Sarah Crowne, PhD, is a senior research scientist and program area director in the child and family well-being supports research area at Child Trends. Dr. Crowne has more than 20 years of experience in home visiting and maternal and child health research, including more than 10 years of work funded through HRSA’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program. As principal investigator, she led efforts to design and test a conceptual framework for home visiting implementation quality, to support required activities under the MIECHV Program reauthorization, and to investigate the role of MIECHV-funded local program implementation as part of the COVID-19 response. In other recent work, she has partnered with national home visiting models, local public health departments, and state agencies in research and evaluation, quality improvement, and policy development. Dr. Crowne’s additional research interests include early childhood services and family violence prevention.

Previously, Dr. Crowne was an assistant scientist in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At Johns Hopkins, she worked on the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC), the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) and MIHOPE-Strong Start studies, and New Jersey’s statewide home visiting evaluation.