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JoAnne O'RourkeJoAnne McFarland O'Rourke

Assistant Research Scientist
Director, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive

Brief Biography

JoAnne McFarland O'Rourke is the Principal Investigator of two initiatives at ICPSR. She is Director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA), which is funded by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS), SAMHSA. She is also the PI for Project 3 of the Human Subjects Protection and Disclosure Risk Analysis Project: Statistical Disclosure Control: Best Practices and Tools for the Social Sciences. Funded by NICHD, this project includes an extensive literature review, a Web survey of researchers and archivists, and tool development, testing, and dissemination.

Recent Publications

O'Rourke, JM, Roehrig, S, Heeringa, SG, Reed, BG, Birdsall, WC, Overcashier, M., Zidar, K. Solving Problems of Disclosure Risk While Retaining Key Analytic Uses of Publicly Released Microdata. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 1(3), September. 2006, 63-84.

O'Rourke, JM. Disclosure Risk Analysis, Survey Research Center Seminar Series Protections of Humans Subjects, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, May, 2006.

O'Rourke, JM. Assessing Disclosure Risk and Preserving Analytic Utility Using Disclosure Analysis, workshop presented for ICPSR's summer program course Data Sharing and Dissemination: Making Your Data a Resource for Others, June, 2005.

O'Rourke JM. The DASIS Report: Protecting Confidentiality in TEDS. DASIS Short Report Series, Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. December, 2003.

O'Rourke JM. Disclosure Analysis at ICPSR. ICPSR Bulletin, Volume XXIV, No. 1, Fall, 2003.

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