Kelly Daley

Overview

Kelly Daley, PhD, is an Associate Vice President for Public Health with 20 years of experience leading social science and policy research. She specializes in designing and operationalizing research among vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations, with a focus on improving data collection quality and efficiency through innovative multimode approaches.

Daley currently leads a portfolio of projects for FDA, using experimental design to better understand consumer understanding of food technology and the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceutical drugs. She served as interim project director for a large-scale national study of the Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program for HRSA. She previously led the Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), a complex household study measuring adult literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills.

As a principal investigator and project director, Daley has led large-scale studies for federal agencies, including FDA, USDA, CMS, EEOC, ACF, HUD, and DHS. She has also designed and directed research for state and local agencies and nonprofit organizations, such as the Alzheimer’s Association, Feeding America, the Anti-Cruelty Society, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Education

• PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago
• MA, Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University
• BA, Political Science, University of Chicago