Awards and Honors

The article “Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials,” won the 2010 AcademyHealth Article Of The Year Award and the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation’s 2010 research award for excellence in original and creative health care research.

Our cash and counseling study won the 2009 HSR Impact Award from AcademyHealth. The award recognizes research that has had a significant impact on health and health care and promotes examples of outstanding research that have been translated into health policy, management, or clinical practice.

The article “2010 National and State Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption,” co-authored by Mathematica’s Ellen Bouchery, was chosen as American Journal of Preventive Medicine’s 2015 paper of the year.

John Czajka, senior fellow, was named a 2016 recipient of the American Statistical Association Founders Award. The award recognizes members who have rendered distinguished service to the association.

Senior Researcher Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz was awarded the American Statistical Association's Pat Doyle Award. The award is given to a person who contributes to the association's Government Statistics Section (GSS) in a way that leaves a lasting impact.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) selected Mathematica’s team as a finalist in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Outcomes Challenge. An initiative of the CMS Innovation Center, in collaboration with the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the AI Health Outcomes Challenge offers innovators an opportunity to develop and demonstrate AI and machine learning technologies—such as deep learning and neural networks—that can aid clinicians in predicting health outcomes and keeping patients healthy.

Mathematica received the 2022 AVA Digital Gold award for its Influence & Impact video, an internal communications project that tells the story of our work through the voices of our staff.

Mathematica won the 2018 AVA Digital Gold award for an introductory video produced for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory project. The award honors excellence in digital creativity, branding, and strategy.

Mathematica was recognized at the CMS Quality Conference for “diligent work, authentic collaboration with patients, clinicians and partners and unprecedented national impact on patient safety in all U.S. hospitals.” Suzanne Felt-Lisk, senior researcher, also received a personal recognition presented by Paul McGann, Jean Moody-Williams, and Dennis Wagner together with the Partnership for Public Service.

Our education researchers won best paper at the 4th Annual International Conference on School Choice & Reform for “Charter High Schools’ Effects on Long-Term Attainment and Earnings.”

Mathematica researcher Elizabeth Weigensberg and her coauthors were the 2019 recipients of the Louis Brownlow Award for an article published in Public Administration Review. The award is presented to the authors of the best article by a practitioner or for a practitioner audience for the volume year. The article, “State Agencies’ Use of Administrative Data for Improved Practice: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities,” focuses on interviews with almost 100 staff from human services agencies and examines the realities of administrative data use.

Highlights include an Institute of Medicine report, “Evaluating Obesity Prevention Efforts: A Plan for Measuring Progress,” which garnered the National Academies Press Top Ten List for 2013.

Our disability research staff won the 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance Working Together Challenge, which was launched to generate ideas for improving services and supports for working-age people with disabilities. 250 experts participated in the challenge.

Mathematica won the 2010 Outstanding Contractor Award from the assistant secretary of the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, for our systematic reviews of pregnancy prevention and home visiting programs.

Mathematica was awarded the 2009 Outstanding Evaluation Award from the American Evaluation Association for research on abstinence. The award recognizes research that can stand alone as a singular example of high-quality evaluation, in terms of both methodology and usefulness, and that serves as a model for the field.

The Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management recognizes excellence in research by annually selecting a research paper to receive the Vernon Memorial Prize published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Mathematica researchers won the award in 2012 for “The Effects of Building Strong Families: A Healthy Marriage and Relationship Skills Education Program for Unmarried Parents” and in 2011 for “Regulating Abortion: Impact on Patients and Providers in Texas.”

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded Mathematica the grand prize of the Visualization Resources of Community-Level SDoH Challenge for the Community Connector data visualization tool. The tool provides resources and opportunities for communities to use SDoH data when identifying intervention opportunities.

Our education researchers won the Walton Family Foundation Award for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Reform 2014 for their article titled “Do KIPP Schools Boost Student Achievement?” published in Education Finance and Policy.

Mathematica data scientist Cindy Hu was one of five innovative female scientists and role models who received grants to continue their work on climate change and the water crisis.