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Cathy Schoen, M.S., is a Health Policy Analysis Consultant and Senior Scholar in Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine. Reflecting upon her economic degrees at the undergraduate level from Smith College and at the graduate degree from Boston College, Schoen's various initiatives and publications are dedicated to health policy and health economics. She authored many publications on health system/insurance performance on the national and international level. Schoen coauthored the book Health and the War on Poverty with Karen Davis, analyzing the possible implications of the American health care system on the poor. Her work primarily included overseeing and managing survey, research, and policy initiatives to track health system performance.

'''Professional Experience ''' Schoen started off her career as a research associate in the Economics Department of the First National City Bank, in New York, NY from June 1970 to August 1971. In the summer of 1973, she worked as an economist in a Brandeis Labor Market Study, at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. A year later Schoen worked as an economist in the Office of Research and Statistics at the Social Security Administration in Washington, DC. She then worked as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at Boston College (1974-1975), and a Research Fellow then Research Associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC (1975-1977).To 1979, Schoen worked as a Health Economist in the National Health Insurance Task Force and a Director of Medicaid and Ambulatory Care Reimbursement Project in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/Health at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Washington, DC. For the next 8 years, Schoen worked as a Research and Policy Director and Special Assistant to President Carter in the Service Employees International Union in Washington, DC. Alongside multiple faculty and research roles in various universities, Schoen served as the Vice President Policy and Research, and the Executive Director of the Fund Task Force of the Future of Health Insurance at the Commonwealth Fund in New York, NY from 1995 to 2005. She then served as the Research Director of the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High-Performance Health System until the commission ended in March 2013. From 2016 to 2016, she served as the Executive Director Commonwealth Fund Cost Control Initiative and Visiting Fellow at the NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. Her most recent role as of July 2016, is being a Health Policy Analysis Consultant and Senior Scholar in Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine.

Education

Cathy Schoen received her B.A. in Economics at Smith College in 1970. She then received her M.S./M.A., A.B.D. Ph.D. in Economics at Boston College in 1973.

References:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/person/cathy-schoen

https://www.cathyschoen.org/

https://www.cathyschoen.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/schoen_cv.pdf