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Alisa Male is a Project Manager and Senior Analyst on several contracts with SAMHSA. She is an effective manager with excellent understanding of and hands-on experience with her projects. She is very familiar with a number of large-scale mental health and substance abuse databases and has worked with SAMHSA data for more than 10 years. She has good working knowledge of statistical, database, project management, and graphics software packages. She communicates well and is known for providing excellent customer service. Ms. Male has held progressively responsible positions on contracts with SAMHSA and other agencies and organizations during the past 11 years. She is Project Manager for the National Outcomes Measures (NOMs) project for the Office of Planning, Policy, and Budget (OPPB), including developing SAMHSA’s NOMs Web site and NOMs reports by SAMHSA program priority area. She heads support for the National Analytic Center (NAC), with responsibility for overseeing the writing and production of more than 100 issues of SAMHSA’s The DASIS Report. She managed the development and maintenance of the NAC Data Library, comprised of more than 50 databases. She manages a project to process and certify physician waivers to use Buprenorphine for treatment of opioid addiction for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), and has directed infrastructure, programming, and analytical support for the National Reporting Program, Survey and Analysis Branch, Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) under three contracts since 1995. She manages the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroups (SEOWs) for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), part of SAMHSA’s data strategy program. Ms. Male has contributed to numerous journals, including the Journal of Addictive Diseases in 2005, and to numerous presentations and posters for meetings and conferences on substance abuse and health topics. She has produced the annual CMHS report on admissions and resident patients at state and county mental hospitals in the United States since 1997. She co-authored chapters in the biennial editions of Mental Health, United States, from 1996 through 2004 and has contributed to other reports commissioned by SAMHSA. Ms. Male earned an MA in Economics, with a concentration in Labor Economics, from American University (1993), and a BS in Economics, cum laude, from the University of Delaware (1989). | 