Ariel Scalise

Ariel Scalise, MPH, is a second-year PhD student in Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As a research assistant for the Center for Program Evaluation, she contributes to multiple research evaluation projects.  Ariel employs both qualitative and quantitative methods within her research to better capture the nuance of understanding how interventions are implemented and function. 

Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Ariel worked as a project manager at Harvard T.H. Chan School of PublicHealth on the Apple Women’s Health Study, as the Implementation Science Project Manager at Boston Medical Center on the HEALing Communities Study, and as a data coordinator for the Floating Hospital for Children Tufts Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, managing and implementing quality improvement projects focused on patient safety.