Sam Loewen

Senior Research Associate

Sam Loewen is a public health researcher with an interest in the impact of race, class, and geography on youth and family outcomes. She specializes in quantitative and statistical analysis of administrative data.

At Action Research, Sam leads work with New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families. She oversees research protocols, analyses of administrative data, literature and case file reviews, interviews, synthesis, and the development of actionable recommendations to inform policy and practice. Her recent work includes leading a project to decrease the rate of maltreatment in care, developing multivariate regression models to examine factors affecting placement stability, conducting a propensity score matching analysis for an evaluation of older youth services, and leading analyses of ACS’s alternative response initiative (CARES). Sam also contributes to the federal court appointed monitoring team in the child welfare class action litigation in Texas and, previously, South Carolina.

Prior to joining Action Research, Sam worked with health and development organizations including the International Rescue Committee and Population Council. She is the author of several reports and is published in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics.

Sam holds an MPH in Population and Family Health and Applied Biostatistics from Columbia University and a BA in Geography from Vassar College.