Melissa Heim Viox
Pronouns: She/Her
Melissa is a senior research director in the Health Sciences department at NORC at the University of Chicago. She has extensive experience in data collection management and data quality monitoring for in-person and web surveys, including for hard-to-reach populations such as teens and sexual and gender minorities. In addition, Melissa currently leads recruitment and implementation for AHRQ’s Safety Program for Telemedicine.
Melissa has managed multiple projects with adolescents for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including TAPS, a dyad survey of adolescents and their parents, and CovEx, a survey about the impact of COVID-19 on youth 5-19. She also led work with the Division of Violence Prevention to modernize the Dating Matters program to be more inclusive of LGBTQ+ youth, and led the analytic program for START, a survey of adolescent men who have sex with men and transgender youth using social media for recruitment. Adding to her social media expertise, Melissa was project director for the Using Social Media for Recruitment in Cancer Prevention and Control Survey-Based Research Project, a series of surveys on cancer risk and preventive screening and testing using Facebook and Google for recruitment.
Melissa has co-authored papers and presentations on survey topics such as adolescent mental health, sexual orientation and gender development, physical measures data quality, and social media recruitment. Prior to NORC, she worked in school- and community-based health programs.
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Education
MPH
University of Illinois-Chicago
BA
Vanderbilt University
Project Contributions
Publications
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opens in new tabThe Longitudinal Measurement of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: A Study of Identity Change in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adults and Adolescents.
Journal Article | April 22, 2024
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New Resources for Parenting Teens and Navigating Adolescent LGBTQ+ Relationships
NORC Article | November 12, 2023
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opens in new tabMental Health and Suicide Risk Disparities among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from CDC’s Nationally-Representative COVID Experiences Surveys
Journal Article | April 1, 2022
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opens in new tab"Substance Misuse and Condomless Sex among Transgender Youth."
Journal Article | October 13, 2021
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opens in new tab"Association of Children's Mode of School Instruction with Child and Parent Experiences and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic—COVID Experiences Survey, United States, October 8-November 13, 2020."
Journal Article | April 23, 2021
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opens in new tab"Awareness and Willingness to Use Biomedical Prevention Strategies for HIV among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth: Results from a National Survey."
Journal Article | January 10, 2021
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opens in new tabChapter Three Meeting Youth Where They Are: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Social Media Recruitment for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
Chapter | January 1, 2021
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opens in new tab"Meeting Youth Where They Are: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Social Media Recruitment for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth."
Book | December 28, 2020