Dr. Carri Polick
Senior Consultant, Health Research and Strategy
Carri is a health research and strategy expert with more than 15 years of experience leading and supporting federally funded and multi-site initiatives across healthcare, education, and social systems. Her work spans evaluation, policy, and implementation, with a focus on strengthening systems to improve biopsychosocial outcomes across the lifespan. She has led and managed research and evaluation efforts funded by federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and Department of Defense (DoD), and has collaborated with state Medicaid and education agencies, national organizations, and cross-sector stakeholders.
Carri brings deep expertise in evaluation design, performance measurement, and analytics-informed decision-making, helping organizations translate data into actionable strategies that support continuous improvement and long-term impact. Her cross-cutting approach, spanning behavioral health, physical health, and social determinants, is an asset in complex initiatives requiring integrated, systems-level solutions. She has also led work in clinical research and trial oversight, ensuring regulatory compliance across academic, government, and industry settings.
With a clinical foundation in emergency nursing and advanced training as a nurse scientist through the University of Michigan and the National Clinician Scholars Program at Duke University, Carri brings a unique front-end, implementation-focused perspective that complements DWC's full grant lifecycle support from strategy and proposal development to execution, evaluation, and sustainability. Her work emphasizes building institutional capacity, supporting local leadership, and delivering measurable, lasting impact.
