Allison Dormanesh

Allison Dormanesh (she/her) is a survey coordinator in RAND’s Survey Research Group. She has experience in coordinating and facilitating diverse research studies with methods including multi-mode surveys (in-person, telephone, web, and mail), in-depth and semi-structured interviews, and methods to evaluate school-based interventions. She has expertise and training in developing survey instruments for a wide range of populations from youth to older adults and is well versed in qualitative data analysis.

Dormanesh has assisted on instrument development and planning for CAHPS VI and has conducted interviews with Medicare beneficiaries (CMS). In addition, she has a research background in public health and sociology and has overseen and managed projects focused on issues affecting predominately low-income and underrepresented communities and that leverage data from social media to understand the impact of tobacco marketing on health behaviors. She has produced research publications in journals such as Tobacco Control, JAMA Pediatrics, JMIR, among others.