Noah Hammes

Noah Hammes joined the CRD team in 2022. He has experience in a range of focus areas including, communications and design, quality improvement and assurance, health policy and public health research and program development.

Prior to joining the CRD team, Noah spent time in multiple roles within the health policy, public health research, and healthcare communications spaces. Noah was a policy associate at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s D.C. office, where he assisted in the development of informational resources around the National Suicide Prevention three-digit lifeline and helped with a variety of advocacy efforts within the suicide prevention space. Following this, Noah worked with the LAM Foundation, a rare disease-focused nonprofit, where he helped develop and implement a communications and social media plan for several of the organization’s webinars and their annual fundraiser. While in graduate school, Noah worked as a Communications and Development Associate with the US Alcohol Policy Alliance (USAPA), where he developed a comprehensive communications plan and social media schedule for their annual gala. Concurrently, Noah worked with one of USAPA’s member organizations, Recover Alaska, as a Public Health Associate, where he assisted in the development and implementation of a statewide poll on alcohol misuse perceptions, and helped create a program focused on research equity and data justice that sought to provide technical assistance to community-based community-led organizations seeking to demonstrate the impact of their work in the alcohol misuse recovery space.

Most recently, Noah worked for a behavioral health consulting firm with expertise in behavioral health research evaluation and technical assistance. While there, Noah was the primary qualitative analyst for two SAMSHA grant contracted projects, and helped collect and track GPRA and NOMs interview data for a variety of other programs. Noah also worked directly within the SAMSHA Performance Accountability and Reporting System (SPARS) where he helped manage data for a multitude of SAMSHA grants. Noah worked with the organization’s California team on Mobile Crisis Unit policies and programming, where he developed materials focused on Mobile Crisis Unit funding mechanisms through enhanced FMAP matching under ARPA, and helped review and score grant applications for Community Crisis Mobile Units across the state of CA.

Along with his other previous experience, Noah was also a policy fellow at CRD Associates in 2019, where he worked with a variety of organizations, including patient advocacy groups, and healthcare-focused nonprofits. Noah graduated from the University of Rochester in 2020 with a B.A. in Health Behavior, and will complete his master’s in public health at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health in May of 2022.