Timothy R. Sahr directs various research and applied projects relating to the health care system, health risk behaviors, public health, and the health status of Ohioans. His interests include social epidemiology, survey research, determinants of health, adolescent health, family violence prevention, and health policy.
Tim has authored/coauthored numerous reports examining health issues in Ohio, professional briefs and articles, and has delivered hundreds of lectures/presentations in public health, health policy, and religion and health topics. Sahr holds graduate degrees from Princeton and Ohio State, an undergraduate degree from Anderson University, and was an Honors Program student at the University of Oxford.
Currently, Tim is the principal/co-principal investigator for the Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey, the Ohio Medicaid Released Enrollees Evaluation, the Ohio COVID-19 Survey, the Ohio Schools COVID-19 Evaluation, the Ohio Medicaid Community Engagement Evaluation, the Ohio Medicaid Next Generation of Managed Care Evaluation, the Ohio Medicaid Direct Homecare Worker’s Evaluation, and the Resumption of Ohio Medicaid Eligibility Operations Evaluation, among various other projects and studies. Tim is the co-originator of the Practice-Based Epidemiology public health practitioner methods training series and a contributor to the initiative Time, Health, and Secularization in America.
Tim’s prior employment included Director of Research at the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, Head of Research at the Franklin County, Ohio, Board of Health, and survey and social researcher with Gallup Poll/Gallup International.