Steven H. Sheingold, Ph.D. is the Director of the Division of Health Financing Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Department of Health and Human Services. His areas of responsibility include economic and policy analysis of Medicare's payment systems, evaluation strategies, analysis of competition in insurance and provider markets, and economic issues related to health care and pharmaceutical markets. Prior to joining ASPE, Dr. Sheingold held several managerial and senior analyst positions within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Congressional Budget Office. As an adjunct, he has taught classes in health policy, health services research, and statistics at George Mason University and George Washington University. He has published articles concerning reimbursement systems; technology assessment and cost effectiveness analyses; value based purchasing programs; the use of evidence for health policymaking; and the impact of social risk factors on quality of care in journals such as Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Care, and the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University. Anupa Bir, ScD MPH is the Senior Director of the Center for Advanced Methods Development at RTI International. A health economist by training, much of her work has focused on the well-being of vulnerable populations and aligning incentives within various systems, including the welfare, child welfare, corrections, and health systems, to improve well-being. Dr. Bir currently leads several contracts to evaluate complex health and social policy interventions. These interventions include innovative workforce interventions to improve access to quality health care, interventions that offer financial incentives for asset development, and interventions that improve communication and family strength during stressful circumstances like incarceration and reentry. Within health care and health policy, she leads evaluations of State Innovation Models, efforts funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to accelerate the transition to value-based payment models in 11 states. She also leads meta-evaluation work to understand the lessons from state Medicaid demonstrations to improve service delivery for those with substance use disorders or serious mental illness. She holds an MPH from Yale University School of Public Health and a doctoral degree in international health economics from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
