Program Management Team
- Chris Bartlett, PhD
- Derrick Demmons, MPH
- Silvana Lawvere, PhD
- Melanie Livet, PhD
- Charles Williams, MPH, MA
Chris Bartlett, PhD
Program Manager, Environmental Health
Dr. Bartlett is a toxicologist with several years of experience conducting risk assessments since receiving his PhD in Toxicology. At Scimetrika, Dr. Bartlett manages several projects and is an author on Provisional Toxicity Value and IRIS documents for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Before joining SciMetrika, Dr. Bartlett was a Senior Toxicologist at Avon Products, Inc., where he was the lead toxicologist on numerous human health and environmental issues. Dr. Bartlett has experience designing and implementing safety assessment strategies for raw ingredients and finished formulations, preparing and defending weight of evidence risk assessments, preparing safety dossiers for product registration, and managing the safety and efficacy of insect repellent products. When managing the safety and efficacy of insect repellents, he has worked with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to submit registration documents and has attended meetings at EPA to support registrations. His experience at Avon not only made Dr. Bartlett proficient in conducting dose-response risk assessments but working on risk assessments of novel materials provided him with experience in identifying data gaps and addressing them through collecting data. Dr. Bartlett has also worked as a Scientific Affairs Manager for VIRxSYS Corp. preparing clinical trial documents, grants, regulatory submissions to the FDA, conference presentations, scientific publications, press releases, website copy and white papers. This work has made Dr. Bartlett comfortable reviewing and analyzing scientific literature and data and communicating the results through a variety of media.
Derrick Demmons, MPH
Program Manager, Management Consulting
Mr. Demmons has more than five years of public health experience and four years of managing and providing technical leadership. His expertise is in epidemiologic methods, infectious diseases, survey methodologies, data analysis, and community based-participatory research assessments. Prior to joining SciMetrika, Mr. Demmons served as the Manager of Research Projects at Emory University Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies. During his tenure, Mr. Demmons worked on initiatives to enhance public health programs for transfusion services by partnering with the Minority Recruitment Board of the American Red Cross, African American Community Church Leaders, and Historical Black Colleges and Universities to evaluate and increase blood donation and blood products by implementing survey methodological techniques.
As the Corrections Project Assistant for the Louisiana Office of Public Health HIV/AIDS Program, Mr. Demmons was responsible for forming collaborations with the Department of Safety and Justice to conduct epidemiological studies to reduce the spread of communicable diseases inside correctional facilities. Working with local, state and territorial public health officials, Mr. Demmons developed protocols and guidelines that were used in reducing the spread of infectious and communicable diseases inside correctional facilities. Mr. Demmons has co-authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics that include health disparities, blood donation consent, and behavioral epidemiology. He received his Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Fisk University. He is a member of the American Public Health Association and the American Association of Blood Banks.
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.
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.
Charles Williams, MPH, MA
Program Manager, Health Communications
Mr. Williams has more than 10 years of public health experience with expertise in health communication and social marketing. He currently serves as the Program Manager for SciMetrika's Health Communication team. Mr. Williams is also serving as a Project Mangers for a CDC project with the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). For this project he is leading the development of intervention and health education materials for working with children affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs). He is also serving as the Outreach task manager for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare Contractor Provider Satisfaction Survey (MCPSS). Mr. Williams also has experience conducting communication and public health research using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Another area of expertise includes community based research with minority populations in addressing health disparities. Mr. Williams holds an MPH with a concentration in Health Education and Behavioral Science from Saint Louis University. He also earned an MA in Communication with a concentration in Health Communication and BA in Communication with Public Relations concentration from the University of Kentucky.