Center Director Brad Richardson, Ph.D., and Assistant Research Scientist Sherry Gao, Ph.D. of the Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation, presented at the 2024 Public Health Conference of Iowa, March 26-27 in Des Moines. Topics included "Using measures of community collaboration to strengthen public health interventions" and "Improving healthy equity through more accurate assessments of disparities."

NRC Assistant Research Scientist Sherry Gao, PhD, presented research findings at the 2023 American Evaluation Association (AEA) annual meeting on Oct 11, 2023. Her presentation was entitled “Examining the Construct Validity of the VI-SPDAT (Version 3) Instrument: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis.”