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California, United States

California, United States

• Conducted a statistical investigation of the hospitals in Monterey County, using HCAI’s Hospital Financial data and Patient-level administrative data, to determine their respective performance on pricing.
• Independently led the office’s research stream focused on high health care cost regions within California, including the development of county-level analysis—via R—of Covered California Premium data and RAND hospital.
• Prepared internal memos and recommendations on pressing policy issues for executive leadership needed to be briefed on, such as HCAI’s Patient Discharge Data (PDD), Maryland’s patient attribution methodology.
• Managed stakeholder engagement for key workgroups the FHC Hospital Spending Measurement workgroup, OHCA’s Proposed Regulations Workshop on THCE, and the Health Care Affordability Board and Advisory Committee.
• Prepared analysis and data visualizations—via Excel—for the AC subcommittee to aid in the member selection process.

Sacramento, California Area

• Commissioned by Sacramento County’s Department of Health Services to analyze publicly available data for the county’s five Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans and generate a weighted score for each to allow for evaluation of.
• Conducted background research and literature reviews to compose a policy brief on California’s Policy Alternatives post-repeal of the Federal Individual Mandate.
• Counseled California Health Care Foundation’s CEO with an overview of the top health and Medicaid issues in the states of Texas & California, in the form of a narrative memo and an accompanying research document.
• Led the methodology and implementation of a regression analysis–via Stata—of California education data to assist research on determining which California school districts are English Learners are doing better than in.
• Crafted analytic tools that measured the impact on affordability of three distinct subsidy strategies to support the decision-making process of the San Francisco City Options Program.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Conducted a qualitative analysis of responses garnered through Chairman Richard Neal’s 2022 Request for Information from health care organizations across the nation regarding their work to combat the climate crisis and.
• Assisted in the development and drafting of a series of briefs published by the Committee on Ways & Means focused on the U.S. health system and the climate crisis.
• Drafted summaries of proposed legislation for committee staff and participated in a bill markup process of the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2022.

• Developed a research design proposal and conducted data analysis in collaboration with senior staff for Utah’s section 1115 Medicaid waiver demonstration project, which evaluated impact of the Medicaid coverage.
• Analyzed Medicaid healthcare claims data through SQL to evaluate trends in utilization, finding that emergency services plummeted in April of 2020 due to the pandemic and then rebounded to pre-pandemic levels thereafter.

Sacramento, California

• Participated in the modeling, development, and implementation of California’s novel state subsidy program to expand access to affordable healthcare coverage, including crafting a state-based premium tax credit.
• Initiated and helped lead a cross-unit workgroup to shape enrollment strategy during COVID-19 pandemic, specifically, researching coverage scenarios to provide guidance on the consumer experience in navigating program.
• Analyzed IBM healthcare claims data to evaluate trends in high-cost care and overutilization.
• Established daily quality assurance protocols through the development of programming logic in SQL to ensure the accuracy and integrity of internal data.
• Created data visualizations in Tableau to synthesize and track current policy issues faced by our enrollees.
• Communicated directly with legal counsel to provide cleaned and compiled health insurance enrollment data through Stata to outside academics and researchers.

San Francisco, California

• Engaged in every facet of the research process, including formulating research questions, analyzing healthcare data, examining federal regulations and academic papers, and composing report text.
• Conducted quantitative research relating to the ACA’s exchange marketplaces, leading to partial authorship of two separate issue briefs tracking the impact of key policy and legislative changes on ACA insurance premiums.
• Published reports on the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker website exploring trends in the performance of the U.S. healthcare system.
• Collected and analyzed data from various sources (OECD, IHME, CDC, MEPS, NHIS) using Excel and R to create the Health System Dashboard on the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker website.

Greater Boston Area

• Coordinated meetings between policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to spur policy-relevant research on strategies that aim to make health care delivery in the United States more effective and efficient.
• Consulted with health care organizations and policymakers to refine their research projects, reviewing research methodologies and techniques to identify potential problems that might jeopardize the validity of a.
• Assisted with strategizing and executing outreach activities, including outreach to government agencies and healthcare organizations.

Merced, California Area

• Revamped the office’s constituent outreach and legislative response system.
• Crafted 62 legislative response letters on 60 separate pieces of legislation that were mailed to over 1,000 constituents in the 21st district.
• Created a Select Committee on Homelessness in Merced County and Stanislaus County.
• Researched extensively on policy issues for the Assembly Member. The focus of my research was Med-Cal ambulance reimbursement rates, homelessness, and paid maternity leave.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Overhauled San Francisco’s Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS/HIV (HOPWA) program through the creation of a database on all the HOPWA properties.
• Was in frequent dialogue with all of the HOPWA property developers as I created an informational survey for the developers to fill out and from there was able to create an excel database on all of the HOPWA properties.
• Involved on the policy level of establishing the guidelines and qualifications for the +Housing list.
• Began working on a new standards of care document on Residential Home Health Care, specifically, jump starting the process of relabeling Residential Care Facilities for the Chronically Ill (RCFCI) as transitional.

Master Of Public Policy, Health Policy Analysis

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Public Health And Public Policy