Kim Longfield

Founder, Databoom

Dr. Kim Longfield is the founder of Databoom and has more than 30 years of experience in global development, strategy, evaluation, and research. Kim's expertise includes strategic advising and communications, stakeholder engagement, translating evidence into practice, research and evaluation design, and capacity building. She is also skilled in design thinking, group facilitation, quantitative and qualitative research, and metrics.

 Before founding Databoom, Kim served as Director of Strategic Research and Evaluation at PSI, a global health nonprofit with offices in more than 60 countries. She led the organization's evaluation agenda to answer questions of strategic importance, including the impact, effectiveness, cost effectiveness, scale, and quality of social marketing programs. Her work has been used to develop, monitor, and evaluate programs, analyze health markets, and advocate for standard measures across organizations.

Kim is the author of more than 60 published journal articles, reports, book chapters, and working papers. She holds a PhD in Sociology and International Health and an MPH in International Health and Health Communication and Education, both from Tulane University, and she is fluent in French.