal of Medical Quality, p.1062860619844001.
  • Ono, S.S., Crabtree, B.F., Hemler, J.R., Balasubramanian, B.A., Edwards, S.T., Green, L.A., Kaufman, A., Solberg, L.I., Miller, W.L., Woodson, T.T. and Sweeney, S.M., 2018. Taking innovation to scale in primary care practices: the functions of health care extension. Health Affairs, 37(2), pp.222-230.
  • Sweeney, S.M., Hall, J.D., Ono, S.S., Gordon, L., Cameron, D., Hemler, J., Solberg, L.I., Crabtree, B.F. and Cohen, D.J., 2018. Recruiting practices for change initiatives is hard: findings from EvidenceNOW. American Journal of Medical Quality, 33(3), pp.246-252.
  • Sweeney, S.M. and Von Hagen, L.A., 2015. Middle School Students' Perceptions of Safety: A Mixed?Methods Study. Journal of school health, 85(10), pp.688-696.
  • Sweeney, S.M. and Von Hagen, L.A., 2016. Stranger danger, cell phones, traffic, and active travel to and from schools: perceptions of parents and children. Transportation research record, 2582(1), pp.1-7.
  • Parker, S., Chambers White, L., Spangler, C., Rosenblum, J., Sweeney, S., Homan, E., Bensen, S.P., Levy, L.C., Dragnev, M.C.C., Moskalenko-Locke, K. and Rich, P., 2013. A quality improvement project significantly increased the vaccination rate for immunosuppressed patients with IBD. Inflammatory bowel diseases, 19(9), pp.1809-1814.

Publications

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