Beth A. Stevens
Senior Researcher

Beth Stevens is a senior researcher and area leader for Mathematica's work with health foundations. An expert on community and place-based evaluation, her research interests include the health care workforce, long-term care, health information technology, and health care coverage.

Stevens recently concluded an evaluation of a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to build community coalitions to strengthen the capacity of local long-term care systems. She is also directing another project funded by RWJF to assess innovative models for delivering health and social service programs on the local level. The study team is interviewing stakeholders and experts in the philanthropic sector, developing a scale to measure the innovativeness of project models, assessing the extent to which such projects are sustained and replicated, and examining the rigor of evaluations commissioned by the grantees.

An expert in culturally appropriate information on health care for the aged, Stevens has also supervised a national survey of Medicare information intermediary organizations, produced reports on decision making by the elderly and developed expert panels on culturally appropriate Medicare education. She also directed a $6.2 million, three-organization team effort to document and assess the effectiveness of state and local community-based coalitions in expanding the enrollment and retention into Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

 

Stevens is the elected chair of the American Evaluation Association Nonprofit and Foundations Technical Interest Group and has served on expert panels for the federal government as well as the National Academy of Social Insurance. Before joining Mathematica in 1999, she was a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.

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