PHYLLIS G. OTTLEY, PhD

Program Management and Strategic Development

• Provide high-level strategic guidance and direction for programmatic activities in the division; provide conceptual oversight to the development of Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs), publications, and other strategic documents to support the success of the division’s program branch
• Manage federal cooperative agreements and grants focused on violence-related topics, including sexual and intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect and adverse childhood experiences.
• Develop guidance materials and other resources on integrating public health principles into prevention strategies and approaches and support translation and dissemination activities in the division.
• Lead discussions on budgetary considerations and allocation of funding for programmatic initiatives, including developing language for new programmatic funding initiatives.

Implementation and Evaluation Science

• Leads the cross-initiative evaluation unit to assess the effectiveness of programs across multiple domains of violence and examine the potential impact of preventing multiple forms of violence.
• Ensures that the division’s programmatic efforts are supported by scientific evidence; organizes and leads dissemination and translation activities.
• Facilitates a data-to-action and research-to-practice feedback loop between the program and science branches and lead the science and data to action (SD2A) framework development process.
• Facilitates necessary data collection and assessment tool modifications in collaboration with program leadership and staff; recommends recipient data translation improvements to create actionable and impactful program strategies.

Project Lead: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Data to Action (PACE: D2A); Preventing Teen Dating Violence and Youth Violence; Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program

• Served as lead evaluation officer for funding initiatives focused on using program evaluation, surveillance data and implementation of strategies to prevent violence.
• Direct evaluation training and technical assistance activities to funded states
• Produced guidance materials for recipient deliverables (e.g., logic model, evaluation, and implementation plans) and conducted webinars to review and share guidance
• Guided initiative evaluation to determine outcomes and impact of the initiative; developed protocols for systematic data collection of surveillance, evaluation and implementation data.
• Identify and track indicators to assess program outcomes related to the goals and objectives of the initiative.

• Education and Learning Evaluation, Training and Technical Assistance, W.K
• Kellogg Foundation, 2016
• Managed team to provide evaluation training and technical assistance to grantees focused on family engagement to promote positive connections between families and educational programs
• Directed evaluation plan reviews and evaluation needs assessments to assess evaluation capacity of grantees; and develop training plan and guidance documents based on assessments
• Led team to provide broad evaluation training to grantees with various levels of capacity in the form of webinars, on-site trainings, one-to-one consultations, and peer learning
• Presented evaluation portfolio and findings of grantees to the foundation and other stakeholders

• Evaluation of the Second Decade Community Planning Guide, Provided technical direction on the evaluation of the Second Decade Community Planning Guide to assess the usefulness and effectiveness of the Guide on promoting adolescent health and wellbeing
• Led team on selection of pilot sites to implement the Community Planning Guide; site selection criteria included communities working on adolescent issues such as youth violence, teen pregnancy, nutrition, alcohol and substance abuse, healthy relationships, suicide prevention and mental health
• Directed and supervised team on development and administration of a survey to understand how pilot sites, including their coalition and stakeholders are using the Community Guide to promote adolescent health and well-being
• Reviewed analytic approach and dissemination materials for sharing evaluation findings.

• State
• Local, Tribal Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Chronic Diseases and Associated Risk Factors, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Provided technical leadership to a team of about 20 staff for conducting the national evaluation of three CDC programs aimed at chronic disease prevention: State Public Health Actions (1305), State and Local Public Health Actions (1422) and Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country (1421)
• Directed the team to evaluate and provide technical assistance to state-level and tribal programs and synthesize evaluation findings
• The evaluation aims to understand coordination across key partners in categorical areas of heart disease, diabetes, and nutrition to reduce chronic diseases; and includes multi-method approaches such as key informant interviews, focus groups, surveys, case studies, cost tool and document reviews to assess efficiencies and effectiveness of mutually reinforcing strategies
• Guided team on evaluation planning, design, and data collection; developed Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Office of Budget and Management (OMB) applications; conducted analysis of quantitative and qualitative data and developed evaluation materials; disseminate evaluation findings
• Provided fiscal management of the $11 million contract and project activities.

• Managed and supervised team to systematically explore the factors that may be contributing to reported childhood obesity declines in a small sample of municipalities with varied characteristics
• Provided oversight on generating the criteria for site selection, developing an inventory tool to record initiatives and strategies across sites, developing site visit protocols, and collecting and analyzing secondary data to assess contextual factors
• Conducted in-depth assessment of initiatives and strategies implemented across various settings and populations to better understand current and past obesity prevention efforts
• Led the development of reports and other dissemination products for the project, including a manuscript applying the socio-ecological model to understand obesity prevention in children and study findings
• Collaborated with RWJF and members of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) to coordinate activities, to receive guidance from the group, and to inform them of the project’s progress.

• Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH), Community Transformation Grants (, ) Small Communities Evaluation Training and Technical Assistance (CDC)
• Managed the evaluation training and technical assistance of the REACH and CTG Small Communities initiatives
• The focus of these programs is to expand the support to prevent chronic diseases related to obesity and tobacco use and promote health; and implement and evaluate evidence-based strategies that eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities
• Led team to evaluate policy, systems and environmental change strategies that increase physical activity, improve nutrition and decrease tobacco use; conducted case studies, and secondary data analysis, community health needs assessment (CHNA), and provided training and technical assistance around evaluation and manuscript development
• Provided technical support on development of the case study protocols, guidance documents for evaluation and community health needs assessments and dissemination support documents
• Provided fiscal management of contract to ensure project resources were used appropriately and the project was within the budget.

• CPPW) (CDC)
• Directed the monitoring and evaluation of the CPPW initiative and managed all aspects of this project which included monitoring and evaluating policy, systems and environmental (PSE) change strategies aimed at increasing physical activity, improving and providing access to nutritious foods, decreasing obesity prevalence, reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke
• Provided oversight on the delivery and tracking of evaluation technical assistance to communities, the collection and monitoring of performance data, analysis of surveillance data and development of training and dissemination activities; developed a process for tracking and monitoring technical assistance, provided guidance on development of performance monitoring indicators and the development of health indicator briefs produced from analysis of surveillance data (BRFSS and YRBS)
• Managed team to conduct all training and dissemination activities, including developing the training agenda, conducting training events, conducting writing and data analysis workshops for manuscript development, and conceptualizing manuscript ideas and producing manuscripts
• Managed subcontractors and consultants on the project and managed the project budget
• National Evaluation of the Children’s Mental Health Initiative, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

• Essentials for Childhood (CE18-1803) (Completed)
• Served as lead evaluation officer for Essentials for Childhood funding initiative and direct the evaluation training and technical assistance provided to funded states
• Conducted training and technical assistance in the form of webinars, site visits, communities of practice and monthly phone calls with funded states
• Conduct technical reviews to ensure recipient deliverable requirements are met for the grant
• Provided technical direction for the initiative level evaluation for the funding initiative to determine the outcomes and impact of prevention efforts (based on the best available evidence) across funded states
• Conducted various dissemination activities, including developing products to translate data to action and manuscripts to inform the scientific field about the impact of preventing violence in children
• Co, , Preventing Teen Dating Violence and Youth Violence by Addressing Shared Risk and Protective Factors (1605) (Completed)
• Co-directed the evaluation training and technical assistance for funded local health departments implementing strategies to prevent teen dating and youth violence
• Conduct technical reviews
• Provided oversight of initiative level evaluation of 1605 program to assess outcomes related to youth violence prevention and dating violence prevention efforts
• Developed protocols for data collection and reporting
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative data
• Led the collection of cost data to determine costs related to implementing youth prevention programs
• Led the development of evaluation products and guidance materials for funded recipients., Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program Supplement (Completed)
• Served as lead evaluation officer for the RPE supplement to expand existing evaluation capacity and increase monitoring of state-level indicators of sexual violence outcomes for 12 funded states
• Led the evaluation training and technical assistance to help funded recipients expand their outcome program evaluation activities for prevention strategies
• Provided resources for identifying appropriate data sources to track indicators to assess sexual violence outcomes
• Managed CDC contractor to provide additional archive of data for recipients
• Developed reports based on evaluation to inform scale-up activities to expand program evaluation for all RPE funded recipients., Provided project management to core components of the evaluation, design and implement sub-studies within the contract and disseminates evaluation findings
• The evaluation design includes a systems level assessment, child and family longitudinal outcomes study, program assessment and randomized control studies
• These studies included national surveys and instruments to assess children’s behavioral and emotional problems, trauma, school outcomes, caregiver strain, and service experiences
• Conducted analyses using both qualitative and quantitative methods on child and family longitudinal outcomes data and assesses the development of systems and how the needs of children and families in the program are served
• Dissemination activities include peer-reviewed journal articles, policy and evaluation briefs, annual Reports to Congress, and presentations to national and grantee audiences
• Coordinated the submission of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) packages and Institutional Review Board (IRB) applications.