Samantha Lang, MPH, CAPM

Senior Consultant

Health Management Associates

New York, NY

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Samantha Lang is an experienced public health professional with more than a decade of project management, research, outreach, and operational experience. She has practical knowledge of health policy, harm reduction, housing, and the criminal-legal system, and she is passionate about promoting health equity. 

During her career she has worked in behavioral, reproductive, home care, senior, and low-income health service environments. With Health Management Associates (HMA), Samantha has also conducted housing-related market assessments and comparative analysis of the health-related social needs elements of 1115 waivers. She has extensive experience in qualitative research and data collection, policy analysis, grant and report writing, outreach, engagement, and project management.  

Before joining HMA, Samantha served as both a research coordinator and a program manager for the HEALing Communities Study based out of Columbia University, a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded study with the goal of reducing opioid overdose fatalities in 67 communities by 40% in three years. While there, she provided organizational support to community coalitions working to implement study interventions, and project management for the Columbia research team. 

Samantha has worked with stakeholders across the substance use disorder sector, from consumers to providers and policy makers. Samantha has also worked with the Health Home program as a patient intake coordinator, helping connect patients to community-based resources, and as a research assistant for Gynuity Health Projects with a focus on reproductive healthcare. Her other areas of focus include justice-involved care, health equity work, and projects related to social determinants of health and substance use disorder. 

Samantha earned her Master of Public Health from The City University of New York School of Public Health with a concentration in health policy and management. She also has a bachelor’s degree in English from Wesleyan University, and she is a Certified Associate in Project Management. 

Samantha grew up in Brooklyn, and currently lives in Beacon, New York with her husband, son, and their two dogs.