Immaculate Apchemengich, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate

Dr. Immaculate Apchemengich joined AMTC in 2020. As a senior research associate, she leads the development of evaluation plans, including data collection, analysis, reporting, and dissemination for federally funded client projects as well as survey development and performance measures for impact evaluation and continuous quality improvement. She has developed evaluation plans and reports, supporting more than 15 full-scale evaluations for client programs throughout the United States.

At AMTC, Dr. Apchemengich is the lead researcher and evaluator for seven Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) client projects. In addition, she is the principal investigator on two projects. The first is a U.S. Department of Justice-funded project to reduce recidivism in St. Louis, Missouri. The second is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF)-funded Personal Responsibility Education Program in South Florida. Dr. Apchemengich also serves in a lead research role on an HHS ACF Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies rigorous impact evaluation in South Florida and has played a key research role in an HHS Office of Population Affairs-funded research project, the AMTC Content, Pedagogy, Implementation, and Context Study.

Apchemengich earned her Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a BS in Chemistry from Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She has formal training in program planning and evaluation, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and community-based intervention research. Apchemengich is an active member of the American Public Health Association and the International Union for Health Promotion and Health Education.