Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets (CDOM): Staff Biographies
Cindy Brach, M.P.P.
Cindy Brach, M.P.P., conducts and oversees research on managed care arrangements, with a particular emphasis on public
policies, children, Medicaid, cultural competency, conceptualization and classification, and mental health.
Immediately
before coming to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Cindy was the Associate Director for Research and Analysis at the Mental Health Policy
Resource Center, where she directed mental health and health policy research projects with an emphasis on managed care.
She has written numerous monographs and book chapters, such as Designing Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Capitation Programs: A Managed Care Guide for State and Local Officials and Managed Care Challenges for Children
and Family Services, and published in such journals as Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved and Health
Affairs. Her earlier health and human services experience includes serving as a welfare reform consultant and provider
of technical assistance, a State-level administrator, and a municipal policy analyst.
Ms. Brach received her Master of Public
Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a Ph.D. candidate.
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