Barbara Ward, MBA, is a Survey Director in Survey Research Operations (SRO). She has over 35 years of experience in survey research, including 14 years in proposal development and financial management and 20 years managing data collection activities. Ms. Ward is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), with experience managing large, complex, data collection projects using achievement and cognitive assessments, anthropometric measurements, biomarkers and environmental data collection. Her past projects have included interviewing children and hard-to-reach populations. Ms. Ward developed SRO’s mandated reporting protocol and serves as the team leader for the mandated reporting triage team. She serves as an IRB consultant for SRO.