Margaret B. Hargreaves
Senior Researcher

For the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), she recently directed a Latino HIV engagement and retention best practice study; she currently directs the HRSA Healthy Weight Collaborative evaluation and the HRSA Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program study. She is also task leader of the HRSA Combatting Autism Act Initiative’s State Implementation Grants evaluation, the HRSA HIV Clinician Workforce survey, the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) Ryan White Program Modeling project, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Learning Collaborative to Support the Development of a High Performing State Health Coverage Program.

Hargreaves is recognized for her expertise in complex system change evaluations and qualitative research methods. She led the network survey/system change evaluation task of the Integration Initiative, a multiyear effort using systemic approaches to revitalize neighborhoods and improve the lives of low-income residents in four cities. She co-led the design of the system change evaluation for the 17-site, national cross-site evaluation of the Children’s Bureau’s Grantee Cluster Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs. She led the system evaluation plan and data collection for the 18-site national cross-site evaluation of CMS’ Real Choice System Transformation Grants. She also wrote Evaluating System Change: A Planning Guide (April 2010) to help agencies and foundations plan better system change evaluations.

Hargreaves is program co-chair of the Systems in Evaluation Topical Interest Group of the American Evaluation Association, an associate of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, and member of the American Public Health Association. She has a Ph.D. in health policy and evaluation, health disparities from the Union Institute and University and an M.P.P. in social welfare policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.