Chris Hafner-Eaton

Dr. Chris Hafner-Eaton has worked for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), Division of Science Policy and Public Liaison (DSPPL) since 2009. She joined the evolving Science Implementation Branch in April of 2012 from her previous post within the Planning and Evaluation Branch. Since coming to the NIH community in 2009, she has collaborated in many Health Services Research, policy and science translation activities including the: trans-NIH Comparative Effectiveness Research Coordinating Committee, Behavioral Economics, and Multi-payer Claims Database workgroups; the Trans-HHS Patient Centered Outcomes Research Taskforce; several trans-agency public-private partnership activities including Global Health, CER and Patient Safety; and the intra-NINR Women's Health. During 2011, Dr. Hafner-Eaton served a detail with the NIH Office of the Director within the Office of Science Policy, to assist in NIH OD efforts for implementing health system reform, Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Patient Centered Outcomes Research. In 2011, Dr. Hafner-Eaton received the NIH Plain Language Award for Symptom Management Website collaboration. Dr. Hafner-Eaton serves as a liaison to the American Public Health Assoc (APHA), as a section leader, elected Governing Councilor, Editorial Board, reviewer, moderator, author.

Previously, Dr. Hafner-Eaton worked in several European, Latin American and Asian nations (including living/working for three years in the Dominican Republic and Haiti for a multinational NGO). For two decades prior, she conducted original Health Services Research and Policy Analysis via consulting and also served as faculty for several universities and colleges. She has authored peer-reviewed publications and conducted research in: Access to Health Care; Women's Health; Health Disparities and Equity; Continuous Quality Improvement; Symptom and Self Management (including pain); and the Education of Health Professionals. Dr. Hafner-Eaton earned both her PhD in Public Health with Health Services Research and Policy Analysis specialty and MPH in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from the UCLA-Fielding School of Public Health, She also holds two UCSD interdisciplinary Baccalaureates: Urban Planning (Health), and Visual Arts, Media and Communications. Additionally, Dr. Hafner-Eaton has graduate certs in International Health/Global Health systems; TCM; Family Health;