Chad W. Thomas researches public health and behavioral health funded by
the NIH, SAMHSA, and FDA with three scholarly publications. Chad’s current
research focuses on connecting people to housing, substance use recovery
services, and therapy.
Chad graduated cum laude in three years with a
Bachelor of Science in Economics with a minor in Mathematics and a minor
in Statistics from Florida State University in 2018.
In his free time, he
reads philosophy to learn how to improve his integrity and apply lessons
from experience with Crohn’s Disease and an impoverished childhood. He
strives to be the person he wished he had during hardship.
Here is my favorite playlist. I discuss how the
Emotions playlist influenced my life in my forthcoming memoir
You Are Enough: How I Learned to Love Myself which I will share on my Books page.
BookShop: I receive a 10% commission from sales through my Bookshop page.
Research Coordinator II – SAMHSA-funded and FDA-funded research
Leadership
Lead, as Team Lead, two Research Coordinator I’s for annual
reports
Trained and guided team members to conduct literature reviews
and analyze, visualize, and disseminate data via Excel and
PowerPoint
Delegate responsibilities to group members via Asana
Establish meeting priorities for clinicians connecting with
clients for surveys and services
Advise colleagues on methodology and evaluation technique
improvements
Train new-hires and an intern on data collection, analysis, and
dissemination
Support Clients and Clinicians
Provide crisis intervention and connect clients in crisis to
clinicians or emergency services
Located a client wandering around rural Tennessee who
experienced an episode of schizophrenia and contacted law
enforcement to rescue them from potential harm
Contact emergency personnel during crisis when clients
threatened people with homicide
Conduct surveys with clients experiencing thoughts of suicide
and homicide and with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, AUD, SUD,
and other SMI and SED
Conduct behavioral health screenings such as the AUDT, DAST-10,
BARC-10, PCL-5, PHQ-9, GAD-7, and INQ-10
Disseminate Data and Reports
Disseminate two-page report during quarterly department meeting
to c-suite leadership
Create PowerPoint presentations of visualized and summarized
quarterly reports
Write 50-plus pages for needs assessments for catchment area
every other year
Collect, Manage, and Analyze Data
Streamline analysis procedures with Pivot Tables, Power Query,
and functions in Excel
Test for statistical significance (i.e. Chi-square Test and
T-Test) in SPSS
Visualize data using charts and graphs via Excel/SPSS
Analyze private and public data at local, county, and national
levels to identify community needs
Calculate descriptive statistics and trends of demographic
disparities using Excel/SPSS
Ensure methodology and data accuracy by cleaning data across
REDCap/SPARS/Excel
Organize and track 100s of clients’ data in REDCap/SPARS/Excel
Synthesize federal, state, and university data
Conduct NOMs, GPRA, and SUPRT surveys
Policy Apprenticeship January 2025 – June 2025
Delivered report to corporate lobbyist to advocate Congress in
support of behavioral health care, Medicaid, the ACA, and SAMHSA
Reviewed literature of behavioral health research and impact of
federal funding on reducing recidivism and improving access to
healthcare
Synthesized reports from Congress and the Congressional Budget
Office (CBO) for reports to lobbyist and C-suite executives
Annotated legislative hearing on health care in Tallahassee, FL
Rural Health Research Group, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL,
2020 – 2022
Research Assistant – NIH-funded research
Published three scholarly articles on health care disparities across
demographics
Lead a series of webinars training two colleagues about data
analysis in SPSS
Conducted T-tests, Chi-Square Tests, and regression analysis to
identify disparities
Calculated and analyzed summary statistics of data from federal
sources using SPSS
Devoe L. Moore Institute,Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 2016
– 2018
Policy Analyst
Spoke with Dr. Peter Boettke in Prague, Czech Republic during a
one-week summer program about the importance of community
collaboration and decentralized recovery after Hurricane Katrina and
the collapse of the Soviet Union
Published a report, “Preparing Florida for the Next Big Storm,” in
The DMC Perspective/li>
Incorporated lessons from economics courses to recommend cooperation
between the private and public sectors
Wrote blogs about the intersection of private and public sectors
Reviewed literature about roles of private and public sectors in
hurricane response management
Figueroa, Cristina Maria et al. “Healthcare Needs of U.S. Rural Latinos:
A Growing, Multicultural Population.” Online Journal of Rural Nursing
and Health Care: The Official Journal of the Rural Nurse Organization
vol. 21,1 (2021): 24-48. doi:10.14574/ojrnhc.v21i1.658.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34447290/
