Department of Health Policy and Management
School of Public Health and Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts
Meet the Team
Sarah Goff
Q4A Lab Founder
Sarah received a B.S. in Neurobiology from Yale University and earned her M.D. at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. Early in her career as a primary care pediatrician and internist, she recognized deep inequities in the health care system that contributed to health disparities. She returned to Yale for research training in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and worked as a clinician-scientist at Baystate Medical Center until 2019, when she joined the UMass Amherst faculty. She also received a PhD focused on organizational studies and implementation science from UMass. When she is not working, she loves to hike, run, bike, cross-country ski, play board games, bake, and hang out with her two children.
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Erin DeCou
Project Manager
Erin joined the Quality 4 All team as Project Manager in November 2021. She holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) with a focus on Community Development from Rutgers University, and a B.A. in Anthropology from Skidmore College. Immediately prior to joining the Q4A team, Erin oversaw a Youth Participatory Action Research project that brought the Smith College and Springfield, MA communities together to explore the barriers and opportunities young adults navigate as they leave high school and transition into adulthood. Erin worked in the Smith College Jandon Center for Community Engagement for five years, and before that led a variety of nonprofit organizations, mainly in Philadelphia, PA, including Neighborhood Bike Works and Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens.
Marisa DaCosta
Research Coordinator
Marisa DaCosta '22 graduated from UMass Amherst with a degree in Public Health on the pre-med track, and certificates in Spanish and Health, the International Scholars Program, and Civic Engagement and Public Service. She began her work with the Q4A Lab as an undergraduate research assistant during her freshman year, and has fallen in love with it ever since! As an undergraduate, she was a supervisor in The Boltwood Project and VP of the ALD Honor Society. She was awarded the prestigious Rising Researcher Award at UMass in 2021. Marisa stayed with the lab during her gap year and will begin medical school in the Fall of 2023. Outside of academics she loves spending as much time with family and friends as possible, traveling, trying new foods, practicing yoga, and reading a good book.
We collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders and students to implement our projects. Visit our Collaborators and Students and Alums pages to learn more.