Grantee Spotlights

Genevieve Kenney, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and has over 20 years experience conducting health policy research. Jenny has worked extensively on coverage and access issues facing low-income families and children. She has evaluated various Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs. Her SHARE project evaluates Medicaid reform initiatives in Kentucky and Idaho.

Ronald Deprez, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Executive Director of The Center for Health Policy, Planning & Research (CHPPR) at the University of New England. Dr. Deprez conducts research and consults on health policy and health systems innovations designed to improve health care access, chronic disease management, and population health status. Ron is an expert in chronic disease delivery systems. His SHARE project examines affordability, sustainability and access in Vermont’s health reform initiatives.

Elizabeth Kilbreth, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Professor in the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. Elizabeth has been conducting research and policy analysis in the area of health policy reform for over fifteen years. Her recent research interests include state and national health policy reform, health care financing and access to care, and health service utilization analysis.

Lisa Dubay, Ph.D., Sc.M., is Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests center on assessing the impacts of public policies on insurance coverage, access to care, and the health of low-income populations. Brad Herring, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and researches economic and public policy issues around health insurance. Brad has served as a Senior Economist in the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Anna Sommers, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Analyst at The Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Anna has over ten years of experience conducting health services research, with expertise in survey and quantitative analysis related to health insurance access and service use. She has conducted studies in the areas of maternal and child health, access to care, health services use and spending, eligibility for insurance programs, Medicaid quality measurement, and local initiatives to cover children in California and Florida.

Joel C. Cantor Sc.D., is the Director of the Center for State Health Policy and Professor of Public Policy at Rutgers University. Joel’s research interests focus on issues of health care financing and delivery at the state and local levels. He frequently advises the New Jersey government on health care policy, and he chairs the State’s Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission.

Carole Roan Gresenz, Ph.D., is a senior economist at RAND Corporation in Arlington, Virginia. Gresenz’s research interests include: access to health care, coverage decision-making in managed care organizations, civil justice, health care markets, and the uninsured.

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Deborah Chollet, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, D.C. She is a health economist whose research interests include state health insurance markets, public/private-sector health care reforms, the effects of state high-risk insurance pools on coverage and cost, and the economic feasibility of major state reforms. Amy Lischko, D.Sc., is an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Tom Oliver, Ph.D., M.H.A., is Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Associate Director for Health Policy at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. His research examines the processes of policy development and implementation, and how issues of technical, economic, and political feasibility shape the substantive design of health policies.