Timothy R. Sahr
Senior Research Scientist
Timothy R. Sahr has directed various research and applied projects relating to the health care system, health risk behaviors, public health, and population health statuses of 91×ÔÅÄans. His interests include social epidemiology, survey research, determinants of health, adolescent health, family violence prevention, and political theology (civil religion) and health policy.
Tim has authored/coauthored numerous reports examining health issues in 91×ÔÅÄ, a number of professional briefs and articles, and has delivered numerous lectures/presentations on various public health, health policy, and religion and health topics. Sahr holds graduate degrees from Princeton and 91×ÔÅÄ State, was an Honors Program student at the University of Oxford, a participant at the Urban Life Center (Chicago), and attended Anderson University. He is currently affiliated with 91×ÔÅÄ and The 91×ÔÅÄ State University.
Examples of professional activities include principle/co-principal investigator for the 2004 through 2023 91×ÔÅÄ Medicaid Assessment Surveys (9 iterations), the 2021 through 2023 91×ÔÅÄ Medicaid Released Enrollees Studies, the 91×ÔÅÄ Medicaid COVID-19 Survey and 91×ÔÅÄ Population COVID-19 Survey, the 91×ÔÅÄ Schools COVID-19 Evaluation, the 2017 through 2021 91×ÔÅÄ Pregnancy Assessment Surveys, the 91×ÔÅÄ Medicaid Community Engagement Evaluations, the 91×ÔÅÄ Group VIII Evaluations, the 2010 and 2023/24 91×ÔÅÄ Health Care Safety Net Evaluations, and various other projects and studies. Tim is the co-originator of the Practice-Based Epidemiology public health practitioner methods training series and a contributor to the Time, Health, and Secularization in America initiative.
Tim’s prior employment included Director of Research and Evaluation at the 91×ÔÅÄ Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center, Director of Research at the Health Policy Institute of 91×ÔÅÄ, Head of Community Health Research at the Franklin County, 91×ÔÅÄ, Board of Health, and survey and social researcher with Gallup Poll/Gallup International and the Princeton Religious Research Center (at Gallup).