Vice President
Nicola Dawkins is a behavioral scientist with expertise in designing and implementing research and evaluation studies. She has 17 years of experience in developing research designs, developing and administering questionnaires and surveys, facilitating expert panels, conducting interviews and focus groups, and performing sophisticated quantitative and qualitative data analysis. She has applied her skills in formative, process, and outcome research and evaluation to many health-related initiatives, and her public health content expertise focuses on obesity prevention, women’s health, health disparities, and community-institutional partnerships.
Dr. Dawkins is highly skilled in evaluability assessment and has delivered several presentations and trainings and prepared manuscripts on the method, including co-editing an issue on the Systematic Screening and Assessment (SSA) Method for New Directions for Evaluation (which received AEA’s Outstanding Publication Award for 2011). She provides technical direction to ICF's research and evaluation community.
Dr. Dawkins has an Executive M.B.A. from Emory University and has completed coursework toward a Certificate of Advanced Study in Evaluation from the Claremont Graduate School.
ICF is presenting and exhibiting at Weight of the Nation™, a conference designed to provide a forum to highlight progress in the prevention and control of obesity through policy and environmental strategies.
ICF International's Nicola Dawkins presented "Beginning the Pipeline of Evidence: Using the Systematic Screening and Assessment Method" at the Society of Behavioral Medicine's 33rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions.