Lauren McCormack, PhD, MSPH

Research Triangle Park, NC

Director, Center for Communication Science, RTI International

Represented: Researchers

Lauren McCormack, PhD, MSPH, is the Director of RTI International’s Center for Communication Science. Her work bridges the fields of communication and dissemination and involves developing, testing, and evaluating interventions to promote patient-centered care, informed decision making, and behavior change. A goal of her research is to provide patients, families, and healthcare professionals the information and tools they need to promote health and high-quality healthcare services. In 2013, she led a systematic review of the literature for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that focused on examining the comparative effectiveness of strategies to communicate and disseminate evidence-based information. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With funding from PCORI, she and colleagues are developing survey-based measures of patient-entered communication that can be used as metrics in many PCOR/CER studies. She received her PhD and MSPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

McCormack served as a member of the Advisory Panel on Communication and Dissemination Research from Fall 2015 to Fall 2017, when it was integrated into the Clinical Effectiveness Decision and Science (CEDS) Advisory Panel. McCormack served on the CEDS Advisory Panel from Fall 2017 to Fall 2018.