Program Management Team
Derrick Demmons, MPH
Program Manager (acting), Management Consulting
Bio coming soon!
Melanie Livet, PhD
Program Manager, Health Behavior, Education & Program Evaluation
Dr. Livet has more than eight years of experience as a project manager and public health consultant. Her expertise is in program evaluation, research methodologies, social science data analysis, and organizational development. She is an expert in participatory and empowerment evaluation paradigms. Prior to joining SciMetrika, Dr. Livet served as assistant director, senior evaluation scientist, and evaluation consultant to a number of public health and social agencies, including the Center for Public Health Preparedness, University of South Carolina.
Dr. Livet has authored and co-authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics that include program evaluation and interpersonal violence. She received her PhD in clinical-community psychology from the University of South Carolina.
Silvana Lawvere, PhD
Program Manager, Statistics & Epidemiology
Dr. Lawvere de Moreno has twelve years of experience conducting research and instructing courses in the areas of Epidemiology, integrative medicine and cancer prevention. She has served as a member of the Targets working group and Projection Modeling working group at the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control.
Previously, Dr. Lawvere de Moreno was a senior research leader for the Prevention department of the Alberta Cancer Board in Calgary, Canada. She is also an adjunct member of the faculty of medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary. She has authored or co-authored more than 15 publications on such topics as knowledge, practice, and attitudes about smoking cessation and approaches to breast cancer screening among nurse practitioners, post Chernobyl Thyroid Cancer rates and smoking interventions among New York State Medicaid participants.
Dr. Lawvere de Moreno received her doctorate in epidemiology and community health from the State University of New York at Buffalo and was an American Cancer Society post-doctoral fellow at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, also in Buffalo, NY. She is a member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and has been an advocate in the Cancer Action Network of the American Cancer Society.
Charles Williams, MPH, MA
Program Manager, Health Communications
Bio coming soon!