Sheridan Green, PhD, MS, is an Associate Investigator at the Institute for Health Research, an Assistant Professor with the Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, and the Director of the Partners in Evaluation & Research Center (PiER Center) leading a portfolio of community-focused evaluation research projects. The PiER Center team specializes in collaborative evaluation and research to improve the health of communities, supporting Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s social mission.

Dr. Green’s interests focus on studies centering equity, community voices, and the social strengths and needs of diverse, under-resourced populations; maternal and child health/wellbeing, including birth equity; and workforce mental wellness. She strives for work with a strong translational emphasis, supporting learning agendas for program, policy, and systems improvement.

Dr. Green earned her Master of Science degree in Human Development and Family Studies with a specialization in individual and family programming from Colorado State University and her Ph.D. in Applied Statistics and Research Methods from the University of Northern Colorado. She is a community-based researcher and methodologist experienced working in non-profit, university, and government settings. She has designed and led small to large scale intervention research projects within the fields of health and human services, TANF and child welfare, mental health, maternal and child wellbeing, and education.

She serves as the Colorado principal investigator and support for ongoing PiER Center projects. Her current research includes a clinical-research partnership to examine screening workflows for social health and trauma among depressed and anxious youth patients. She also provides evaluation support for a Food-is-Medicine initiative with a Denver-based non-profit Project Angel Heart that provides medically tailored meals and a city initiative called Love My Air that uses air quality monitors in local Denver schools and health clinics to support community education and health decisions.

Dr. Green recently completed several large-scale, multi-site, multi-partner national Kaiser Permanente initiatives including two Housing for Health initiatives examining housing supports impact on health care utilization and systems outcomes, [Project HOME (community sites across 3 KP regions), and Medical Legal Partnerships (community-based legal partners in five KP regions)], a KPCO Community Health Thriving Schools evaluation working with a community non-profit Public Education Business Coalition (4 regional cohorts across Colorado with 81 schools; educator professional development intervention with a focus on trauma-informed care) and the Kaiser Permanente national evaluation of the reach of social health screening (all 8 KP regions).