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Sabrina Avripas

Pronouns: She/Her

Senior Research Director
Public Health
Sabrina has expertise in studies focused on the health of racial, ethnic, gender, and minority populations through a trauma-informed lens.

Sabrina is a senior research director in NORC’s Public Health department. She has over 20 years of experience leading, managing, and designing research projects for federal organizations, private foundations, and academic institutions. She brings to her work training in clinical social work and public health research and experience using a variety of methods in an interdisciplinary context.

Specifically, Sabrina provides leadership and multi-mode methodological expertise to studies focused on the health of racial, ethnic, gender, and minority populations through a trauma-informed lens. In addition to project leadership, she is active in all levels of business development ranging from the development of proposals for small private and not for profit organizations to grant administration for large federal institutions.

At NORC, Sabrina leads the organizational wide Sexual & Gender Minority research steering committee. She also spearheads the development of the Community-Engaged Research Framework Toolkit that supports NORC staff in conducting community-engaged research with a diversity, racial equity, and inclusion (DREI) lens.