B.A. in sociology, Goucher College
Jennifer Hawes-Dawson (she/her) is an adjunct senior survey director in the RAND Survey Research Group (SRG) with more than 40 years experience managing primary data collection projects. She is experienced with all modes of quantitative and qualitative data collection: mail, telephone, face-to-face, and web surveys; computer-based interviewing methods (CAPI, A-CASI, CATI); focus groups; cognitive interviewing; case studies; record abstractions; neighborhood observations; anthropometric and clinical measurements; and educational testing. Since coming to RAND, she has managed more than 40 surveys with diverse military and civilian populations to support evaluations of school and community-based interventions and research on a variety of public policy issues for diverse clients. She has extensive survey expertise in the following areas: school-based data collection; surveying educators, military personnel, and military families; community-based participatory research (CBPR); conducting research with religious leaders and congregants; field data collection; and longitudinal/panel studies. Hawes-Dawson provides technical assistance and consultation on survey design and implementation issues as well as planning and proposal support to RAND researchers across departments. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Goucher College.
Hawes-Dawson J, Derose KP, Auñon F, Domínguez BX, Felton A,Mata M, Oden CW, Paffen S., "Achieving broad participation in congregational health surveys at African American and Latino churches," Field Methods, 29, 2017
Bogart, LM, Elliott MN, Cowgill BO, Klein DJ, Hawes-Dawson J, Uyeda K, Schuster MA, "Two-year BMI outcomes from a school-based intervention for nutrition and exercise: a randomized trial," Pediatrics, 137, 2016
Bogart LM, Cowgill BO, Elliott MN, Klein DJ, Hawes-Dawson J, Uyeda K, Elijah J, Binkle DG, Schuster, MA, "Students for Nutrition and eXercise (SNaX): A community-based participatory research study," Journal of Adolescent Health, 2011
Necheles J, Chung E, Hawes-Dawson J, Ryan G, Williams S, Holmes H, Wells KB, Vaiana ME, "The Teen Photovoice Project: A Pilot Study to Promote Health through Advocacy," Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 1(221-229), 2007
Derose KP, Fox SA, Reigadas E, Hawes-Dawson J., "Church-based telephone mammography counseling with peer counselors," Journal of Health Communications, 5(175-88), 2000
Derose KP, Hawes-Dawson J, Fox SA, Maldonado N, Tatum A, Kington R, "Dealing with diversity: recruiting churches and women for a randomized trial of mammography promotion," Health Education and Behavior, 27(632-48), 2000
Cunningham WE, Burton TM, Hawes-Dawson J, Kington RS, Hays RD., "Use of relevancy ratings by target respondents to develop health-related quality of life measures: an example with African-American elderly," Quality of Life Research, 8(749-68), 1999
Ellickson PL, Hawes JA, "An assessment of active versus passive methods for obtaining parental consent," Evaluation Review, 12(1), 1989
