Jeanne Lambrew

Jeanne Lambrew is Director of Health Care Reform and Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation and former Commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

Previously, Dr. Lambrew served as a Senior Health Policy Analyst at the National Economic Council, where she conducted and coordinated health policy analysis on Medicaid, Medicare, and new health initiatives. Working under the direction of the National Economic Council Chair and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council, her responsibilities included policy development, evaluation of legislative proposals, and coordination of policy analysis and cost estimates across the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Treasury Department, the Labor Department, and other relevant agencies.

Dr. Lambrew also served as an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University, where she researched managed care for low-income families and the roles of Medicare and Medicaid in long-term care. From 1993 to 1995, she served as a special assistant coordinating Medicaid and state studies at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Lambrew holds her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.