Staff: Andrea F. Goergen, MHS, RDN, PMP
Andrea F. Goergen, MHS, RDN, PMP
- Office of the Associate Director (OAD)
- Behavioral Research Program (BRP)
andrea.goergen@nih.gov
240-276-6855
Andrea Goergen, M.H.S., R.D.N, P.M.P., is a member of the communications team in the Office of the Associate Director within the Behavioral Research Program (BRP). Ms. Goergen works across BRP branches on extramural communication and programmatic project management.
Prior to joining BRP, Ms. Goergen cared for US Veterans as a clinical dietitian with the Veterans Health Administration. She also worked with the Social and Behavioral Research Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute as a research program manager in the Social Network Methods Section under Dr. Laura Koehly.
Between earning her Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics from the University of Maryland and her Master of Health Science degree in international health focused on social and behavioral interventions from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ms. Goergen served as Peace Corps volunteer for the Healthy Schools program in the highlands of Guatemala.
Research Areas
- Leveraging communication to promote health behavior change
- Personalized medicine and nutrition
- Access to care for vulnerable populations
Selected Publications and Presentations
- de Heer HD, de la Haye K, Skapinsky K, Goergen AF, Wilkinson AV, Koehly LM. Let's Move Together. Health Educ Behav 2017 Feb; 44(1):141-152.
- Goergen AF, Ashida S, Skapinsky K, de Heer HD, Wilkinson AV, Koehly LM. What You Don't Know: Improving Family Health History Knowledge among Multigenerational Families of Mexican Origin. Public Health Genomics 2016; 19(2):93-101.
- Koehly LM, Morris BA, Skapinsky K, Goergen A, Ludden A. Evaluation of the Families SHARE workbook: an educational tool outlining disease risk and healthy guidelines to reduce risk of heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer and colorectal cancer. BMC Public Health 2015 Nov 13; 15:1120.
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