Project Director
JSI Research & Training Institute
Health Services Division
1725 Blake St
Suite 400
Denver,
CO
USA
80202
Yvonne_Hamby@jsi.com
Biographical Sketch:
Ms. Hamby’s areas of expertise are program evaluation, research, and quality improvement of health services delivery for underserved populations. She is skilled in quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation design, analysis, and implementation.
She brings substantial experience in developing programs related to STD and HIV prevention as well as the utilization of data for program monitoring and improvement. She has worked closely with DHHS agencies, CDC funded programs as well as state and local health departments.
Ms. Hamby has been with JSI since 1999, serving as the project director for the Region VIII Infertility Prevention Project. Her primary role in coordinating this effort has been to promote and direct development of quality improvement plans within each project site, of which there are six state programs. Ms Hamby’s commitment to and ability to work with local sites to collect service utilization and outcomes data is well illustrated by this project. She has worked with programs to develop standards for utilization of data at the local level. Most recently, Ms. Hamby completed a study to determine the effectiveness of the unique patient identifier system within the Region VIII Infertility Prevention Project as well as the ability of unique identifiers to track the utilization of services across diverse types of clinics. Additionally, she has directed the project to develop one set of criteria designated to evaluate the quality of care provided at family planning clinics for the Regional Office of PHS Region VIII (RQIP). Lastly, and most recently, she led a national effort to determine the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Infertility Prevention Project, a Chlamydia/Gonorrhea testing initiative out of the Division of STD Prevention, CDC. The impact assessment included a mixed-methodology data collection that included qualitative interviews and surveys to determine the impact of healthcare reform on STD policy, programming and service delivery on a national scale.