Boris Volkov, PhD
Dr. Boris Volkov is a research associate and assistant professor of evaluation studies at the Center for Rural Health in the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Grand Forks. In his position, Dr. Volkov is responsible for program evaluation, evaluation capacity building, and research in federal, state, and local public health projects.
Prior to joining the Center for Rural Health, Dr. Volkov has held numerous professional positions which have given him 11 years of research and program/personnel evaluation experience, seven years of teaching experience, and five years of administrative experience. He has been involved with a number of research and evaluation studies on education, science, technology, poverty reduction, community building, and communication programs and projects, as well as evaluation capacity building in organizations. Most recently, Dr. Volkov was a research associate for the National Science Foundation (NSF) project, ‘Beyond Evaluation Use: Determining the Effect of Project Participation on the Influence of NSF Program Evaluations.’
A native of Russia, Dr. Volkov is fluent in Russian and English. His voluntary experience includes work with the Neighborhood House in St. Paul, Minn., and the University of Minnesota, Minnesota International Center, and Intercultural Training Center, all in Minneapolis, Minn. He has professional affiliations with the American Evaluation Association, of which he is co-founder and former program chair of the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building TIG, and Minnesota Evaluation Association. In 2006, he was a finalist in the Juran Doctoral Award Competition at the University of Minnesota J. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality.
Dr. Volkov holds a doctorate in Evaluation Studies with a certificate in Human Resource Development from the University of Minnesota. He also holds master’s degrees in Educational Policy and Administration (Comparative and International Development Education) and Psychology from the University of Minnesota and Tashkent State University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, respectively.
Established in 1980, the Center for Rural Health is one of the nation's most experienced rural health organizations. It has developed a full complement of programs to assist researchers, educators, policymakers, health care providers and, most importantly, rural residents to address changing rural environments by identifying and researching rural health issues, analyzing health policy, strengthening local capabilities, developing community-based alternatives, and advocating for rural concerns.
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