Senior Research Manager
Center for State Health Policy
sbrownlee@ifh.rutgers.edu, (848) 932-4666
Susan Brownlee (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is a Senior Research Manager at the Center for State Health Policy. Dr. Brownlee coordinates survey design and data collection efforts at the Center and conducts statistical analyses of this data. She provides research support such as survey design, project management, statistical analysis, and publication and dissemination for a number of current and recent CSHP projects centering around Access and Coverage, Health Workforce, and Population Health, including the New Jersey Health & Well-Being Poll, the New Jersey Primary Care Practice Survey, the New Jersey Family Health Survey, the SPUH/RWJUH Community Health Needs Assessment (PI), the Impact of Environmental Changes on Children’s BMI and Behaviors: A Panel Study, the New Jersey Provider HIT Evaluation Survey (PI), the New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study, the New Jersey Health Care Reform Opinion Poll (PI), the New Jersey Safe Kids Evaluation (PI), the Evaluation of the Availability of Physician Services in New Jersey (PI), and an evaluation of the Medicaid managed care enrollment experiences of developmentally disabled NJ residents (Co-PI). She has also mentored numerous interns in Project L/EARN, an undergraduate research training program for students under-represented in health research. Previously, Dr. Brownlee was an Assistant Research Professor in health psychology and project manager of a 10-year longitudinal study of emotional factors in the health of older adults at the Rutgers Center for Research on Health and Behavior (Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research).
