Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion

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Keri L. Rodriguez, PhD is a CHERP Core Investigator, Research Health Scientist and Co-Director of CHERP's Qualitative Methods Core (QualCore). Dr. Rodriguez has a background in medical sociology, postdoctoral training in health services research, and is a past recipient of a VA HSR Merit Review Entry Program award. She is a health services researcher with expertise and experience in qualitative and mixed methods projects. She has used qualitative methodology to explore the quality and equity of health and healthcare for vulnerable populations.

Her independent and collaborative research spans a broad range of content areas and topics. In her role as a qualitative methodologist, she has collaborated on research studies and quality improvement projects with various colleagues and teams of collaborators from multiple disciplines at VAPHS (e.g., MIRECC, HERL, VERC, CHERP), Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC) in Philadelphia, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Durham VA Health Care System, and our academic affiliates. She has used a variety of qualitative and mixed methods data collection and analysis methods to explore topics with numerous shareholders, including Veteran and civilian patients and their family members, healthcare providers, and hospital administrators. Qualitative methodologies across these projects included coding and rapid analysis of interviews (e.g., participant-generated photographs with photo-elicitation interviews), focus groups, audio-recorded clinic visits, observational data (e.g., fieldnotes), textual data (e.g., open-ended survey responses), as well as projects using multi- and mixed-methodology.