Senior Technical Advisor
CDC Foundation
Tanha Patel is a Program Evaluator and Public Health Professional with over 12 years of experience managing, designing, and implementing strong impact and process evaluations. She has worked with local government agencies, state agencies, academic institutions, and community-based organizations to help build organizational evaluation infrastructure and facilitate data-driven decision making and strategic planning. She has worked on evaluation projects focused on tobacco prevention, asthma care and management, HIV/AIDS prevention, translational research, placed-based initiatives, and suicide prevention. While at the CDC Foundation, she currently serves as Senior Technical Advisor developing a national evaluation for coordinating center for perinatal quality collaboratives and providing training and evaluation technical assistance to perinatal quality collaboratives to build their capacity to evaluate their quality improvement initiatives among other projects.