Deborah M. Fournier, PhD

Biography

Deborah M. Fournier is Assistant Provost for Institutional Research and Evaluation at Boston University Medical Campus and Director of Program Evaluation for the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU CTSI). She has more than 20 years of field experience in applied social science research, educational program evaluation and research evaluation and policy. Her primary contributions to the field of evaluation include exploring evaluative reasoning, warrantability of claims and the inferences drawn from types of evidence in applied field studies. She has edited such volumes as Reasoning in Evaluation: Inferential Links and Leaps, New Directions for Evaluation (68), and Progress and Future Directions in Evaluation: Perspectives on Theory, Practice, and Methods, New Directions for Evaluation (76). She is actively involved with the American Evaluation Association, having served on the Editorial Advisory Board of The American Journal of Evaluation, established and chaired the Topical Interest Group, Theories of Evaluation and has served as national program conference chair. Her applied scholarship at Boston University includes her collaboration with administrators and faculty to build and sustain capacity for institutional assessment of research, accreditation compliance, comprehensive program evaluation plans for educational programs, research institutes and research grant proposals, outcomes assessment processes and dashboards to guide operational and strategic decision-making, faculty annual evaluation and development systems, and numerous faculty workshops on theories, methods and practices in program evaluation, student/trainee career outcomes, institutional research and competency-based assessment.

U54 RR025771, NIH/NCRR, 5/01/08-04/30/013, Clinical and Translational Science Award; Center, D., PI.
Role: Co-investigator; Design and implementation of program evaluation and outcomes assessment.
The goal of this grant is to develop infrastructure for conducting clinical and translational science research.

K30 HL004124-07, NIH/NHLBI, 6/01/05-05/31/10, BU Clinical Research Training Program (CREST); Felson, D., PI
Role: Co-investigator; Design and implementation of program evaluation and outcomes assessment.
The goal of this training grant is to provide educational support and training opportunities for persons pursuing a career in clinical research.

K30 HL004124-07, NIH/NHLBI, 6/01/99-05/31/05, BU Clinical Research Training Program (CREST); Felson, D., PI
Role: Co-investigator; Design and implementation of program evaluation and outcomes assessment.
The goal of this training grant is to provide educational support and training opportunities for persons pursuing a career in clinical research.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 8/30/02-7/31/07, New England Dental Access Project; Frankl, S., PI
Role: Co-investigator; Design and implementation of program evaluation and outcomes assessment. The goals of this grant are to (i) enhance and enlarge community-based clinical education programs that provide care to underserved populations in the New England area and (ii) develop, implement, and monitor programs to increase recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority and low-income students.