Prisca N. Fall, MA

Prisca N. Fall, MA is a Health Science Analyst in the Office of the Associate Director (OAD) of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program (HDRP) within the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). Ms. Fall is responsible for coordinating and supporting work aimed at understanding how patient, clinician, and system factors that influence healthcare delivery. Building upon her prior experience conducting portfolio analyses, overseeing interagency agreements, and managing contracts for large projects, Ms. Fall collaborates and leads related initiatives within HDRP to advance programmatic extramural priorities and support strategic research planning.

Prior to coming to NCI, Ms. Fall worked as a Health Specialist within the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) between March 2014 to September 2022. While there she worked within the Population and Social Processes Branch and the Office of Data Resources and Analytics where she was the primary point of contact for interagency agreement, grant, and contract activities to develop areas of research via expert meetings, build and share data resources for aging research, and support interagency research collaborations. Notably, she served as the direct liaison for all Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data requests from funded investigators, potential grantees, and others who proposed to use CMS-linked data for their NIA-funded projects.

Ms. Fall earned a BS in Psychology with a minor in Anthropology in 2004 from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, and a MA in Medical Anthropology in 2008 from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.