Claire Wilson

Claire Wilson, a highly accomplished project leader and researcher, brings more than 15 years of experience in program evaluation and mixed-methods research design. An experienced project director with expertise in qualitative and quantitative data collection, Claire has led projects in the areas of health, education, and food and nutrition.

During her 10 years at Insight, she has led projects for multiple federal agencies, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), the Department of Education, and the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Claire manages Insight’s Health Services Research team portfolio with projects spanning the Department of Health and Human Services, including ASPE, AHRQ, HRSA, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She currently leads the Longitudinal Evaluation of the HHS National Action Plan To Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections for AHRQ. This 3-year evaluation includes interviews with federal and external stakeholders of the National Action Plan; an inventory of federally supported health care-associated infection (HAI) prevention programs; and an assessment of adoption rates for HAI prevention practices in acute care settings, ambulatory surgical centers, end-stage renal disease facilities, and long-term care settings.

For FNS, Claire recently completed a qualitative study of zero-income Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants. This study involved in-depth interviews with 50 SNAP participants in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and was designed to examine the circumstances that left these participants with no income and their survival strategies during periods of no income.

Prior to joining Insight, Claire worked as a survey researcher for Mathematica Policy Research. She earned her Ph.D. in applied social psychology from George Washington University.