Elevate CBOs: Data 101 Workshop

Statistician and Contracting Officer Representative
Center For Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ), Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Marlon Daniel is a Statistician and Contracting Officer Representative with the Population Surveys Branch, Center For Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality with Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration (SAMHSA). He has over 15 years experience as a statistician, health services researcher, and academic instructor. Marlon has held positions supporting the Department of Defense, the Howard University Center for Minority Health Services Research, and the United States Department of Agriculture. He permanently joined federal service as a Statistician with the Office of Quality Improvement, Data Evaluation Division of the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. In this position he was responsible for contract management as a Level 2 COR, lead staff instructor for statistical and research methods, and provided statistical consultation and study design support to division leaders and researchers across the Bureau of Primary Healthcare.

In his current position, Marlon is a Level 3 COR responsible for the administration of high dollar value mission essential Agency contracts, providing support to staff in statistical programming and theory, and providing guidance to contractors on survey research, survey design, data collection, estimation, epidemiology, and data quality. Marlon is Certified in Public Health and holds an MPH in Biostatistics and Master of Health Administration from Loma Linda University and a BS in Behavioral Sciences from Andrews University.