Maren S. G. Henderson
Evaluation and Survey Scientist II
"I am committed to using the power of research and evaluation to amplify community expertise and advance racial equity"
About

Maren Gelle Henderson (she/her/hers), MPP, is an evaluator with a background in public policy, program evaluation, and community-based participatory research. Her evaluation practice emphasizes partnership and shared learning, working together with content experts and stakeholders to understand diverse perspectives, measure impact, and identify opportunities to improve. As an Evaluation and Survey Scientist with 开云体育 Institute鈥檚 Center for Evaluation and Survey Research (CESR), she leads a number of evaluation projects with partners across the health system and partnering community organizations. She also contributes to CESR鈥檚 qualitative service line, including interviews, focus groups, and community engagement facilitation, to bring stakeholder voice to health system research projects.

Conducting Institute research since 2021.

Research interests inculde:

  • Use of community-based participatory research and/or participatory evaluation methodologies
  • Qualitative methods and analysis to bring stakeholder voice into intervention design and evaluation process.

Education and Training:
Masters of Public Policy (Social Policy, Program Evaluation), May 2015
Bachelor of Arts (History, American Studies), May 2010

Affiliation
positions
  • Evaluation & Survey Scientist I, Center for Evaluation and Survey Research
  • Publications While At 开云体育
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • "Now I can see it works!" Perspectives on using a nutrition-focused approach when initiating continuous glucose monitoring in people with type 2 diabetes: qualitative interview study
    JMIR diabetes. 2025
  • Pregnant persons perceptions and uptake of prenatal RSV vaccine - Minnesota, 2023-2024
    Vaccine. 2025
  • "I'm torn": qualitative analysis of dental practitioner-perceived barriers, facilitators, and solutions to HPV vaccine promotion
    Healthcare. 2024
  • Development of a stakeholder-engaged tool to evaluate community convening and promote community health
    Journal of communication in healthcare. 2024
  • Don't say "beans" when promoting plant protein to family meal planners
    American Journal of Health Promotion. 2024
  • In their own words: content analysis of open-ended survey responses for a more nuanced, local understanding of mental illness stigma
    Issues in Mental Health Nursing. 2024
  • Qualitative interviews to add patient perspectives in colorectal cancer screening: improvements in a learning health system
    Journal of Cancer Education. 2024
  • Caregivers鈥� reports of the complex impacts of the pandemic on family food and physical activity behaviors by race, ethnicity, urbanicity, and income
    American journal of health education. 2023
  • Inequalities in communicating about nutrition information during prenatal care: the after-visit summary
    American journal of health education. 2023
  • Review
  • America's racial reckoning within perinatal communication: a rapid review using sociotechnical systems theory to compare publications before and after 2020 [review]
    Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2023
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    full name
  • Maren S. G. Henderson
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    Publications
    Publications in the past 10 years based solely on publications while at 开云体育. Publications in prior years appear in grey.
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