Our Work

As a public health consulting organization, Sea Glass Group is dedicated to providing services that promote widespread health and well-being. Through a collaborative approach that fosters genuine partnership, we strive to create lasting positive changes. Our services include…

Program Evaluation

Supporting you in telling your programmatic stories through data. We support you in developing programmatic goals, measuring progress towards those goals, collecting and analyzing data, and synthesizing information to help tell the story of the work that you do to support decision-making and program implementation. This may include development of logic models, theories of change, surveys, interview and focus group discussion guides, facilitating interviews and focus group discussions, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, and developing reports, presentations, and data visualizations.

Research

Expanding knowledge beyond specific public health programs. We help you tell a wider story, with the hope that learnings can be applied to a broad group of communities and/or public health initiatives. This may involve working with institutional review boards, developing research protocols and data collection tools, conducting data collection and statistical analysis, developing literature reviews, abstracts, manuscripts, and posters, and working with journals to support publication.

Capacity Building

Strengthening the ability of public health organizations and individuals to conduct their own data monitoring, reporting, and program evaluation. We collaborate with you to build processes, knowledge, and skills in conducting your own program evaluation activities. Activities may include developing data collection and reporting templates, supporting database development, and facilitating one-on-one or group technical assistance sessions to improve staff capacity for program monitoring and evaluation.

Policy & Advocacy

Advancing policies and strategies that improve public health and well-being. We assess existing policies and strategies, while supporting technical writing and strategic planning efforts to help with the development and implementation of new strategies that enhance public health and wellness initiatives. This may include support with grant-writing, strategic plan development, developing fact sheets, one-pagers, issue briefs, executive summaries, and policy recommendations.

Publications & Presentations

Feel free to explore a few work examples.

Manuscripts

Mera J, Essex W, Coyle EM, Comiford A, Feder MA. Advancing Health Equity for American Indian and Alaska Native People Through Inclusion in Clinical Trials: Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment and COVID-19 Outcomes Among Ambulatory Cherokee Nation Health Services Patients. Health Equity. 2025 Apr 1;9(1):235-44.
Essex W, Mera J, Comiford A, Winters A, Feder MA. Assessing the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of a Pilot Hepatitis C Screening Program at Food Distribution Sites in Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma. J Community Health. 2023 Aug 2. Link.
Essex W, Feder M, Mera J. Evaluation of the Cherokee Nation Hepatitis C Virus Elimination Program – Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma, 2015-2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2023; 72:597-600. Link.
Dev R, Kohler P, Feder M, Unger JA, Woods NF, Drake AL. A systematic review and meta-analysis of postpartum contraceptive use among women in low-and middle-income countries. Reproductive health. 2019 Dec 1;16(1):154. Link.
Feder MA, Kulasingam SL, Kiviat NB, Mao C, Nelson EJ, Winer RL, Whitham HK, Lin J, Hawes SE. Correlates of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Association with HPV-16 and HPV-18 DNA Detection in Young Women. Journal of Women's Health. 2019 Oct 1;28(10):1428-35. Link.

Reports

Feder M, Menstell E, Winters A, Nakatsukasa-Ono W, Berruti A. (2020). Evaluating Sexually Transmitted Infection Express Services: Findings from a Multi-Site Data Collaborative. Cardea Services and National Association of County and City Health Officials. Link.
Feder M, Jayasuriya A, Lutz O, Nair M, Winters A. (2019). Prenatal to five developmental screening, referral, and connection to services in King County: A report from a participatory landscape analysis. Seattle, WA: Cardea Services and King County Department of Community and Human Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities and Early Childhood Supports. Link.

Strategic Plans & Toolkits

National Community Health Representative Program Strategic Plan. 2023. Indian Health Service. Link.
Native Ending the Epidemic Advisory Committee. 2022. Indigenous HIV/AIDS Strategy: 2022-2025. Link.
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Enhanced Gonorrhea Surveillance Toolkit. 2020. Link.

Presentations

Feder M, Gill M, Daugherty M. Indian Country ECHO Evaluation. MetaECHO - Indigenous Community ECHOs Listening Circle. 2023 Sep 18-21; Albuquerque, NM.
Lucas-Pipkorn S, Feder M, Ohlrogge E. Strength in community: Building evaluation capacity in Tribal settings through a community of practice. American Evaluation Association Annual Evaluation Conference. 2022 Nov. 7-12; New Orleans, LA.
Reno H, Feder M, Menstell E, Ried C. Leveraging STI Express Services for HIV Prevention and Care. Presentation at 2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment. 2020 Aug. 11-14; Virtual.
Feder M, Nakatsukasa-Ono W, Vineyard A. Enhanced Gonorrhea Surveillance Toolkit – Sneak Preview and Feedback Opportunity. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Presentation at STD Engage 2019, National Coalition of STD Directors. 2019 Nov. 20; Alexandria, VA.

Posters

Mera J, Feder M, Sawyer J, Greene G, Reilley B, Wirth A, Stephens D, Leston J. Cost Savings Modeling of Telehealth Services for Hepatitis C Virus Infection, Cherokee Nation. Conference on Retroviruses
and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). 2024 Mar. 3-6; Denver, CO.
Leston J, Bradley V, Dreier K, Warren H, Ambrose G, Feder M, Wu EW, Ogleton M. Developing the Indigenous HIV/AIDS Syndemic Strategy: Weaving together the National HIV, STI, and Viral Hepatitis Plans. The STI & HIV World Congress. 2023 Jul. 24-27; Chicago, IL.
Mera J, Essex W, Feder M, Razavi H, Razavi-Shearer D. The Elimination of Hepatitis C by the Cherokee Nation. Viral Hepatitis Elimination 2022, The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). 2022 Feb. 24-25; Online.
Ritter S, Feder M, Menstell E, Barbee L, Hendry C, Jamison K, Obafemi O, Ried C, Shaw-KaiKai J, Urban M, Berruti A, Reno H. Evaluating STI Express Services: Satisfaction of Express Compared to Non-Express Patients in the United States, 2019. STD Prevention Conference, Virtual 2020.
Ritter S, Menstell E, Feder M, Barbee L, Hendry C, Jamison K, Obafemi O, Ried C, Shaw-KaiKai J, Urban M, Berruti A, Reno H. Evaluating STI Express Services: Characteristics of Express Patients in the United States, 2018-2019. STD Prevention Conference; Virtual 2020.
Essex W, Feder M, Winters A, Nakatsukasa-Ono W, Mera JR. Cherokee Nation’s Community-Based Hepatitis C Elimination Model: November 2015 – June 2019 Results. Cherokee Nation Health Services. The Liver Meeting 2019, American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD). 2019 Nov 8-12; Boston, MA.

To learn more about our work please feel free to contact us