Assistant Director
- Linda Bilheimer
Deputy Assistant Directors
- Melinda B. Buntin (Health)
- James Baumgardner (Health, income security, employment, and long-term modeling)
Unit Chiefs
- Gregory Acs (Income security and employment)
- Joyce M. Manchester (Long-Term Modeling Group)
Senior Advisor
- Jessica S. Banthin (Health insurance modeling)
Division Administrative Assistant
- Ronald L. Moore
Analysts
- Michael Levine (Research assistant)
- Nabeel A. Alsalam (Education and labor markets)
- William J. Carrington (Income security and labor markets)
- Anna E. Cook (Prescription drugs, pharmaceutical industry)
- Molly W. Dahl (Income security, labor markets)
- Noelia J. Duchovny (Medicare payments to physicians, Medicaid, obesity, disability)
- Stuart A. Hagen (Private health insurance, uninsured, long-term care, medical malpractice, Medicaid)
- Paul Jacobs (Private health insurance, uninsured)
- Jimmy Jin (Research assistant)
- Noah P. Meyerson (Long-term Social Security and budget projections)
- Alexandra L. Minicozzi (Private health insurance, uninsured)
- Lyle Nelson (Medicare, State Children's Health Insurance Program, uninsured)
- Romain Parsad (Computer modeling, survey analysis)
- Allison Percy (Health insurance, health IT)
- Charles Pineles-Mark (Model development)
- Jonathan A. Schwabish (Labor force and earnings micro-modeling)
- Michael S. Simpson (Model development)
- Julie Somers (Health provider and payer markets, health modeling, prescription drugs)
- Julie H. Topoleski (Social Security, Medicare, long-term health micro-modeling)
- Christopher Zogby (Computer modeling, survey analysis)
- Tamara Hayford (Health policy, prescription drugs)

Health and Human Resources Division

Dealing with some of today's most important social policy issues

CBO's Health and Human Resources Division injects nonpartisan economic analyses into public policy debates about some of the most complicated policies and programs that affect the health and well-being of Americans. The division's staff research and write reports for the Congress, draft testimony to be delivered at Congressional hearings, perform detailed analyses of proposed legislation, and assess the impact of various legislative initiatives on the private sector.

In recent years, the division has analyzed some of the most hotly debated domestic policy issues before the Congress:

Major proposals to change health insurance and the health care system
The extent of health insurance coverage for children and adults
The role of technological change in the growth of health care spending
Evidence on the costs and benefits of health information technology
The long-term financial status of Medicare and Social Security
Modifications to Social Security to accommodate the aging of the baby-boom generation
Trends in the variability of individual earnings and households' income over time
Changes in the sources of income of low-income families with children

The Health and Human Resources Division is composed mainly of applied microeconomists who are interested in health policy, labor market analysis, and income security policy. Most have Ph.D.s in economics or public policy. The division also includes people with bachelor's degrees who are preparing to do further graduate work in economics, public policy, or medicine.