The University of Texas at Austin

Jeanne M. Lambrew joined the LBJ School faculty in the summer of 2007 as associate professor of public affairs. She specializes in health care and policy and conducts research on the uninsured, Medicaid, Medicare, and long-term care. Dr. Lambrew is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Currently, Lambrew is serving as Director of the Health and Human Services Office of Health Reform.

Previously, Dr. Lambrew was an associate professor at the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Lambrew worked on health policy at the White House as the program associate director for health at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and as the senior health analyst at the National Economic Council. In these roles, she helped coordinate health policy development, evaluated legislative proposals, and conducted and managed analyses and cost estimates with OMB, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Treasury Department, the Labor Department and other relevant agencies. She was the White House lead on drafting and implementing the Children's Health Insurance Program and helped develop the president's Medicare reform plan, initiative on long-term care, and other health care proposals. She also worked at the Department of Health and Human Services during the 1993-1994 health reform efforts, and coordinated analyses of budget proposals in 1995. Prior to serving at the White House, Dr. Lambrew was an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University (1996).

Dr. Lambrew received her master’s degree and Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and bachelor's degree from Amherst College.

Education

Ph.D., M.S.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; B.A., Amherst College

Current Positions

Director of the Health and Human Services Office of Health Reform; Sid Richardson Fellow, LBJ School of Public Affairs; senior fellow, Center for American Progress

Previous Positions

Associate professor, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University Medical Center (2001-2007); Associate Director for Health, Personnel, and Veterans, Office of Management and Budget (2000-2001); Senior Health Policy Analyst, National Economic Council, The White House (1997-2000)

Co-author with J. Gruber, “Money and Mandates: The Relative
Effects of Key Policy Levers in Expanding Health Insurance Coverage to All Americans,” Inquiry (2007); co-author with DE Shalala, “Federal Health Policy Response to Katrina: What It Was and What It Could Have Been,” JAMA (2006); co-author with J. Podesta and T. Shaw, “Forging Change in Challenging Times: A Plan for Extending and Improving Health Care,” Health Affairs (2005); co-author, “Chapter 5: Current status of non-metropolitan nurse supply and distribution in the United States,” Study of Models to Meet Rural Health Care Needs Through Mobilization of Health Professions Education and Services Resources (U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, 1992); co-author, “Iron County Michigan case study,” The Strategies and Environments of America's Small, Rural Hospitals (The Hospital Research and Educational Trust, 1992)

Health Care Policy
Long-Term Care
Medicaid
Medicare