Anissa Lambertino, PhD

Senior Consultant

Health Management Associates

Chicago, IL

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Annisa Lambertino has more than 20 years of experience in public health research. She has worked directly with state Medicaid directors, managed care organizations, community partner executives, and healthcare providers analyzing and reporting on complex data related to health, behavioral health, substance use, care access, housing and other social determinants of health (SDOHs).

At Health Management Associates, Anissa has served as the data and GIS analyst for city, county, and state level projects that illustrate the geographic distribution of housing instability, homelessness, prevalence and treatment of severe mental health and substance use disorder, as well as crisis provider network adequacy. Anissa is particularly skilled at utilizing sophisticated geo-mapping and dashboarding software to make data understandable, approachable, and actionable for the end user.

Anissa also has expertise in acquiring and developing publicly and subscription-based secondary data sources and has led multiple community health needs assessments, transformation, and Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) application projects. As lead data analyst for these PACE projects, Anissa uses geospatial imagery to inform demographic projections, chronic disease prevalence, mortality rates, social determinants of health, health equity, and time and distance estimates to healthcare providers.

For Minnesota Medicaid and Massachusetts MassHealth, Anissa played a key role in the analysis of the health insurance programs’ claims, determining the association of social determinates of health with adverse health outcomes and costs among Medicaid and dually eligible beneficiaries in long-term services and supports (LTSS) and behavioral health programs.

Anissa earned a doctorate in epidemiology with a specialization in occupational and environmental epidemiology and a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in health science and sociology from Benedictine University.