I work with foundations, public agencies, health plans, and community providers to design, fund, and evaluate programs that improve health for Medi-Cal members and underserved communities.
Get in touch →I'm a public health and health policy researcher and strategist. For over a decade, I've helped California foundations, public agencies, health plans, and safety-net providers design, pay for, and evaluate programs that improve health for Medi-Cal members and underserved communities.
Most recently, I was a Director at JSI, where I led the firm's California portfolio and team. My work there centered on advancing health equity, bringing behavioral health and primary care together, Medi-Cal changes like CalAIM and Whole Person Care, and working across systems in California.
I do my best work on problems with many moving parts and many people who care about the outcome. I listen closely, gather the evidence, and turn what I learn into clear recommendations that funders and the people doing the work can act on. I can lead a project from the first question through to putting it into practice, or step in with focused support wherever it's needed.
Before JSI, I worked in global health, HIV prevention, and harm reduction with organizations including the Harvard School of Public Health, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Open Society Foundations, and Doctors Without Borders.
Outside of work, you can find me spending time with my husband and two young kids, running (slowly), and cooking for my family and friends.
I directed the program office for this three-year statewide initiative to bring behavioral health and primary care closer together. I brought eight state associations and consumer groups together around a shared policy agenda, ran a learning lab for five payer-provider teams, and led the assessment of the initiative's progress.
As Social Health Lead for this partnership of the California Department of Health Care Services, Kaiser Permanente, the California Primary Care Association, and regional associations, I helped 32 community health centers strengthen their population health work for Medi-Cal members.
I designed the sustainability plan and return-on-investment analyses for Alameda County's Whole Person Care pilot, part of California's effort to coordinate health, behavioral health, and social services for Medi-Cal members with complex needs.
Landscape scans, needs assessments, and community-based research that help organizations see the full picture and plan for change.
Assessing systems of care, designing models that bring primary care and behavioral health together, and guiding programs focused on substance use, homelessness, and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.
Making sense of Medi-Cal programs like CalAIM, Whole Person Care, and Health Homes, along with population health management, financial analysis, and sustainability planning to keep good work funded.
Process and outcome evaluations that balance rigor and flexibility to show what's working, what isn't, and why, plus measures that organizations can keep tracking over time.
Bringing people together through convenings, learning collaboratives, and communities of practice, and guiding teams through strategic planning.
A plain-language guide to the federal Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic model: how it works, how it's funded, early results in California, and what it will take to sustain it.
An assessment of San Francisco's system of care for people experiencing homelessness who also have mental health or substance use needs, with recommendations for where new investment could help most. Its findings were announced at a press conference with the Mayor of San Francisco.
An overview of methods for identifying patients at rising risk of high health care needs and costs, and of interventions designed to support them before their conditions escalate.
Guidance for community partnerships that want to address trauma and build resilience, drawing together health care, public health, social services, and other sectors.
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