Tracy Wharton, PhD, LICSW

Looking for a Consultant? 

Got data that you don't know what to do with? 

I can help! 

Experienced faculty member, social scientist, and program manager with over 20 years of leadership in program development, mixed-methods social research, and program evaluation. Demonstrated expertise in health equity, community-engaged public health, and program management, with extensive experience in portfolio and budget management across the public sector, non-profits, and academia—driving initiatives centered on social justice, equity, and community-based implementation.

Proven ability to engage and support diverse service populations, including early career academic professionals, college-level students, immigrant and migrant communities, foreign service and military families, older adults, and individuals experiencing compassion fatigue, trauma, and caregiving challenges. I am passionate about expanding access, elevating underrepresented voices, and fostering meaningful change through strategic leadership and collaboration.

I can add value to your organization through...

• Qualitative data analysis and storytelling

• Making sense of client stories and cataloguing program data

• Proposal review or editing

• Evaluation planning for meaningful outcomes

• Logic model design and output planning

• Triangulation of data to add meaning to large data sets

• Facilitation of focus groups and key informant interviews

• Community engagement

• Federal reporting or support with peer reviewed publication

• IRB submissions or human subjects protection consultation

• Literature reviews and evidence summaries

What can I do to help your program succeed?

Subject Matter Expertise:

• Curriculum development and standards alignment

• Program evaluation and logic model design

• Ethical research basics and human participant protection

• Interprofessional education of healthcare professionals

• Policy advocacy and policy analysis

• Compassion fatigue and burnout

• Dementia and family caregiving

• Aging and well-being

• Mental health in adults

• Cultural humility and bias

• Trauma-informed services

• Immigrant and migrant mental health and healthcare access

• Military family, foreign service, or international development family wellbeing

• Equine assisted psychotherapy

• Advancing Health Equity