AHRQ Staff: Alaina Fournier
Alaina Fournier, Ph.D., M.H.C.I.
Health Scientist Administrator Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund
Office of the Director
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Alaina Fournier, Ph.D., M.H.C.I is a health scientist administrator in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ’s) Office of the Director. She is responsible for managing the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund strategic planning and stakeholder engagement processes.
During her 15 years at AHRQ, Dr. Fournier has worked in various capacities to encourage use of comparative effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research in healthcare, and cultivating expertise in shared decision making. Dr. Fournier began her career at AHRQ supporting stakeholder engagement in the Effective Health Care Program. She also worked in AHRQ’s Office of Communications leading several knowledge transfer projects for targeted dissemination of AHRQ’s comparative effectiveness research and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) evidence-based tools and products. Dr. Fournier has led the development, implementation, and evaluation of AHRQ’s SHARE Approach. Most recently, she worked in AHRQ’s Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, Division of Practice Improvement, where she led AHRQ’s PCOR Dissemination and Implementation Initiative and a project to develop feasibility criteria for prioritizing implementation investments.
Dr. Fournier received her B.S. from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and her Ph.D. in pharmacology, and a master’s degree in healthcare innovation from the University of Pennsylvania.
