Jeanne Lambrew

Jeanne Lambrew is an associate professor of public affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where she teaches health policy and conducts policy-relevant research on the uninsured, Medicaid, Medicare, and long-term care. Her primary focus is on health reform. She is also senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Previously, she was an associate professor at George Washington University.

Dr. Lambrew worked on health policy at the White House from 1997 through 2000, 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. Prior to serving at the White House, Lambrew was an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University (1996) and a special assistant at the Department of Health and Human Services (1993-95).

She served on the board of AcademyHealth from 2003-07, is the past chair of the Coalition for Health Services Research, and is on CBO's Health Advisory Panel. 

Dr. Lambrew received her masters 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.