Why Research? “I’m always looking for new trends and ways to explain them — and research gives me evidence to justify those theories.”

TRISH SCHROEDER, MPH
Research Analyst

As a member of the LCWA Research Group team, Trish coordinates project logistics, prepares charts and tables and summarizes data that communicates research results to clients.

Job Highlights

• Working on the multitude of details that help make a research project successful
• Making sure that every number that leaves our office is accurate

Before LCWA
Trish worked for two years as a graduate research assistant at a prominent university, where she developed and implemented research to shape and evaluate health education and promotion programs. As a public health intern at a county health department, she helped develop data collection tools and analyze and report quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate a health-promotion program targeting underserved women in the surrounding community.

Involvement
Trish is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Before joining LCWA, she was instrumental in establishing the inaugural chapter of her graduate program’s Public Health Student Association and also served as a representative for the Graduate Student Association. As an undergraduate she was active in PRSSA and Honors Club.

Education
Trish is from Darien, Ill. She received her bachelor of science degree from Eastern Illinois University, and a master of public health degree, with a research emphasis in health communications, from the University of Memphis.

Fun Fact
Trish played Division One volleyball in college and once had a vertical jump of 33 inches.