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Westat
Rockville, MD
www.westat.com
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Westat is an employee-owned research corporation serving agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments. Westat's research, technical, and administrative staff of more than 1,700 is located at our headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, near Washington, DC. Westat also maintains research offices near our clients in Bethesda, Maryland; Los Altos, California; Raleigh, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; and Houston, Texas.
Westat has developed skills and experience in custom research and program evaluation studies across a broad range of subject areas. Westat also has the technical expertise in statistics, survey and analytical methods, computer systems technology, biomedical science, and clinical trials to sustain a leadership position in all our research endeavors.
An important part of Westat's success and growth stems from its broadly distributed form of employee ownership; employees realize that their efforts and commitment can make a difference in the value of their company.
For more than 40 years, Westat has conducted or supported health research for public and private sector clients. These projects use surveys, in person interviewing, record abstracting, physical examination, nutrition assessments and other methods for descriptive studies. Experimental studies include trials of therapeutic agents and diagnostic tests as well as clinical and community disease prevention studies. Westat's involvement ranges from short term support to long range planning and design for multi-year, multi-center projects. Studies are performed by interdisciplinary project teams representing a broad range of disciplines, including the following:
• Behavioral scientists
• Biostatisticians
• Clinical trials specialists
• Computer systems professionals
• Data management specialists
• Epidemiologists
• Health services researchers
• Nutritionists
• Research nurses
• Survey research specialists
Study areas of interest to the public health community include epidemiological studies of chronic and infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, patient safety, health communication, cancer screening, and nutrition.
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Roberta Carow
robertacarow@westat.com
Health Studies Recruit. Coord.
1500 Research Blvd.
TB321
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: (301) 738-8318
Fax: (301) 294-2092
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