Paul Moberg, UW ICTR Assistant Director

D. Paul Moberg, PhD is an ICTR Assistant Director heading the evaluation and tracking effort. Dr. Moberg is a senior scientist in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Deputy Director of the UW Population Health Institute. He serves on the National CTSA Evaluation Key Function Committee. He has been involved in applied research and evaluation since 1973, when he began working as Evaluation Coordinator for DePaul Rehabilitation Hospital in Milwaukee. Subsequently, he worked in applied research and program evaluation for the State of Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and as an independent consultant.

Dr. Moberg received his MA degree from Marquette University and a PhD in sociology with a minor (funded under an NIMH training grant) in evaluation research from UW-Madison. His work has focused on prevention, intervention and treatment outcomes for behavioral health problems, evaluation research methods, and services research in health and human service organizations.

His work has been funded by the NIH (NIDA, NCI, NIAAA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Robert Wood Johnson foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and numerous other local, state and national organizations. He has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including Evaluation Review, the American Journal of Evaluation, the Journal of the American Public Health Association, the Wisconsin Medical Journal and the Journal of Primary Prevention. His extensive experience in designing and conducting useful, responsive and collaborative program evaluations within a publicly-funded context uniquely suit him to direct the evaluation effort for the UW ICTR.