Cover Letter

Pialee Roy, Ph.D., Email: Pialee.Roy@gmail.com

To Whom It May Concern,

I am a personable, motivated, detail-oriented and efficient individual that enjoys leading both
group collaborations and independent efforts for the completion of workplan tasks. My education and
employment background spans Human Development, Psychology, Disabilities Studies, Child
Development, Public Health and Public Policy. I have earned related degrees from University of
Delaware and Tufts University with a strong interest in child and family policy. I enjoy all aspects of the
quality improvement initiatives and especially being able to show the impact or rationale for additional
funding through the results of proven health and education outcomes. Working with people, on behalf of
diverse families in understanding and reporting trends from process and outcomes evaluation is very
motivating!

Leadership and Project Management

My Ph.D. dissertation was successfully defended on the topic of Health Literacy and Health
Seeking Behavior for Parents of Young Children in Early Education and Care Programs in New Castle
County, Delaware. The study, administered in both English and Spanish, reviewed a sample of Head
Start and non-Head Start programs, representing low-income and higher income families, as they relate
to levels of assessment for nutrition comprehension, weight management and levels of referrals to
pediatric primary care utilization and specialty care. The process involved writing a thorough IRB
application, defending research proposals, meeting with program administrators to gather research site
permissions, and verifying the feasibility of protocol implementation through regular communications. I
took complete initiative with the process and in organizing an SPSS database followed through with the
data entry of 30 pages of survey data responses that were coded, organized, and evaluated in both
English and Spanish for 220 respondents after outreaching to 1000 families to understand the differences
between federally funded and private pay preschools. At the time online survey implementation would
have assumed access to a computer therefore paper surveys were the best route.I thoroughly structured
my surveys to be able to run an analysis from original data collected, ran analyses and reported the
trends in my dissertation based on the results.

Regarding administrative skills, I have been employed at a local universities where I managed
coordination and training of a team of 10 surveyors for assessing the quality of state services for
individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities at day programs through informed consent and
survey research procedures. I enjoy both leading teamwork, trainings, and leading learning activities. I
have taught online coursework about Public Policy, Research Methods coursework utilizing SPSS, Child
Development coursework, and Anthropology of Health for multicultural understanding about families of
diverse background. I was successful in managing classrooms of up to 15 people and at other times 65
students in an undergraduate class.

Relationship Building and Management

I have also worked in state level applications of supply and demand of early education services
and teacher compensation, retention and other public health initiatives in both Massachusetts and
Delaware. Working at the state level to ensure that health promotion services were inclusive of people
with disabilities I participated in strategic planning meetings, based on advisory board recommendations
and policy offices. I am adept with organizing inter-agency meetings, taking notes, and following up on
S.M.A.R.T workplans. On these projects, I have taken the lead to bring specific measurable activities
through to completion in a timely manner and taken initiative to collaborate with different offices and
agencies to include a specific population in existing or newly developing programs.
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Pialee Roy, Ph.D., Email: Pialee.Roy@gmail.com

I have coordinated multisite studies alongside of other research team members for data collection
activities at their location. For that effort, I took the lead in managing data collection and outreach to
families and clinicians while helping to problem solve issues unique to each site. Finally, I have
established a nonprofit to work on health and literacy promotion, and multicultural awareness through the
arts! We offered music and literacy promotions to enrich the learning environment of lower quality rated
preschools, and multicultural programs to raise funds for developmental assessment toolkits. I worked on
offering trainings to the undergraduate project and research assistants and helping them learn about
event organizations, including diverse communities for multicultural programs as a fundraiser for
assessment toolkits donated to a resource library, and CITI training, and IRB approved protocol for
working on developmentally relevant tasks for literacy assessments for the preschool age children
attending center based care.

Policy and Data Analysis

Having worked in the evaluation of a statewide family support and home visiting program, and
various policy fellowships toward community engagement initiatives, I am proficient with SPSS, Microsoft
Office, Survey Monkey, Qualtrics, and Piktochart infographics and can work on other platforms like
STATA. I am adept with quantitative and qualitative research processes. I can write successful Internal
Review Board (IRB) applications for human subjects protections, including protocol and survey
development. I have strong research methodology, literature reviews, and data collection through
surveys, observations or test administration. I also have experience with descriptive and inferential data
analysis to inform charts, graphs, program recommendations, briefs, memos, and reports.

Thank you for your consideration of my application!

~ Sincerely, Pialee Roy, Ph.D.