{"id":2345,"date":"2022-01-21T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T22:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/abacus\/?post_type=directory&p=2345"},"modified":"2023-10-17T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:14:56","slug":"tara-carr","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/abacus\/directory\/tara-carr\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tara Carr is a Research Program Manager at Abacus Evaluation. She provides evaluation management for Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics – Underserved Populations (RADx-UP)<\/a>, NIH HEAL Initiative\u00ae| Heal Connections<\/a>, and the Clinical Scholars national leadership program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She earned her MPH and PhD degrees in Nutrition from the Gillings School of Global Public Health, ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel Hill, with an emphasis in nutrition intervention and policy. Prior to joining Abacus, she was a Graduate Research Assistant with the Children\u2019s Healthy Weight Research Group at the ºÚÁÏÍø Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, working on evaluation for federally-funded, multi-level intervention studies in the early care and education setting. As an Early Care and Education Research Scholar, supported by the Office of Planning, Evaluation, & Research (OPRE), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), her doctoral research used mixed-methods to better understand predictors of child care teachers\u2019 feeding styles, which have been implicated in the development of childhood obesity. While a doctoral student, she was also a member of the Evaluation Team for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded 100 Million Healthier Lives Campaign \u2013 Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) 2.0 initiative.<\/p>\n

Her research interests include community-based participatory research and evaluation of complex interventions that address health and well-being disparities.<\/p>\n<\/i> More about Tara<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tara Carr is a Research Program Manager at Abacus Evaluation. She provides evaluation management for Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics – Underserved Populations (RADx-UP), NIH HEAL Initiative\u00ae| Heal Connections, and the Clinical Scholars national leadership program. She earned her MPH and PhD degrees in Nutrition from the Gillings School of Global Public Health, ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel Hill, with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2334,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2345","directory","type-directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_upd_display_name":["Tara Carr, PhD, MPH, RD"],"_upd_reverse_display_name":["Carr, Tara"],"_upd_last_name":["Carr"],"_upd_first_name":["Tara"],"_upd_sortorder_override":[],"_upd_sortorder":["1"],"_upd_gallery_summary":["Research Program Manager"],"_upd_no_link":[],"_upd_degree1":[],"_upd_degree2":[],"_upd_email":[[{"email_text":"tara_carr@med.unc.edu"}]],"_upd_phone":[],"_upd_address":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/abacus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/abacus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/abacus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/directory"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/abacus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/abacus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2345\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/abacus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/abacus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}