Area Lead, Community Health and Equity
Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Andrea Thoumi, MPP, MSc is Area Lead, Community Health and Equity and Faculty Director, Health Equity Education at the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy. She also holds a secondary appointment as Consulting Associate with the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Andrea combines expertise in health policy, health financing, health equity, and community health to mitigate systemic inequities that Latine communities experience. She also serves as a Core Faculty Member and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-Margolis, Executive Team Member for the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19 (LATIN-19) in North Carolina, and Vice Chair for AcademyHealth’s Health Equity Interest Group. She is the recipient of AcademyHealth’s Honorable Mention, Alice S. Hersh Emerging Leader Award (2023) and Disparities Interest Group Early-Stage Distinguished Investigator Award (2021) and a recipient of the Duke Presidential Award (2020) for exceptional service to the Duke community.
Previously, she oversaw Duke-Margolis’s global health portfolio spanning value-based care, universal health coverage, primary health care, reproductive health and innovations to increase access to health services. Prior to Duke, Andrea was a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution, managing research on global accountable care and alternative payment models for oncology and diabetes. Previously, she worked as a Senior Analyst at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), conducting monitoring and evaluation for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria HIV/AIDS programs in Argentina and Belize. Andrea has also consulted for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, and the World Bank on health equity, financial protection, and health innovation. She holds a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University, an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and BA in Community Health and International Relations from Tufts University.
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Monday, April 8, 2024
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time