Tara Carr is a Research Program Manager at Abacus Evaluation. She provides evaluation management for Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics – Underserved Populations (RADx-UP), NIH HEAL Initiative®| Heal Connections, and the Clinical Scholars national leadership program.
She earned her MPH and PhD degrees in Nutrition from the Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill, with an emphasis in nutrition intervention and policy. Prior to joining Abacus, she was a Graduate Research Assistant with the Children’s Healthy Weight Research Group at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, working on evaluation for federally-funded, multi-level intervention studies in the early care and education setting. As an Early Care and Education Research Scholar, supported by the Office of Planning, Evaluation, & Research (OPRE), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), her doctoral research used mixed-methods to better understand predictors of child care teachers’ feeding styles, which have been implicated in the development of childhood obesity. While a doctoral student, she was also a member of the Evaluation Team for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded 100 Million Healthier Lives Campaign – Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) 2.0 initiative.
Her research interests include community-based participatory research and evaluation of complex interventions that address health and well-being disparities.
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