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NORC at the University Chicago

Sabrina Avripas

Pronouns: She/Her

Senior Research Director
Public Health
Sabrina has expertise in studies focused on the health of racial, ethnic, gender, and minority populations through a trauma-informed lens.

Sabrina is a senior research director in NORC’s Public Health department. She has over 20 years of experience leading, managing, and designing research projects for federal organizations, private foundations, and academic institutions. She brings to her work training in clinical social work and public health research and experience using a variety of methods in an interdisciplinary context.

Specifically, Sabrina provides leadership and multi-mode methodological expertise to studies focused on the health of racial, ethnic, gender, and minority populations through a trauma-informed lens. In addition to project leadership, she is active in all levels of business development ranging from the development of proposals for small private and not for profit organizations to grant administration for large federal institutions.

At NORC, Sabrina leads the organizational wide Sexual & Gender Minority research steering committee. She also spearheads the development of the Community-Engaged Research Framework Toolkit that supports NORC staff in conducting community-engaged research with a diversity, racial equity, and inclusion (DREI) lens.

Project Contributions

Adolescent SBIRT Initiative: Preparing the Health Professional Workforce

Preparing Health Professionals to Screen and Intervene for Youth Substance Use and Mental Health Risk

Client:

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Survey of Today’s Adolescent Relationships and Transitions

Understanding sexual behavior of Black and Latino young men to prevent HIV

Client:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Adolescent and School Health

Developing Tools for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth

Analyzing survey data to inform HIV prevention materials that engage minority adolescents

Client:

Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Indiana University Abortion Attitudes Project

A multi-year study aimed at developing and testing measures to assess abortion attitudes

Client:

Indiana University

A Study of Women’s Health Needs in the U.S.

A major study of women in the U.S. from countries with high rates of female genital mutilation

Client:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Reproductive Health

Emerging Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes for People Aging with HIV

Helping HRSA evaluate strategies to improve the health of older adults with HIV

Client:

Health Resources and Services Administration

Culturally Responsive Vaccination Communication Skills and Techniques

Creating Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve Provider Communication with Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients  

Funder:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Environments Promoting Wellness & Resilience (EmPWR) Evaluation

Exploring the influence of the built environment on mental health and well-being within domestic violence shelters

Funder:

New York City Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity (NYC Opportunity)

Culturally Responsive Vaccination Communication Skills and Techniques

Developing evidence-based interventions to improve provider communication with racial and ethnic minority patients

Funder:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

BLAAC PD Study Recruitment and Engagement Support

Technical assistance for efforts to transform the understanding of Parkinson’s genetics

Funder:

Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)

Publications

Research Library & Findings