Jessica Laird is a senior health researcher with expertise in quantitative methods. For the past decade, she has designed analytic evaluations of large health initiatives.
Laird is currently the deputy impacts lead for the Evaluation of Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model, an initiative that aims to support people with dementia and their caregivers through comprehensive, coordinated care and services. Laird has previously worked as the impacts regression lead for the Making Care Primary (MCP) model, the synthesis lead for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model, and the impacts lead for the Dental Transformation Initiative in California.
Laird, who joined Mathematica in 2017, holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
This report identifies gaps in the availability of programs and services to meet member needs for home and community-based services and long-term services and supports now and in the next decade, limitations in provider capacity to meet member needs and coordinate care, barriers impeding members’ ability to find and obtain high-quality person-centered care, and problems stemming from inefficient program administration and operations.
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