December 17, 2008

Dr. Jeanne Lambrew

Dr. Jeanne Lambrew

Jeanne M. Lambrew, PhD, Gillings School of Global Public Health alumna, has been appointed by President- elect Barack Obama to be deputy director of the White House Office of Health Reform. In that position, she will work with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle.
Lambrew, who co-authored a book with Daschle – Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis – is a senior fellow at The Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., and associate professor of public affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. She specializes in health care and policy and conducts research on the uninsured, Medicaid, Medicare and long-term care.

Lambrew has held faculty positions at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and Georgetown University. From 1997 to 2001, she served as the program associate director for health at the Office of Management and Budget and as the senior health analyst at the National Economic Council. She was a leader in the development of the Children’s Health Insurance Program and helped develop a number of health care proposals including an initiative on long-term care. She worked at the Department of Health and Human Services during the 1993-1994 health reform efforts. Lambrew received her master’s and doctoral degrees (in 1991 and 1993, respectively) from what is now the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her bachelor’s degree is from Amherst College.

She has collaborated widely with UNC faculty through the years, including during her service as a National Research Service Award predoctoral fellow at UNC’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.
 

 

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