Scheirer, Mary Ann

(b. 1941, Akron, Ohio). Ph.D. Sociology, Cornell University; M.A. Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton; M.A. Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh; B.A. Sociology and History, College of Wooster.

Scheirer is Senior Program Officer for Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her previous positions have included Independent Consultant; Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Public Administration, George Washington University; Social Science Analyst, U.S. General Accounting Office; and Senior Study Director, Westat, Inc. Before entering the evaluation field, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines. Scheirer is a sociologist and health services researcher with more than 20 years experience in applied social research, with an emphasis on evaluating health and human services intervention programs.

Her primary contributions to the field of evaluation have been to ...