Dana Jean-Baptiste

Dana Jean-Baptiste is a health researcher who specializes in evaluations of service delivery and payment reform and in technical assistance projects focused on leading and developing content for ACO learning systems.

Jean-Baptiste has substantive experience evaluating health care programs. She has conducted implementation evaluations of programs involving care coordination, shared decision making, and health information technology, where she focused on assessing innovative changes to models of health care delivery. She has overseen interview guide development, lead interviews, analyzed and synthesized qualitative data, and written reports as part of two large multi-year evaluations of Innovation Center demonstrations.

As the project director of the VBC Learning System contract, she leads a team that provides learning support to participants of the ACO REACH and Kidney Care Choices alternative payment models as well as among ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program  The learning support includes: 1) convening various virtual and in-person learning events, such as webinars, affinity groups, virtual learning collaboratives, and conferences, and 2) providing targeted technical assistance on the implementation of benefit enhancement and developing written products, such as tip sheets and strategy summaries.

Jean-Baptiste, who joined Mathematica in 2014, received a master’s of public health (with a concentration in health policy) from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. Before joining Mathematica, she served as a consultant to health care organizations, focusing on health care delivery transformation and organizational change management.