Emma Carpenter, PhD, MSW
Position title: Director of Research and Evaluation, Power to Decide

Dr. Carpenter was a member of the CORE Lab from 2018 to 2020 while earning her PhD from the UW School of Social Work. She also served as Project Director of the Patient and Provider Experiences with Medication Abortion in Wisconsin study. Currently she is Director of Research and Evaluation at Power to Decide. Previously, she served as a Health Science Policy Analyst at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), where she led several NIH and HHS-wide initiatives. Dr. Carpenter also completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) at the University of Texas at Austin.