Sarah Koopman Gonzalez, PhD

Sarah Koopman Gonzalez's, PhD, training is in Medical Anthropology. Her research has focused on understanding the factors that influence health and well-being, such as facilitators and barriers to health, healthcare, and risk behaviors, particularly tobacco use. She has expertise in implementation science, qualitative methods, and community-engaged research methods. Her work has regularly involved the engagement of communities to bring interest holder voice to understanding and implementing health interventions.  Dr. Koopman Gonzalez has extensive experience leading community engagement across the lifespan of research projects, engaging interest holders to develop research programs and instruments, and design health interventions for research studies. She has served as the Dual-Project lead on three PCORI Engagement Awards. She is also an MPI on an NCI R01, applying implementation science frameworks to co-design a community intervention for smoking cessation and assess the factors that impact the implementation of this intervention. Dr. Koopman Gonzalez's research portfolio demonstrates a consistent focus on qualitative and mixed methods approaches to address health and well-being.