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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