Lizbeth Schorr

Director

Project on Effective Interventions

I3 THE INTERFACE OF SCIENCE AND ACTION PART 2: USING EVIDENCE TO SHAPE POLICY AND PRACTICE

Lisbeth B. (Lee) Schorr is Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard University, and Director of the Project on Effective Interventions at Harvard University, and of its Pathways Mapping Initiative.  She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Aspen Institute's Roundtable on Community Change, and was its founding co-chair.

She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and the National Selection Committee of the Ford Foundation/Kennedy School Awards for Innovations in American Government.  She has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Whittier College, Lewis and Clark College, Wheelock College, the University of Maryland, Bank Street College of Education, and Wilkes University.

Lisbeth Schorr founded and directs the Pathways Mapping Initiative (PMI), supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to develop new approaches to building a stronger knowledge base about “what works.”  It has developed Pathways to the outcomes of School Readiness and Third Grade School Success, Successful Transition to Young Adulthood, and the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.  All provide a broad array of actionable information to those seeking to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, youth, families, and neighborhoods.

Ms. Schorr and her husband, Daniel, live in Washington DC. They have two children, Jonathan, of Oakland CA, and Lisa, of Boston MA.