Samuels & Associates
1222 Preservation Park Way
Oakland
CAUSA
94612
Biographical Sketch: Lisa Craypo, MPH, RD, Senior Associate. Samuels & Associates
Ms. Craypo has a broad range of experience in public health programming, research, and program evaluation. Her expertise encompasses children's health, food and nutrition, and health communications. At Samuels & Associates, Ms. Craypo is responsible for conceptualizing research and evaluation study designs, strategic planning and logic modeling, and managing all phases of research projects from development of data collection instruments through data collection, analysis, and reporting of project results. She is also responsible for training and technical assistance, media tracking, qualitative research including focus groups and stakeholder surveys, and dissemination of project and evaluation results through reports, policy briefs, and presentations to a wide variety of professional audiences. Most recently, Ms. Craypo has played a lead role in the California Endowment Healthy Eating Active Communities Evaluation, the California Project LEAN assessment of Marketing and Advertising in Public High Schools, the NIH-funded study of the Impact of Removing Sweetened Beverages from High School Campuses, and a series of case studies of food environments in public middle and high schools in California. Ms. Craypo is a registered dietitian and holds an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley.