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NORC at the University Chicago
NORC combines our subject matter and data collection expertise to design and evaluate a variety of programs to track and mitigate health conditions and rapidly respond to novel outbreaks.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has made manifest, there is a critical need among policymakers, the scientific community, and the public for timely, reliable data on infectious diseases.

NORC conducts a range of research, surveillance, and program evaluations meant to help monitor and reduce the spread of infectious diseases.  As part of our ongoing efforts to improve public health infrastructure, we actively support state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) partners implement and evaluate data modernization efforts, such as electronic case reporting (eCR), onboarding to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), and expansion of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) to facilitate secure data sharing across qualified health information networks (QHIN).

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we quickly adapted our telephone interview capacities to conduct contract tracing in Delaware and Maryland and added COVID-specific supplements to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. We also conducted a host of other COVID-specific research.

Since 2005, NORC has administered the National Immunization Survey for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, providing essential information on immunization rates. Our research scientists also evaluate a range of interventions and strategies for HIV prevention and treatment for populations, including older adults, military veterans, sexual and gender minority youth, and black men who have sex with men.

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