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Heather Menne

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
MGS, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø
BA, Psychology and French, Ripon College

Research Interests

dementia, caregiving, home- and community-based services, aging policy

Bio Sketch

Heather L. Menne is a skilled health policy researcher, project manager, and collaborator with over 15 years of Federal and non-profit experience and expertise in aging and disability programs and services. Her research career has focused on older people, people with disabilities, and long-term services and supports (LTSS), with a specific emphasis on people living with dementia, family caregivers, and formal caregivers. She also conducts evaluations of evidence-based and evidence-informed dementia programs for older adults and family caregivers. She has experience in community-based technical assistance, qualitative and quantitative research methods, evaluation design, and survey development, as well as data management and statistical analysis.

Dr. Menne serves on the editorial boards of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice and the Journal of Applied Gerontology. Before joining the Miami faculty, she worked at RTI International, the Administration for Community Living, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and as a Senior Research Scientist at the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging. In 2013-2014 she was a Health and Aging Policy Fellow (HAPF) in the office of Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA).

Selected Publications and Technical Papers

• DiBenedetti, D., Menne, H., Paulsen, R., Krasa, H.B., Vradenburg, G., Comer, M., Callahan, L.F., Winfield, J., Potashman, M., Heithoff, K., Hartry, A., Oberdhan, D., Wilson, H., Hoffman, D.L., Weinberg, D., Kremer, I.N., Taylor, G.A., Taylor, J.M., Lappin, D., Martin, A.D., Hauber, B., & Romano (DeMuro), C. (2023). Technical review of clinical outcomes assessments across the continuum of Alzheimer's disease. Neurology & Therapy, 12(2), 571-595.

• Menne, H., Gordon, K., Gould, E., Farah Miller, E., Yuen, P., Shuman, S., & Stockdale, H. (2023, August). Promising programs and services for people living alone with dementia. Prepared by the National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center for the U.S. Administration on Aging.
• Derzon, J.H. & Menne, H.L. (2022). Implementation science: An approach for evaluating aging policies and services. Public Policy & Aging Report, 32(1), 34-35.
• Menne, H.L. (2022). Difficulties demonstrating Impact of OAA programming and glimmers of hope. Generations Journal, 45 (4/ Winter 2021-2022).
• Menne, H.L., Hunter, M., Gould, E., Palmer, L., Yuen, P., Murray, M.J., Gordon, K., Shuman, S.B., Hughes, S., Knowles, M., & Walsh, E.G. (2021). Filling the gaps in dementia-capable home and community-based services: Report on Completed Administration for Community Living ADI-SSS grants to communities and states. Prepared by the National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging.
• Robinson, K.N., Menne, H.L., & Gaeta, R. (2021). Use of informal support as a predictor of home- and community-based services utilization. Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 76(1), 133- 140.  
• Morgan, R. E., Dragon, C., Daus, G., Holzberg, J., Kaplan, R., Menne, H., Symens Smith, A., & Spiegelman, M. (2020, August). Updates on terminology of sexual orientation and gender identity survey measures. FCSM 20-03. Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology.

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