Director of Maternal and Child Health Program, Applied Research
University of Missouri Kansas City-Institute for Human Development
Kansas City, MO
Danielle Chiang (Ph.D.) is the Director of the Maternal and Child Health Program at UMKC – Institute for Human Development, and oversees several federally, state, and locally funded grants. She has a broad background in applied research, with specific training and expertise in quantitative methods, psychometric evaluation, and research design in psychological and social science. Her work at IHD focuses on overseeing effective program evaluation, including measures to utilize, effective data collecting procedures, data storage and management, data analysis, generating statistical conclusions, and making proper inferences for data-driven decision-making. She has also been actively involved in facilitating collaboration and partnership, fostering co-learning and capacity building among partners, and leading to a long-term process and commitment to sustainability. A few of her long-standing projects include the Team for Infants Exposed to Substance Use Project partnering with Children's Mercy Hospital (CMH), the Kansas City Healthy Start Initiative with Nurture KC, the Maternal Health Action Network with Missouri MCH Title V, the maternal health access project with Department of Mental Health, advancing MCH oral health project with CareQuest, and the health careers pipeline project with UMKC-School of Medicine.
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