Lauren Grattan

Lauren Grattan’s work connects psychology, behavioral economics, and health behavior. She designs and conducts qualitative and quantitative studies, triangulating data from multiple sources and providing mixed-methods evaluations.

Dr. Grattan's current projects include the Florida Community Evaluation, a large, comprehensive evaluation of the Florida Tobacco Prevention and Control Program. The project involves developing evaluation plans and protocols and performing policy landscape analysis. The team also designs and implements evaluations of Florida's youth tobacco control program, smoke-free multi-unit housing program, and school-based interventions, in addition to monitoring and evaluating state grantee performance.

From 2021 to 2023, Dr. Grattan served as senior advisor on Implementation Research to Increase Access to Fruits and Vegetables for People with Diabetes in Low-Income and Underserved Areas. This project promoted access to fresh fruits and vegetables using food pantries, meal delivery programs, pharmacies (or "farmacies"), produce or food prescriptions, and mobile farmers. Funded by the CDC, it was conducted in partnership with diabetes self-management education and support services recognized by the American Diabetes Association and the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists.

Dr. Grattan joined RTI in 2016 after a postdoctoral fellowship with the U.S. Army, where she specialized in communicating research outcomes to lay audiences and designing studies to accommodate shifting priorities and constraints. Among her notable publications are Community program activities predict local tobacco policy adoption in Florida counties, in the American Journal of Health Promotion, and Restricting retail hours of alcohol sales within an army community, in Military Medicine.