Stephen Smith

Steve has over 30 years of experience in survey design and implementation, collection of biomeasure data, administrative data, and health services research.

Steve serves as senior vice president of the Health Sciences department at NORC. In addition to leading the department, Steve serves as principal investigator, project director, or senior advisor on some of the department’s most complex projects. The department has a broad array of projects for clients, such as the National Institutes for Health (NIH), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), states, associations, and foundations.

Steve currently serves as NORC’s corporate oversight and data collection expert for the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), that is using innovative methods for the collection of biomeasures using field interviewers and assessing sensitive topics associated with aging. He also serves as the NORC Principal Investigator for data collection on High School and Beyond (HS&B), and a similar role for the National Longitudinal Study for the Class of 1972. He is also the NORC Project Director for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Connect Study.

Prior to joining NORC, Steve spent several years conducting social research as a Senior Social Survey Officer in England's Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), now called the Office of National Statistics (ONS). At ONS he worked on the British Labor Force Survey, Census Validation Study, and a study on Electoral Registration.