Valerie Harder, Ph.D., M.H.S.

Dr. Valerie Harder is a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of Vermont (UVM) Larner College of Medicine. Dr. Harder is the Lead of the Surveillance & Evaluation Core of the UVM Center on Rural Addiction (CORA) and Director of the Pediatric Health Services Research Team at the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program, focusing her research on measuring the impact of public health interventions to improve physical health, mental health, and substance use treatment outcomes of youth and young adults statewide. Her research team leverages large administrative health data sources to assess the impact of quality improvement efforts, targeted interventions, and statewide policies. In addition, she leads evaluations assessing improvement projects around health systems in primary and specialty care. Dr. Harder received her doctorate in mental health epidemiology and her master’s in biostatistics both from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. View Dr. Harder’s publications

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