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Amanda Folsom Amanda Folsom is a Senior Manager at AcademyHealth. She directs the AcademyHealth International Exchange Program, “Learning From Other Industrialized Health Systems,” and oversees a new portfolio of International Health Study Tours. She also works on several complementary projects, including the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Knowledge Transfer program and the MacArthur Foundation initiative on international nurse recruitment. She also serves as an advisor on Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance issues to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives program. Prior to joining AcademyHealth in February 2006, Ms. Folsom was Deputy Director for Program Evaluation and Legislation in the Maryland Medicaid program. While in Maryland Medicaid, she led several program design and implementation efforts, including the design and implementation of a Medicaid Buy-In for Employed Persons with Disabilities and the development of a proposal to implement a managed long-term care pilot program. Ms. Folsom oversaw state and federal legislative activities affecting Medicaid, and led a number of evaluation and performance measurement projects, including Maryland’s annual evaluation of its Medicaid managed care program. Prior to joining Maryland Medicaid in 2001, Ms. Folsom worked as a project associate at the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, as a research associate with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and as a community health volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Ms. Folsom is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and holds a Masters in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Tel: 202.292.6700 |
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