Emily is a qualitative socio-behavioral and end-user researcher serving as a Scientist II within FHI 360's Evidence and Research for Action division in the Global Programs and Science unit.  She brings to these roles over 20 years’ experience designing, implementing, and disseminating qualitative and mixed methods research in clinical and applied settings. Emily started her career in consumer and corporate anthropology with brief projects at Nike and Intel and retains an interest in applying human-centered design approaches to the development and delivery of products and services.  Her recent product development and end-user research experience spans target product profiles, user acceptability,  market readiness, and packaging preferences. She has conducted socio-behavioral work across fields of health and development, both internationally and domestically, with research on topics related to infectious disease (HIV, malaria, polio, TB), maternal and reproductive health, bioethics, economic strengthening, education, and child protection. Emily brings particular expertise in qualitative data collection and analysis, having conducted over 300 interviews, 100 focus groups, numerous participatory/workshop sessions, and analysis of thousands of transcripts for client reports, direct product developer input, and peer-reviewed publications. She also enjoys roles as mentor and teacher, demonstrated through design and implementation of capacity bridging workshops in more than a dozen countries and co-authorship of several methods textbooks.

Emily has a Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology, with emphasis in public health and medical anthropology, from Northern Arizona University.