National Health Policy Forum

About The Forum

Staff


Judith Miller Jones, Director
202/872-1469, jmjones@gwu.edu
 
Sally Coberly, PhD, Deputy Director
202/872-4034, scoberly@gwu.edu
Program focus: private markets, employer purchasing
 




Sharron Bell, Senior Financial Assistant
202/872-4031, srbell@gwu.edu
 
Laura A. Dummit, Principal Policy Analyst
202/872-4037, ladummit@gwu.edu
Program focus: Medicare, physician payment, prospective payment systems, prescription drug costs and spending, specialty hospitals, health care spending
 
Amy Erhardt, Research Assistant
202/872-3974, aerhardt@gwmail.gwu.edu
 
Diane L. Harvey, Manager, Systems & Operations
202/872-0294, dlharvey@gwu.edu
 
Marcia Howard, Program Associate
202/835-0022, mhoward@gwu.edu
 
Julie La, Program Associate
202/872-3973, juliela@gwu.edu
 
Kathryn Linehan, Principal Policy Analyst
202/872-0238, klinehan@gwu.edu
Program focus: private insurance markets, and post-acute and long-term care payment systems
 
Monique Martineau, Director, Publications and Online Communications
202/872-0159, moniquem@gwu.edu
 
Judith D. Moore, Senior Fellow
202/872-0292, jdmoore@gwu.edu
Program focus: Medicaid and other state-administered health and social service programs, poor and vulnerable population groups
 
Michele J. Orza, ScD, Principal Policy Analyst
202/872-4035, morza@gwu.edu
Program focus: evidence-based health practice and policy, public health infrastructure and systems, global health, health science and technology
 
Carol V. O'Shaughnessy, Principal Policy Analyst
202/872-0239, coshaugh@gwu.edu
Program focus: aging services, home and community-based long-term care
 
Christie Provost Peters, Principal Policy Analyst
202/872-0051, cppeters@gwu.edu
Program focus: Medicaid, special needs populations, dual eligibles for Medicaid and Medicare, disability, and long-term care
 
Moira Muccio Secrest, Manager, Fiscal Operations
202/872-4033, moira@gwu.edu
 
Lisa Sprague, Principal Policy Analyst
202/872-4030, lsprague@gwu.edu
Program focus: private markets, quality of care, information technology, chronic and long-term care, military and veteran's health care
 
Mary Ellen Stahlman, Principal Policy Analyst
202/872-1395, mes@gwu.edu
Program focus: Medicare, Medicare prescription drug benefit, prescription drug pricing, cost containment and delivery, Medicare Advantage
 
Jessamy Taylor, Principal Policy Analyst
202/872-4032, jrtaylor@gwu.edu
Program focus: safety net, access to care for vulnerable populations
 


The Forum employs an array of health policy consultants whose work enables the Forum to widen the range of topics it can address. Key advisors include:

William J. Scanlon, PhD, Consultant
william.j.scanlon@verizon.net