Battelle delivers solutions to complex public health problems using expertise in the core public health sciences, professional survey operations, and world class bench scientists.

OUR APPROACH

We build a multidisciplinary team to suit the needs of your research project, combining expertise in the core public health disciplines (epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine), social and behavioral sciences, evaluation expertise, survey operations, chemistry, and the biological sciences. Our process and effectiveness evaluations improve program outcomes while maximizing stakeholder participation and minimizing data collection burdens on agency staff and program beneficiaries. Using interdisciplinary teams comprising evaluators, behavioral scientists, research design experts, survey methodologists, statisticians, and analysts, we provide consistent data collection across program sites, useful results to all stakeholders, and technical assistance to build program evaluation capacity.

Research and Evaluation Services include:

Social & Behavioral Research - Experts in applying findings to public health practice, our social and behavioral scientists will design, implement, and evaluate your programs in a manner intended to assist in the prevention and control  of injury and disease. They specialize in theoretically-based, methodologically rigorous research on the causes and consequences of health-related decisions and behaviors.

Health Services Research - We have the people and facilities available to incorporate any expertise needed to conduct your health services research project, including specialists in clinical medicine, nursing, evaluation design, survey sampling, survey operations, biostatistics, and economic analysis, among other disciplines.

Epidemiologic Study Design and Analysis - Battelle’s team of epidemiologists and biostatisticians apply decades of experience in a variety of settings.

Survey Operations and Data Collection - As a full-service professional data collection organization, we conduct formative research and cognitive testing in conjunction with questionnaire development. Data collection capabilities include:

• Telephone interviews (CATI)
• Face-to-face interviews
• Self-administered web-based surveys
• Record abstraction
• Collection of clinical, biological, and environmental specimens