The national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows at the National Academy of Medicine is pleased to announce the placements of the 2017-2018 fellows!
This program provides the nation’s most comprehensive learning experience at the nexus of health, science, and policy in Washington, D.C. It is an outstanding opportunity for exceptional mid-career health professionals and behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health and health policy. To learn more about the fellowship, visit the program website.
Carrie Colla, PhD – Office of the Democratic Leader Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Carrie Colla is a health economist and an associate professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, New Hampshire. Her research focuses on physician payment, health insurance markets, and insurance benefit design and is aimed at policies that will improve the quality, accessibility, and cost of health care. Colla teaches microeconomics and health policy at Dartmouth College. Much of Colla’s collaborative and investigator-initiated research focuses on examining health system performance and the effectiveness of payment and delivery system reforms, including accountable care organizations (ACOs). She has been the principal investigator for the annual National Survey of ACOs since its inception in 2012. Read more>>
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Robin Fleming, PhD, RN – Office of Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Robin Fleming is an interdisciplinary researcher, author, program developer, and policy expert in the fields of health and education. Her areas of expertise are in school health and its capacity to reduce health and academic disparities, and in the integration of health and education systems to improve population health. Fleming’s most recent position was with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Washington State’s education agency. She served as health services program administrator, providing leadership, policy guidance, consultation, training, and professional development to school nurses and others in the state’s 295 school districts. She worked with state and national legislators, policy makers, and community agencies to inform and strengthen Washington State’s health reform efforts; helped to maintain school nurse funding in Washington State’s legislative and gubernatorial budgets; embedded school nurse leaders in the state’s Accountable Communities of Health Care network; and developed a school nurse case-management program for low-income students with asthma. Read more>>
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Caprice Knapp, PhD – House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Majority)
Caprice Knapp is director of the Pan Institutional Network for Global Health at The Pennsylvania State University. She is also a research associate professor in the Health Policy and Administration (HPA) program at The Pennsylvania State University and a visiting professor in the College of Public Health at the University of the Philippines, Manila. She conducts investigator-initiated and collaborative research in health care delivery and outcomes. In 2016, she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellowship and became a fellow at the Freiburg (Germany) Institute for Advanced Studies. From 2005 to 2015, she was a faculty member in the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy at the University of Florida (UF). Knapp also worked in the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting and the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing in Colorado as a budget and policy analyst. Read more>>
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Allison Myers, PhD, MPH – Office of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Allison Myers is the co-founder and executive director of Counter Tools, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to advancing place-based public health. Launched in 2012 as a start-up in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Counter Tools contributes data-collection and -visualization technology, training, and technical assistance to retail-focused tobacco prevention policy enactment in 18 states. The organization is developing and pilots place-based health promotion programs in the areas of alcohol, food, marijuana, and physical activity. Read more>>
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Karin Rhodes, MD, MS – Office of Senator Tina Smith (D-MN)
Karin Rhodes is an emergency physician, a health services researcher, the vice president for care management design and evaluation in the Office of Population Health at Northwell Health, and professor of emergency medicine and psychiatry at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in Hempstead, New York. She was founding director of the Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research at the Perelman School of Medicine and a senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she led a health system-wide initiative to improve transitions in care and continues to have adjunct faculty appointments. Rhodes currently works with a multidisciplinary team from the University of Pennsylvania to evaluate the use of patient video narratives and complementary pain reduction strategies to improve provider-patient informed decision-making and to prevent opioid abuse. Read more>>
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Reginald Tucker-Seeley, ScD – Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Reginald Tucker-Seeley is the Edward L. Schneider assistant professor of gerontology in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California (USC). He leads the Tucker-Seeley Research Lab at USC, which conducts research focused on social determinants of health and health disparities across the life course. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, Tucker-Seeley was an assistant professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Current research in the Tucker-Seeley Research Lab focuses on the measurement and influence of financial well-being across the cancer continuum. Read more>>
