Katya Seligman

Katya Seligman is a senior managing consultant with more than 15 years of experience overseeing projects focused on improving health care delivery and advancing health equity. She specializes in health equity, technical assistance (TA), health promotion, and project operations. Seligman leads and provides equity-focused research and TA and develops tools to address social determinants of health (SDOH).

Currently, Seligman directs the Health Center Consolidated Research and Evaluation project, a five-year contract with the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the Health Resources and Services Administration. This project develops short- and long-term research studies to demonstrate the value, capacity, and impact of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Health Center Program, and to disseminate its findings. Previously, Seligman was the deputy project director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) Equity Technical Assistance Center which provided HHS-wide trainings, convened peer learning groups, partnered with lived experiences experts, delivered individualized TA to HHS offices, conducted evaluations, and developed tools. She also served as the deputy project director for the National Association of County and City Health Officials’ Getting Further Faster initiative, which provided capacity building, training, and TA to advance health equity and improve chronic disease conditions for multisector community coalitions addressing SDOH, and for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s Learning Systems for Accountable Care Organizations.

Before joining Mathematica in 2017, Seligman was a senior program manager at the Health Research and Educational Trust, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association. In this role, she led population health initiatives, including projects addressing SDOH, eliminating health care disparities, and enhancing partnerships. Seligman holds an M.P.H. with a concentration in community health from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a certified Project Management Professional.