Sheridan Green, PhD, MS
Associate Investigator, PiER Center Director
Sheridan Green, PhD, MS, is an Associate Investigator at the Institute for Health Research, an Assistant Professor with the Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, and the Director of the Partners in Evaluation & Research Center (PiER Center), leading a portfolio of community-focused evaluation research projects. Dr. Green earned a doctorate in Applied Statistics and Research Methods from the University of Northern Colorado and a Master of Science degree in Human Development and Family Studies with a specialization in individual and family programming from Colorado State University. She is an applied researcher and methodologist conducting implementation and outcomes research in community non-profit, healthcare, and government settings. She strives for work with a strong translational emphasis, informing program, policy, and systems improvement.
Dr. Green serves as principal investigator for the PiER Center’s project portfolio. She specializes in collaborative evaluation and research to improve the health of communities, supporting Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s social mission. Dr. Green’s work with community nonprofits involves customized application of evaluation and data capacity building to strengthen organizational readiness, infrastructure, knowledge, and skills needed to engage in and learn from evaluation and research results. Centering equity, community collaboration, and the social health of diverse populations, her areas of focus include food security, medically tailored meals, health harming legal needs, Medical-Legal Partnerships, maternal and child health, pediatric mental health and trauma, and environmental air quality.
Current research includes a perinatal-focused Medical-Legal Partnership study, a participatory youth development and leadership evaluation, and a KPCO clinical-research partnership study to examine clinical screening workflows for social health and trauma among youth experiencing depression and anxiety. She also leads the PiER Center’s collaboration with Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health to provide evaluation services for select grantees funded through KPCO CH’s philanthropic endeavors, supporting CH’s mission to improve community health by addressing health disparities and public health issues in low-income, underserved, and at-risk communities by engaging community in organizational evaluation, learning, and improvement.
Recent local grantee partnerships include evaluation consultative work with the Love My Air program and Hunger Free Colorado’s SNAP Assistance Program. Over the past 4 years, she partnered with Project Angel Heart to evaluate their Supplemental Nutrition Program, provide evaluation capacity building services, and serve on the Research Subcommittee to their Board of Directors. She also led a KPCO Community Health Thriving Schools evaluation partnering with the Public Education Business Coalition (PEBC) to explore the effectiveness of their educator professional development/coaching/mentoring intervention (focused on trauma-informed care) in 4 regions (81 schools) across Colorado.
She also served as the principal investigator for several large, multi-site national Kaiser Permanente initiatives collaborating with diverse partner groups. These included two KP Housing for Health Initiatives examining the impact of housing supports on health care utilization and outcomes, (Project HOME (engaging community sites across 3 KP regions), and a Medical-Legal Partnership Evaluation (partnering with community-based legal intervention partners in five KP regions). She also conducted a national KP evaluation of social health screening reach across all 8 KP regions.
Selected Research:
- Youth Development and Leadership Program Evaluation – Shooting Stars Cultural and Leadership Center
- Funder: Shooting Stars Cultural and Leadership Center
- Award End Date: 02/28/2027
- Perinatal Medical-Legal Partnership Study
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
- Award End Date: 12/31/2027
- Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLP) Evaluation
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente National Community and Social Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2025
- Evaluation of Project HOME: Impact of Rapid Re-Housing Intervention on Housing Status
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente National Community and Social Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2024
- 2026 Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health Grantee Evaluation and Capacity Building Projects
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2026
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2026
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2026
- 2025 Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health Grantee Evaluation and Capacity Building Projects
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2025
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2025
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2025
- 2024 Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health Grantee Evaluation and Capacity Building Projects
- Funder: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Community Health
- Award End Date: 12/31/2024
Using a community-based participatory evaluation approach, the PiER Center is engaged with Shooting Stars staff and youth to co-design and carry out a qualitative evaluation of a culturally rooted, healing-centered youth development program designed to strengthen participants’ cultural identity, character, leadership, and relationships with family and community.
The research examines patterns of health care utilization and legal intervention among Kaiser Permanente Colorado perinatal patients. A mixed method design will incorporate secondary data from the National KP MLP Evaluation with new primary EHR and qualitative interview data to understand the impact and timing of health harming legal needs with respect to perinatal care.
The National KP MLP Evaluation was a cross-site evaluation intended to test a model within Kaiser Permanente’s clinical care and health plan to understand the initiative’s operational viability, shared value, and health care utilization outcomes. The study examined the reach characteristics of those receiving legal services and the resolution of social and legal needs. The study examined the impact of legal intervention on housing, health, social needs, and use of healthcare services.
Project HOME was an initiative out of Kaiser Permanente National Community Health. The goal was to rapidly house a targeted segment of Kaiser Permanente’s unhoused member population through an innovative housing model. HOME was implemented in northern and southern California and the Portland, Oregon area. Dr. Green and team led the evaluation of the initiative. The aims of this project included a process evaluation to understand the operational viability of the Project HOME initiative (e.g., appropriate and effective workflows established in each region) as well as an outcome (e.g., members housed, members satisfied, appropriate utilization of health system) and impact evaluation (e.g., members improve social, mental, physical health and improvements in cost outcomes).
Love My Air Program– Denver Department of Public Health and Environment
Love My Air Program– Adams County Public Health and Environment
Love My Air Program – Jefferson County Public Health
Love My Air Program– Denver Department of Public Health and Environment
Love My Air Program– Adams County Public Health and Environment
SNAP Assistance Program - Hunger Free Colorado
Thriving Schools: An Evaluation of Public Education Business Coalition’s Teacher Residency Program: The PiER Center implemented a 2023-2024 school-year mixed method evaluation of Public Education Business Coalition’s (PEBC) Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools grant program. PEBC provides training and support to new educators striving to improve social emotional learning (SEL) and trauma-informed practices (TIP) and their use in classrooms. The program aimed to broaden teacher inclusion through improved recruitment strategies. The PEBC evaluation utilized a longitudinal design to examine the success of recruitment strategies and teacher experiences and outcome gains in SEL, TIP, and overall wellbeing.