Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Division of Adult and Community Health
4770 Buford Highway, MS K-30
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30341
Email:
dhz7@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Rivera currently serves as a Program Evaluator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He received his masters and doctoral degrees in Experimental Psychology from DePaul University. Since 2004, he has provided consultation in the areas of evaluation and performance measurement to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Diabetes Translation, and, more recently, the Division of Adult and Community Health where he is evaluating the national Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Program. Since joining the CDC, Dr. Rivera has served on review committees, task forces, and center-level workgroups. Prior to joining CDC, he conducted program evaluation studies for eight years in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He has also served as a faculty member for the CDC's Diabetes Short Course offered through Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and taught courses and seminars in program evaluation, research methods, statistics, social and developmental psychology, and learning theory as a full time and adjunct faculty member at DePaul, Northeastern Illinois, and Kennesaw State Universities. He has served on the Board of Assessors for the Georgia Oglethorpe Award Process (using national Malcolm Baldrige Award criteria) and is a founding committee member and Past President of the Atlanta Area Evaluation Association (AAEA). Mark has published in a variety of areas including evaluation of state- and community-level diabetes interventions, health literacy, performance measurement, public administration, coordinated school health, and professional competency development.