Biography

Joe received his Ph.D. in Anthropology and his Master of Public Health from Case Western Reserve University. His substantive areas of expertise include program evaluation, qualitative and mixed methods, and implementation science.

Joe has provided research and evaluation consultation, project management, and data analysis for federal, state, and local governments and private foundations, including the Centers for Disease Control, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, the Kellogg Foundation, the Oregon Department of Corrections, the City of Cleveland, the state of Ohio, and the Mayor’s Office of New York.  Joe has taught social sciences extensively online, face- to-face classrooms, blended learning environments for research universities, for-profit colleges, liberal arts institutions, public state universities, and community colleges.  His research has been published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry; Social Science & Medicine; Cancer Causes & Control and The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology. Joe's research and evaluation activities have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the state of Ohio, and the National Institute of Mental Health.  His research has been featured on NPR and Science Daily.