Susan Giarratano Russell, EdD, MSPH, CHES

Tel: (800) 825-8602
E-mail: susan@r2e2evaluation.com

Susan Giarratano Russell, evaluator and program planner for R²E², has more than twenty-five years of experience in education, health education, and health promotion. Susan has worked many years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While with the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health and with the Amateur Baseball Umpire’s Association and the National Center for Drug-Free Sport, Inc., she developed the first national survey of smokeless tobacco use and rule enforcement among Amateur Baseball Umpires. Susan assisted in the development of performance indicators and measures, developed and implemented program evaluation tools, prepared evaluation reports, and wrote a landscape of surveillance and evaluation data resources for community-based health promotion programs for the Steps to a HealthierUS program at CDC.

In the areas of nutrition and physical activity, Susan conducted the process and impact evaluation of the implementation of the California Department of Health Services Harvest of the Month program’s standardized materials in California schools, as well as the Harvest of the Month program for Hawthorne School District and the Los Angeles County Office of Education. She planned and conducted the evaluation of the California Department of Education-funded Linking Education, Activity and Food (LEAF). She also planned and implemented the impact evaluation of three pilot physical activity programs for California Department of Health Services.

Susan has served as an expert reviewer; developed instruments; and conducted pilot testing, interviews, and focus groups for tobacco control, nutrition, and cancer prevention projects for school, community, and media-based projects. She also evaluated several media projects for the Public Broadcasting Station, KCET-Community Television for Southern California.

For twenty years, Susan served as a professor of health science in undergraduate and graduate health education programs throughout the country. She has authored several textbooks and a number of articles in health and education journals.

Susan is an avid baseball fan and enjoys traveling with her husband. She has a Yorkshire terrier named Porky.