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MASStrong Program Evaluation

Beth Lehman Center, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

Role: independent evaluator for the statewide MASStrong peer-support program.
Population: nursing-home aides, home-health workers, personal-care attendants, and other long-term-care staff.
Program Format: confidential 90-minute online groups plus facilitator training and supervision tracks.
Evaluation Framework: CDC 6-Step Program Evaluation Framework.
Scope: support groups, facilitator training, skill sessions, certification, continuing education, supervisor training.
Evaluation Plan: co-develop an evaluation plan with partners. Define questions, indicators, data sources, timelines, and inclusion strategies for non-English speakers.
Methods: mixed methods. Surveys, interviews, attendance and training records, and administrative data.
Outcomes tracked: reach, engagement, retention, facilitator readiness, participant wellbeing, and workforce measures.
Data management: deidentified datasets, codebooks, versioned protocols, and reproducible code.
Deliverables: evaluation plan, instruments, dashboards, interim briefs, and a final report.
Status: ongoing.

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Social Services Needs Assessment

City of Medford

Objective: map all providers serving Medford residents.
Catalog: list each organization, services offered, eligibility, and access details.
Methods: provider inventory, validation with agencies, and structured data collection.
Analysis: gap analysis by population, service type, language, hours, and location.
Deliverables: comprehensive directory, gap analysis, and a written report.
Outcome: delivered the directory and report to the City.

Status: completed.

Gun Violence Prevention Program Development

Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)

Goal: inform the next procurement for gun violence prevention services.
Lens: racial equity across design, data, and recommendations.
Methods: quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
Community engagement: plan and run sessions with youth, families, and providers.
Literature review: assess evidence on effective youth and young-adult supports.
Data synthesis: integrate engagement, reports, and prior program data.
Recommendations: identify needs, best practices, and funding priorities.
Deliverables: evidence brief, engagement summary, metrics for RFP, draft logic model.
Status: ongoing.

Community needs assessment for the Town of Amherst

Purpose: identify priority needs for seniors, BIPOC residents, and unhoused residents in Amherst, MA.
Method: Deliberative Engagement sessions with quantitative and qualitative components.
Activities: instrument design, facilitated sessions, surveys, interviews, and rapid analysis.
Outputs: needs assessment report, evidence tables, validated instruments, training materials.
Capacity building: trained community responders to run Deliberative Engagement sessions.
Status: awarded and completed.

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Digital Transformation for City of Medford

Goal: unify health and human services data across departments.
Platform: integrated data layer linking Smartsheet, Unite Us, Google Workspace, and legacy systems.
Monitoring and evaluation: automated dashboards for KPIs and DEI metrics. Versioned code and data dictionaries.
Governance and security: HIPAA alignment, role-based access, audit logs, encryption, backup and recovery.
Interoperability: standardized schemas, API connectors, and ETL pipelines.
Accessibility: simple user workflows, forms, and reports for staff and leadership.
Scalability: cloud-ready deployment and load-tested performance.
Status: ongoing. Current work includes system assessment, data-flow mapping, draft data model, and a migration plan for a single source of truth.

Community needs assessment for Black Male Equity Study

Office of Black Male Advancement, City of Boston

Purpose: plan and launch a first-of-its-kind research program on Black male equity in Boston. 

Focus areas: economic opportunity, health, education.
Literature review: systematic search to map gaps and priorities.
Methods: deliberative engagement sessions, stakeholder interviews, resident interviews, surveys.
Participants: Boston stakeholders and residents, with focus on Black males.
Data management: deidentified datasets, codebooks, versioned protocols.
Outputs: needs assessment report, evidence map, sampling plan, instrument bank.
Status: ongoing.

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Equitable Approaches for Public Safety, Impact evaluation

Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)

Focus: outcomes and equity effects of alternative public safety models, including diversion.
Population: service recipients with attention to BIPOC groups and trauma from over policing.
Methods: site visits, surveys of service recipients and grantee staff, interviews with service recipients, quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Outputs: final report, cleaned datasets, codebooks, reproducible analysis files, executive brief.
Use: informed program decisions on equity and effectiveness.
Status: completed.

Gun Violence Prevention Program Evaluation

Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)

Scope: process, outcome, impact, and cost effectiveness
Context: program launched in 2020; no evaluations after 2021

Approach: concurrent process and outcomes evaluation
Methods: site visits; surveys of service recipients and grantee staff; interviews with service recipients
Status: ongoing

AI Applications for Health Equity and Operations

Birlasoft and Johnson and Johnson

Focus: health equity analytics, training automation, and compliant authoring.

Products:
Real-world data analytics for public health and equity research.
AI chatbot to train sales representatives with scenario practice and feedback.
LLM platform for structured authoring of regulatory documents.

Responsibilities:
Product design, workflows, and data pipelines.
Model selection, prompt design, and evaluation harnesses.
Human-in-the-loop review, red-teaming, and test plans.
Validation datasets, QA scripts, and benchmark reports.
Privacy, security, and audit logging. 

Methods and features:
Deidentification and PHI scrubbing.
Retrieval-augmented generation with source citation.
Guardrails, role-based access, and version control.
Structured outputs using schemas and templates. 

Outcomes:
Faster evidence synthesis and transparent provenance.
Consistent training with measurable knowledge gains.
Reduced authoring cycle time and fewer review rounds.
Clear traceability for regulatory and internal audits.

Equitable Approaches for Public Safety - Rapid Evaluation

Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)

Tury Research Institute completed a formative evaluation of the Massachusetts EAPS program to assess implementation fidelity and equity in participation and outcomes.

  • Scope: six municipal grantees 
  • Methods: document review, administrative data integration, stakeholder interviews, quantitative analysis 
  • Implementation status: 3 of 6 grantees delivered the model as intended 
  • Equity finding: few service recipients identified as BIPOC, misaligned with program intent 
  • Deliverables: findings brief, recommendations, updated logic model, quality-checked datasets, reproducible code 
  • Result: Massachusetts DPH received findings and adjusted program policy to strengthen equity and reach

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The Equitable Approaches to Public Safety (EAPS) program looks to identify and implement alternative approaches to traditional public safety models that are effective and equitable to the residents of the Commonwealth that best serve their community.

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Biostatistics for SaMD Projects

Samsung

 Tury Research Institute continues to provide biostatistical services for Samsung Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and digital health.

  • Designed clinical trial strategies to assess safety and efficacy.
  • Produced sample size determinations for randomized trials and real world studies.
  • Authored and refined statistical sections of study protocols.
  • Built statistical analysis plans and ran analyses for clinical trial and real world datasets.
  • Supported regulatory submissions with validated code, traceable outputs, and clear documentation.

National Institute of Justice and Boston University

Racial and ethnic differences in non-fatal firearm injury

  • Managed national hospitalization claims data.
  • Built a clean, linkable spatiotemporal dataset.
  • Applied ARFIMA models for space and time patterns. 
  • Estimated trends, geographic clustering, and risk gradients. 
  • Identified individual, neighborhood, and temporal predictors. 
  • Produced graphics, manuscripts and reports

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