Dr. Richard A. Kulka To Oversee Abt Associates' Survey Research Activities
Posted on: Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 12:00 CST
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Abt Associates announced that Senior Vice President Richard A. Kulka, Ph.D., has assumed corporate oversight of the company's Survey Methodology and Data Capture Group. In addition to leading the Survey Methodology and Data Capture Group, he will continue in his role as Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Development. Dr. Kulka joined Abt Associates in 2005 after holding senior management positions at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), where he was Senior Vice President for Survey Research, and RTI International, where he was Executive Vice President of the Social and Statistical Sciences, which included the Survey and Statistical Research Divisions.
For more than 30 years Dr. Kulka, a survey research methodologist, has been involved with the design, conduct and analysis of numerous surveys on health and other social policy issues as well as conducting a broad range of applied research on survey research methods. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers, articles and chapters based on this work. During the more than 30 years that he has worked in the field of survey and social science research, he has provided methodological design, analysis, oversight, and consultation on a broad range of federal statistical surveys on health, mental health, and other social science issues.
Abt Associates has a long-standing reputation for designing and conducting complex survey research projects that evaluate public policy and programs and provide statistical information to support government and business decision- making processes. The company has extensive knowledge of survey methodology and design, sampling methods, data capture, management, and analysis. Through its work on projects for governments, foundations, and the private sector over the last 42 years, it has developed innovative approaches for computer- assisted data collection, including applications in personal screening and interviewing, record abstraction in institutional settings, and telephone surveys. The company's clients have included virtually every government department and agency, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Food and Nutrition Service, the National Center for Educational Statistics, the National Center for Health Statistics, National Institutes for Health, and the Census Bureau.
"Our objective is to offer high value added capability -- in terms of cost, quality, innovation, and flexibility -- to our clients in the area of survey research. Survey design and data collection are critical to our clients and to most Abt Associates research, evaluation, analysis, and measurement projects. As such, we want to be on the cutting edge in terms of design and sampling methodology, as well as analysis," said Dr. Kulka.
Kulka holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Tulane University in Sociology. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Demographic Studies at Duke University. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the Board of Directors of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) and the Steering Committee for the triennial Conferences on Health Survey Research Methods, as well as on several expert panels for the Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, and Institute of Medicine at the National Academies.
Abt Associates, a private, employee-owned company, applies scientific research and technical assistance expertise to a wide range of social, economic and technological policy issues; international development; clinical trials and registries; and complex business problems. Founded in 1965, Abt Associates provides services to U.S. federal, state and local governments; foreign governments; international organizations; foundations; and business and industry. Its staff of over 1,000 is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Bethesda, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; and in Africa, Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
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CONTACT: Peter Broderick, Vice President, Corporate Communications ofAbt Associates, +1-617-349-2882, peter_broderick@abtassociates.com
Web site: http://www.abtassociates.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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