Allison Kemner, MPH, serves as the Chief Research Officer and Senior Vice President at the Parents as Teachers National Center, where she has been a key leader for over a decade. She directs the Parents as Teachers Research Council and leads strategic research partnerships with universities and national experts to advance the evidence base of the Parents as Teachers home visiting model. Allison oversees all aspects of research, evaluation, and learning, including data collection, analysis, and dissemination, with a focus on quality assurance, continuous improvement, innovation, and outcomes measurement.
She played a pivotal role in launching Parents as Teachers first family-level data system capable of capturing individual and family-level data—transforming how the organization measures impact. Her expertise in home visiting evaluation includes leading the evaluation of Wyoming’s MIECHV grant and the Right from the Start teen parenting initiative. In 2019, she partnered with LeCroy and Milligan Associates to launch a randomized controlled trial assessing PAT’s effectiveness.
Allison is a Co-Investigator on eight National Institute of Health funded studies, with four currently active, and has led research initiatives supported by major funders including the Bezos Family Foundation, Elevance Health Foundation, Enterprise Mobility Foundation, Lanter Foundation, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation, Overdeck Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
She contributes her expertise to national advisory groups and expert panels, including the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative, Saint Louis University College of Public Health and Social Justice, and Washington University in St. Louis Community Advisory Board.
Before joining Parents as Teachers, Allison spent over ten years managing large-scale research and evaluation projects at Transtria and Saint Louis University’s School of Public Health. Her research has spanned maternal and child health, social determinants of health, childhood obesity prevention, health equity, partnership capacity, and health literacy. She holds a Master of Public Health from Saint Louis University, with concentrations in Epidemiology and Behavioral Science.