Reseach & Evaluation Director
University of Michigan Medicine -Center for Health and Research Transformation, United States
Melissa Riba, MA, Research & Evaluation Director, University of Michigan, Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT)
Melissa Riba is director of research and evaluation at CHRT. She has more than 20 years of experience conducting applied research to inform policy and program improvements, including program evaluation, need assessments, survey research and equitable evaluation frameworks. She is also skilled in stakeholder engagement and collaborative research partnerships. Her areas of expertise include behavioral and health care integration, maternal and reproductive health, social determinants of health and health equity. as lead for CHRT’s Research and Evaluation Team, Melissa directs key projects such as the evaluation of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic demonstration project for the state of Michigan, as well as numerous behavioral health integration projects involving primary care and criminal justice. In 2009, Melissa began CHRT’s first statewide survey o of care consumers, Cover Michigan which tracks insurance status, access to care, health status, social needs, and other timely topics. In 2012, the Michigan Physician Survey was launched to collect and track data on physician experience, impact of policy change on practice environment, stress/burnout, and timely topics impacting the practice environment in Michigan.
In addition to her role at CHRT, Melissa is a lecturer within the UM School of Public Health where she teaches a course on health policy and advocacy, in addition to numerous guest lectures about applied evaluation approaches. She currently serves on the Ingham County Racial Equity Taskforce, as well as the Housing Trust Fund.
Melissa earned her bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Philosophy from California State University, Fresno and her master’s degree in Sociology from Michigan State University.
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