Dr. Tamar Klaiman

Biography

Tamar Klaiman is an experienced public health research evaluation leader and administrator with over 10 years of experience in designing, implementing, and disseminating mixed methods qualitative public health research studies. Her research spans various areas within public health and health service research, consistently serving as a qualitative methodologist to support inquiries in behavioral economics, end-of-life care, serious illness, implementation science, and health equity. Tamar has contributed to multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals. After spending time in the non-profit sector leading an internal evaluation research team for a public health agency, she returned to academia where she now oversees qualitative research across diverse health-related topics. Currently, Tamar holds the position of Director of Qualitative Methods at the Palliative Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE). In this role, she serves as the qualitative lead for projects such as the ‘Behavioral Economics Transform Trial Enrollment Representativeness (BETTER) Center,’ which develops and tests behavioral economic interventions to overcome barriers to RCT participation faced by racial and ethnic minority patients, women, and rural populations at risk for cardiovascular disease. Moreover, she has collaborated on projects using implementation science methods to address communication failures leading to diagnostic errors and their impact on racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity. Tamar also mentors Master's and Doctoral students in public health with a focus on guiding their use of qualitative methods in research.

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