MPH, Public Health Leadership
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
BA, Communications
College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
Claire Ervin, MPH, is an Executive Director in the Patient-Centered Outcomes Assessment division with RTI-HS. Ms. Ervin has almost 20 years of health care research experience and specializes in the development, evaluation and validation of clinical outcomes assessments designed to evaluate product efficacy. As part of the clinical outcomes assessment development process, Ms. Ervin has led all aspects of qualitative research as well as documentation of this research consistent with regulatory guidelines.
Ms. Ervin has also led several other research tasks, including project management, patient and site recruitment, survey design and implementation, literature reviews, investigator and interviewer training, data collection and management/auditing, and analysis and reporting. Therapeutic areas in which she has worked include irritable bowel syndrome, chronic constipation, women's sexual/reproductive health, obesity, stroke, heart disease, anxiety disorders, depression, and autism.
Prior to her role at RTI-HS, Ms. Ervin served as the project manager for a multicenter, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)–funded, continuous quality-improvement initiative focused on improving stroke care in North Carolina. Her work has been presented at national conferences.