Team Members

Harris Allen, PhD
Founder and Principal
Harris Allen Group, LLC

After more than 15 years in corporate and consulting positions, Dr. Allen formed his own consultancy (in 1997) in conjunction with a disciplinary team of colleagues to provide consulting on health and productivity measurement and management and on health care strategy development.

Dr. Allen’s work history in performance consulting, research and evaluation have spanned posts in the non-profit and private sectors. He has served The Rand Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, The Health Institute at New England Medical Center, and Coopers & Lybrand, LLP.

He has directed numerous projects involving the development, implementation, analysis and reporting of surveys and integrated databases for a broad range of clients, including employers, employer coalitions, health plans, health plan associations, pharmaceutical and specialty firms and state agencies.

Dr. Allen’s specialty is working with tools that scientifically measure human responses for assessing productivity, safety, disease management, quality of care, health care outcomes and patient satisfaction, workers compensation and disability, group health, pharmaceutical use, managed care and return on investment.

He has published and presented widely on numerous topics in health care, health and productivity. He is currently a lecturer and research collaborator at Yale University as well as a senior scholar at Jefferson Medical Colleage, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. Click here for a one-page bio statement. Click here for his resume.

Statistical / Research Methods

William Rogers, PhD
Senior Scientist
The Health Institute, Tufts-New England Medical Center
and
Principal
Quality Data Management, Inc.

Dr. Rogers is widely recognized as a leading statistician in health services research.  He serves as a senior scientist at New England Medical Center and is a principal at a leading data collection firm, Quality Data Management.  He also advises a variety of clients in business, academia, and government on development of analytic tools and their application to health issues.

He joined The Health Institute at Tufts-NEMC in 1993 to provide statistical and research design expertise, and has performed in this capacity on numerous major projects, including the Medicare HMO Study and a variety of studies focusing on the health impact of depression and pain..  Before that, Dr. Rogers was a 20-year veteran of The RAND Corporation, where he led design and analysis efforts on major research projects, including the Health Insurance Experiment, the Medical Outcomes Study, and the DRG/Prospective Payment Study. 

Dr. Rogers has worked with Dr. Allen on many projects over the years, including the Employee Health Care Value Survey for the Xerox, GTE and Digital Equipment Corporations, and several BCBS plan projects. Click here to see his resume.

Economics/Public Health

Mark Schlesinger, PhD,
Professor, Health Economics
Yale School of Epidemiology & Public Health

Dr. Schlesinger’s research includes studies of the growth of for-profit enterprises in health and mental health care, investigations of the scope and consequences of various forms of managed care and utilization management, and analyses of public attitudes towards health care reform.  He also works on government contracting for services from private agencies and the comparative performance of private nonprofit, for-profit and public agencies.   

His most recent work focuses on how individuals make sense of their health care experiences, respond to problematic events, and make choices with limited information. This work has been applied to decisions about health plans, health care providers, and health policy options.

Drs. Schlesinger has teamed up with Dr. Allen to examine how individuals with physical illness, mental illness, and other potentially vulnerable groups fare under different forms of managed care.  Click here to see his resume.

Database Development /Analysis

Hong Chang, PhD
Research Scientist Center
The Health Institute at Tufts-New England Medical Center
and
Assistant Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine

Dr. Chang previously was a consultant at Coopers & Lybrand before joining The Health Institute doing research. His skills include statistics, advanced analysis, sampling, and database construction.  Dr. Chang worked with Dr. Allen on several Blue Cross Blue Shield survey projects and the Consumer Health Plan Value Survey.

Data Collection

Circum Network, Inc.

(www.circum.com)

Circum Network is a full-service research supplier specializing in quantitative analysis and high-quality, large-scale data collection. (Hull, Québec , Canada).  Over the past few years, it has developed CallWeb (callweb), a full featured on-line data collection system.  Circum has performed electronic survey data collection for us on two survey projects.

Our chief contact:  Benoît Gauthier, Founder and President

Datastat, Inc.

(www.datastat.com)

This leading data collectiion firm (Ann Arbor MI) specializes in survey and sample design, data collection, and analysis and complex reporting, with state-of-the-art capabilities for the collection of data via telephone, mail, web and IVR technologies. Datastat has served as mail and phone data collection vendor on several projects. Our chief contact: Thomas Wilkinson, Executive Vice President.

iiON Corporation

(www.iion.com)

This Application Service Provider (San Diego, CA) offers a suite of Internet data collection and customized services.   iiON works with organizations to discover more about their clients, employees, members, or target markets through online surveyresearch. It has collected data for us on several projects, including the nternational Allergy Project.

Our chief contact:  Roy DiBenerdini, President