Elizabeth Lukanen, M.P.H., Senior Research Fellow

Ms. Lukanen is the Deputy Director of the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) a National Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is operated out of SHADAC. SHARE supports the systematic evaluation of state health care reform activities. The findings of the program will help state policy makers identify approaches to health reform that are right for their state by assembling evidence from a wide variety of reform approaches. SHARE will run for four year, awarding $7 million in grant funding over that term. Prior to joining SHADAC, Ms. Lukanen worked as Senior Research Economist in the Health Economics Program (HEP) at the Minnesota Department of Health. Ms. Lukanen holds a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from McGill University.

Phone: 
612-626-1537
Email: 
elukanen@umn.edu