Laura C. Leviton

Dr. Leviton joined RWJF in 1999, she has overseen evaluations in most of RWJF’s areas of focus and continues that role today on the Foundation initiatives in preventing childhood obesity.
Previously, Dr. Leviton was a professor of public health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health.
During this time, she collaborated on the earliest randomized experiment on effective ways to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in gay and bisexual men.
She is a leading writer on evaluation methods and practice, in particular for disease prevention, and has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals, numerous book chapters, and several books.
She was president of the American Evaluation Association in 2000.
Dr. Leviton received a PhD in social psychology from the University of Kansas and postdoctoral training in evaluation research from Northwestern University.
She earned a BA in psychology from Reed College.