Lauren McCormack

Expertise

Interventions to Promote Health Behavior Change
Informed Decision Making
Health Literacy
Patient-Centered Communication

Biography

Lauren McCormack, PhD, has over 15 years of professional experience in health services research and health communication. She directs RTI's Health Communication Program. Her research focuses on promoting informed decision making through effective communication and measuring and evaluating the impact of health-related information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Dr. McCormack has experience designing communication messages, developing evidence-based intervention strategies, analyzing small- and large-scale survey data sets, and employing a variety of qualitative research techniques. She directs multiple health promotion studies including an NIH R-01 to conceptualize and measure health literacy and a study to develop measures of patient-centered communication for the National Cancer Institute and Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Dr. McCormack has presented her findings at multiple national conferences and in peer-reviewed professional journals including Health Services Research, Medical Care, Health Affairs, Health Care Financing Review, and the Journal of Health Communication.

Education

PhD, Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MSPH, Health Policy/Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; BA, Legal Studies/Public Health/Business Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Selected Publications

Evans, W.D., & McCormack, L. (Oct 2008). Applying social marketing in health care: Communicating evidence to change consumer behavior. Medical Decision Making, 28 (5):781-792.

Driscoll, D.L., Rupert, D.J., Golin, C.E., McCormack, L.A., Sheridan, S.L., Welch, B.M., & Poehlman, J.A. (2008 Aug). Promoting prostate-specific antigen informed decision-making. Evaluating two community-level interventions. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35 (2):87-94.

McCormack, L.A., Williams-Piehota, P.A., Bann, C.M., Burton, J., Kamerow, D.B., Squire, C., Fisher, E., Brownson, C.A., & Glasgow, R.E. (2008 Jul). Development and validation of an instrument to measure resources and support for chronic illness self-management: A model using diabetes. The Diabetes Educator, 34 (4):707-718.

Williams-Piehota, P.A., McCormack, L.A., Treiman, K., & Bann, C.M. (2008). Health information styles among participants in a prostate cancer screening informed decision-making intervention. Health Education Research, 23 (3):440-453.

McCormack, L., Mobley, L., Greenwald, L., Kuo, M., & Jensen, G. (2007). Part D enrollment: Facilitating informed decision making. Drug Benefit Trends, 19 (4):149-163.

Greenwald, L.M., McCormack, L.A., Uhrig, J.D., & West, N. (2006 Summer). Measures and predictors of Medicare knowledge: A review of the literature. Health Care Financing Review, 27 (4):1-12.

McCormack, L.A., & Uhrig, J.D. (2003). How does beneficiary knowledge of the medicare program vary by type of insurance? Medical Care, 41 (8):972-978.

McCormack, L.A., Garfinkel, S.A., Hibbard, J.H., Keller, S.D., Kilpatrick, K.E., & Kosiak, B. (2002). Health insurance knowledge among Medicare beneficiaries. Health Services Research, 37 (1):43-63.

McCormack, L.A., Gabel, J.R., Whitmore, H., Anderson, W.L., & Pickreign, J. (2002). Trends - Trends in retiree health benefits. Health Affairs, 21 (6):169-176.

McCormack, L.A., Anderson, W.L., Uhrig, J.D., Garfinkel, S., Sofaer, S., & Terrell, S. (2001). Health plan decision-making in the Medicare population: Results from a national randomized experiment. Health Services Research, 36 (6 Part II):133-149.

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