Sheridan Green, PhD, MS
Associate Investigator, PiER Center Director
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).
Selected Research:
- Evaluation of Project HOME: Impact of Rapid Re-Housing Intervention on Housing Status
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente National Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2024
- Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLP) Evaluation
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente National Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2024
- Thriving Schools: An Evaluation of Public Education Business Coalition’s Teacher Residency Program
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente National Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2024
Project HOME is an initiative out of Kaiser Permanente National Community Health. The goal is to rapidly house a targeted segment of Kaiser Permanente’s unhoused member population through an innovative housing model. HOME will be implemented in northern and southern California and the Portland, Oregon area. Dr. Green and team are leading the evaluation of the initiative. The aims of this project include a process evaluation to understand the operational viability of the Project HOME initiative (e.g., appropriate and effective workflows established in each region) as well as an outcome (e.g., members housed, members satisfied, appropriate utilization of health system) and impact evaluation (e.g., members improve social, mental, physical health and improvements in cost outcomes).
The MLP Evaluation is a cross-site evaluation intended to test a model within Kaiser Permanente’s clinical care and health plan to understand the initiative’s operational viability, shared value, and health care utilization outcomes. The study examines the reach of the MLP initiative in terms of the characteristics of those receiving legal services and resolution of needs, and the impact on those specifically receiving legal services related to housing in terms of their health, social needs, and use of healthcare services.
The PiER Center created and is implementing the 2023-2024 school-year evaluation of Public Education Business Coalition’s (PEBC) Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools grant program. PEBC provides training and support to new educators striving to improve social emotional learning (SEL) and trauma-informed practices (TIP) and their use in classrooms. The program also has current aim to increase racial diversity through improved recruitment strategies. The PEBC evaluation includes a longitudinal design to examine the success of recruitment strategies and teacher experiences and outcome gains in SEL, TIP, and overall wellbeing. Teachers and staff are surveyed and interviewed as part of the mixed-method approach.