Liz Sweitzer
She/Her
Senior Evaluation Specialist
Liz Sweitzer is a Senior Evaluation Specialist with The Evaluation Center. Trained as a medical anthropologist, Liz has extensive experience working with community-driven health initiatives adapting research and evaluation to be relevant and salient in different contexts. She is the lead evaluator the Veteran Suicide Prevention Pilot Program funded by the Behavioral Health Administration, where she works with multiple clinical and community partners to evaluate the efforts to rapidly connect veterans to critical mental health supports. She also evaluates the Community Engagement programs under the NIH- funded Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, including their community-based participatory research grant program. She formerly led the evaluation of the Peer Recovery Coach program under the State Opioid Response grant funded by SAMHSA. Liz has worked in or collaborated with partners in the Middle East, North Africa, Western Asia, and the U.S. Her passion lies in using qualitative methods to amplify the stories of program participants and community members.
Liz holds a Master of Arts in Medical Anthropology from the University of Colorado Denver and a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Asheville North Carolina. Her previous research includes cultural impacts on biomedical acceptability amongst women, impacts of geopolitical anxieties on performance mediums, and decision-making practices and governing structures within intentional communities.