Aiden Quinn

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Aiden Quinn

Senior Evaluation Project Manager Method & Eval Research Core Facility University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
WHIT 370
Lincoln, NE 68583-0866
Phone
402-472-0764 On-campus 2-0764
Email
aiden.quinn@unl.edu

Dr. Quinn is the Senior Evaluation Project Manager with MERC and has a background in health equity and health disparity research, specifically as it relates to the LGBTQ+ community. They earned their PhD in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. They also hold an MA in Sociology from the University of Nebraska – Omaha, an MA in Criminal Justice/Homeland Security Administration from Monmouth University, and a BS in Justice and Law Administration from Western Connecticut State University. Dr. Quinn has worked with local, state, and federal partners including SAMHSA, HRSA, the Department of Homeland Security, Nebraska DHHS, and the Nebraska Department of Education on project topics including opioid response, HIV treatment and prevention, school emergency operations procedures and response, and service learning programs to prevent targeted and terroristic violence. Dr. Quinn also serves as the Policy Chair for the APHA LGBTQ+ Health Caucus Executive Committee.

In their free time, Dr. Quinn enjoys spending time with their partner, two stepdaughters, and pets (Felix the Berniedoodle, Bonk and Mochi the cats, and Jellybean the guinea pig), starting but not finishing knitting and crochet projects, reading, running, and finding new hobbies or crafts to obsess over.

Get to know Aiden!

  1. What brought you to MERC?
    1. I came to MERC after several years as a researcher with the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. 
  2. What topic could you talk enthusiastically about for hours?
    1. I have a major obsession with cryptids and cryptozoology. I could talk to you for hours about them. Is Bigfoot real? Is the Mothman an inter-dimensional being? Is the Loch Ness Monster actually a dinosaur - or the ghost of one? And what does society's interest in them mean? Are they another ideation of humanity's age-old need for the existence of magic?