Rog, Debra J.

(b. 1956, New Bedford, Massachusetts). Ph.D. Social Psychology, Vanderbilt University; M.A. Social Psychology, Kent State University; B.S. American International College.

Rog is Senior Research Associate in Vanderbilt University's Institute for Public Policy Studies and Director of the Center for Mental Health Policy in Washington, DC. She has more than 20 years of experience in program evaluation and applied research and has directed numerous multisite evaluations and research projects.

Her primary contribution to the theory of evaluation is to the study of evaluation itself, beginning with her dissertation, a study of evaluability assessment, for which she received the Robert Perloff President's Prize for Promising Evaluator from the Evaluation Research Society in 1985. She has continued to reflect on the practice of evaluation, especially with respect to conducting multisite ...