Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets (CDOM): Staff Biographies

Peggy McNamara, M.S.P.H.

Peggy McNamara, M.S.P.H., has research interests that include international health care organization and financing issues, and U.S. employers' practices with respect to health care purchasing. Previous research has focused on value-based purchasing, hospital uncompensated care, Medicaid enrollment, and emergency department utilization patterns.

Immediately before her arrival at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Peggy was a Health and Child Survival Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Before that, Peggy was a Fellow at the Eastern Health Board in Dublin, Ireland. Other work experience includes managing research dissemination programs with the Association for Health Services Research and policy analysis and applied research with a variety of private and public sector organizations at both the national and State levels, including Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, American Hospital Association, New Jersey State Department of Health, North Carolina State Division of Medical Assistance, and the Select Committee on Aging of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Peggy earned her Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was awarded a U.S. Public Health Service Traineeship. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, where she was awarded a Pew Fellowship.

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