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Currently, she is playing a lead role in a statewide evaluation of supplemental education services for the Michigan Department of Education.

Dr. McCrohan also serves as the analysis and reporting task leader on an evaluation of the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) Initiative, a project for the U.S. Department of Labor in which PPA is partnering with the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.  Her responsibilities include oversight of data analysis and reporting, scheduling deliverables, ensuring integrity, monitoring availability and completeness of all data sources, and driving analyses implementation. 

Prior to joining PPA, Dr. McCrohan was an evaluation consultant for the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI).  Her evaluation duties included consultation, development, and management for several research and evaluation projects for the cancer prevention and control section, including development of a pilot study of cancer clinical trial enrollment in Michigan.  She was responsible for the initial generation of systems at the MPHI, including the Quality Assurance Office and Institutional Review Board (IRB).  In this capacity, she developed and implemented policies and procedures to protect both human research subjects and institutional data integrity.  Prior to that, Dr. McCrohan was responsible for the development of the Survey Research Unit at the MPHI.

She has presented her research at such conventions as the IRB Conference on Ethical Dilemmas in Human Subject Research and the Michigan Cancer Consortium Annual Meeting.  She is the author of numerous technical reports, and her works have been published in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal and the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.  She is a member of both the Michigan Association for Evaluation and the American Evaluation Association, and past chair of the MPHI IRB.  She was appointed to the Research Privacy Board at Michigan State University in 2005.