Research and Evaluation Committee

The Research and Evaluation Committee is developing benchmarks of success to promote shared accountability and learning throughout the Vital Village Network.  In this effort the committee is leveraging existing data systems and planning additional data collection of metrics of population-level change and to track benchmarks of child well-being, family and community-level protective factors, and neighborhood resources and risk factors.  Next, the Committee assists with the translation and dissemination of network findings to community, policy, and practice arenas. Finally, the Committee assists with the design and implementation of curriculum for graduate education (medical, public health, social science, human services, law) around community engagement, community-based research, and advocacy.  The Committee is composed of faculty from Boston University School of Medicine /Boston Medical Center.

• William Adams, MD
  Director of Boston University-CTSI Clinical Research Informatics, Director of Child Health Informatics, Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine 
• Samantha Kaplan, MD, MPH
  Assistant Dean of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director of the Early Medical School Selection Program at Boston University School of Medicine 
• Neena McConnico, PhD, LMHC
  Director of the Child Witness to Violence Project 
• Beth Monahan, CNM, MPH
  Director of Centering Group Care, Boston Medical Center Clinical Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston University School of Medicine 
• Genevieve Preer, MD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine Division of Child and Family Advocacy, Boston Medical Center 
• Megan Sandel, MD, MPH
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine Medical Director of the national Center for Medical-Legal Partnership Co-principal Investigator with Children’s Health Watch