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                      Mind the Gap</span></strong></span></p>
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                <p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span
                      style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial,
                      sans-serif;">Investing in Prevention: Standard and
                      Innovation </span></b><span style="font-size:
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                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span
                      style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial,
                      sans-serif;">in Economic Evaluation</span></b><span
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                    sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                      style="font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: Arial,
                      sans-serif;">Max Crowley, Ph.D., M.S.</span></b><span
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                    sans-serif;">Thursday, February 21, 2019 | 11:00
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                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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                                        color:#0B3B62">About This
                                        Webinar</span></b><span
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                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
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                                      color:#36495F">Dr. Max Crowley
                                      will discuss key standards for
                                      economic evaluation as identified
                                      by a number of convergent efforts.
                                      In particular, he will discuss the
                                      important role of administrative
                                      records for mapping the costs and
                                      benefits of prevention onto public
                                      budgets. Participants will gain a
                                      greater awareness of (1) best
                                      practices for economic evaluations
                                      of prevention, (2) how to increase
                                      utility of estimates for budget
                                      making, and (3) opportunities to
                                      include economic evaluation in
                                      ongoing and new studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
                                        color:#0B3B62">?About Max
                                        Crowley</span></b><span
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                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
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                                      color:#36495F">Dr. Max Crowley is
                                      Assistant Professor of Human
                                      Development and Family Studies at
                                      Penn State University (PSU) and
                                      directs the PSU Administrative
                                      Data Accelerator. He is a
                                      prevention scientist investigating
                                      how to optimize investments in
                                      healthy development. His work sits
                                      at the intersection of
                                      developmental science, social
                                      policy, and public finance. Dr.
                                      Crowley's program of research is
                                      motivated by a desire to increase
                                      the use of cost-effective,
                                      evidence-based preventive
                                      strategies to improve the lives of
                                      children and families. To
                                      accomplish this, his work aims to
                                      (1) strengthen methods for
                                      economic evaluations of preventive
                                      interventions, (2) optimize
                                      prevention strategies' impact, and
                                      (3) develop best practices for how
                                      to translate these investments
                                      into evidence-based policy. In
                                      this manner, he seeks to not only
                                      understand the costs and benefits
                                      of prevention, but aims to develop
                                      better interventions and encourage
                                      them to be disseminated widely. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
                                      color:#36495F">Dr. Crowley
                                      translates his work for a wide
                                      array of policymakers on issues
                                      related to the impact and
                                      financing of prevention
                                      strategies. Recently, this
                                      research has identified
                                      cost-effective strategies for
                                      preventing opioid misuse through
                                      investments in schools and
                                      families. Dr. Crowley is the
                                      Principal Investigator on grants
                                      from the National Institute on
                                      Drug Abuse, <i>Eunice Kennedy
                                        Shriver</i> National Institute
                                      of Child Health and Human
                                      Development, as well as The Annie
                                      E. Casey Foundation, Laura and
                                      John Arnold Foundation, Robert
                                      Wood Johnson Foundation, William
                                      T. Grant Foundation, and Doris
                                      Duke Charitable Foundation. Dr.
                                      Crowley has received national
                                      awards recognizing this
                                      scholarship from the NIH, The
                                      National Bureau of Economic
                                      Research, Society for Prevention
                                      Research, Association for Public
                                      Policy Analysis & Management,
                                      Research Society on Alcoholism,
                                      and National Prevention Science
                                      Coalition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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