As Health Policy Practice Area Lead at HSR, Renee Schwalberg couples solid qualitative and quantitative analytic skills with the ability to present research findings in a format that is readily understood by professional and lay readers alike. Her project work focuses on maternal and child health (MCH), children with special needs, and managed care.
Ms. Schwalberg is the project director for HSR's MCH Information Resource Center, which was established to strengthen the ability of MCH policymakers at all levels to gather, analyze, and use data for effective decisionmaking. She also directs the development of chartbooks to display key findings of major child health surveys, such as the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and the National Survey of Children's Health. As a staff member of HSR's National Policy Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs, she has conducted research on how to improve systems of care for these children in a managed care environment. She has also conducted numerous studies of State Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) to provide health insurance to low-income children and served as the associate director of a project to conduct focus groups on SCHIP and Medicaid in nine States as part of the national evaluation of SCHIP.
Ms. Schwalberg has a bachelor's degree in sociology and history from Yale University and a master's degree in public health from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
