Lambrew, School alumna, selected to direct national Office of Health Reform
May 15, 2009 | |
Jeanne Lambrew, PhD, will direct the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ newly established Office of Health Reform, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced May 11. Lambrew had been appointed deputy director of the White House Office of Health Reform in December 2008. She will continue to work closely with that office in her new role as she leads the Department of Health and Human Services’ efforts to institute health reform in the coming year. Both offices were created by an April 8 Executive Order to help carry out one of President Obama’s top priorities. “The skyrocketing cost of health care is crushing families and businesses, and we must enact health reform this year,” said Secretary Sebelius. “The HHS Office of Health Reform and the White House Office of Health Reform will work in tandem to advance legislation and take immediate actions to cut costs, assure quality and affordable health care for all Americans, and guarantee Americans can choose their doctor and their health plan.” Lambrew previously was an associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. During the Clinton Administration, 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 U.S. 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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