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Hargreaves Joins Mathematica as Senior Researcher

CAMBRIDGE, M.A. (November 20, 2008)—Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., recently announced the appointment of Margaret Barnwell Hargreaves as a senior researcher for the firm’s Cambridge office. Hargreaves has over 20 years of experience in public health, health care, and social service planning, policy development, and evaluation. She formerly was a senior associate at Abt Associates, Inc., and a public health administrator for the Hennepin County Community Health Department in Minneapolis.

Hargreaves, who has a Ph.D. in health policy and evaluation from the Union Institute and University, held various positions with Abt, including project director for the evaluation of the Children’s Trust School Health Connect Initiative, senior associate for the HIV/AIDS Bureau Client-Level Data System Vetting Project, and senior associate for Systems and Impact Research and Technical Assistance for CMS Real Choice System Transformation Grants. Her areas of expertise include complex systems change initiatives, collaborative public health and health care partnerships, disparities in health and health care, HIV/AIDS services, and utilization-focused evaluation.

Among her other professional activities, Hargreaves is currently the co-chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Systems in Evaluation section. She has also served on the faculty of Hamline University Graduate School of Management and the Metropolitan State University College of Professional and Community Studies. She has taught courses and workshops in program evaluation, outcome-based performance management, and in the planning and evaluation of complex systems.

“I am pleased to welcome Margaret to our staff,” said Margo Rosenbach, vice president and director of research for Mathematica’s Cambridge office. “Her expertise as a leader in systems-based planning, policy development, and evaluation will enhance Mathematica’s reputation for high-quality research and evaluation in the health field.”

Mathematica, a nonpartisan research firm, conducts high quality, objective policy research and surveys to improve public well-being. Its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Washington, D.C., Cambridge, Mass., and Ann Arbor, Mich., has conducted some of the most important studies of health care, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs in the U.S.