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Julie Hudman

Julie Hudman

Dr. Julie Anne Hudman is a public policy expert with over two decades of experience in the analysis, development and execution of social programs and policies with an emphasis on health care finance strategies and policies.  Since moving to Mumbai in 2012, she has been is the Director of Research at IndiaSpend, a start-up non-profit organization that builds on open data to report on and analyze a wide range of public policy issues in India, with the larger objective of fostering better governance, transparency and accountability.   In addition to creating the organization’s first strategic plan, she creates and directs data analysis, content development, and writing of articles. Over the past year, Dr. Hudman has also worked with SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action) where she focused on developing their public policy work efforts in order to better improve communication of their successful interventions to improve the health outcomes of women and children residing in Mumbai’s slums. She is also a Member of the Board of Studies for the Masters Degree in Public Policy and a Visiting Professor at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai.

Prior to moving to India in early 2012, Dr. Hudman has worked in various leadership capacities to improve access to quality health care.  From 2006 till 2010, she was the top health care advisor to Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty.  After two years in the Mayor’s office, where she was responsible for providing direction and guidance for the City’s seven health and human service agencies, she was confirmed by the City Council as Director of Washington, D.C.’s Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF).  The Agency’s primary mandate was to improve health outcomes by providing access to comprehensive, cost-effective and quality healthcare services.  As Director of DHCF, Dr. Hudman oversaw a budget of more than USD $2 billion (including DC’s Medicaid program) to provide health insurance coverage to over 225,000 of the District’s residents.

Earlier in her career, from 1991 till 2004, Dr. Hudman worked in research and academic settings, as well as state governments. At the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation she was Associate Director of The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured for almost 8 years, and prior to that worked as a researcher at George Washington University’s Center for Health Policy Research. She began her extensive health policy career in state health programs at the state level in Oklahoma, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 

In between these roles, Dr. Hudman has worked as a senior-level consultant providing strategic guidance and analysis on health care and social policy issues to a wide range of clients including foundations, NGOs, private sector businesses, health care providers, federal and state governments.

Dr. Hudman received her Ph.D from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, her M.P.P. from Georgetown University and her B.A. from University of Oklahoma. 

 

 

 

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