Leigh Ann Haley, MPP, PMP, is a Project Director/Senior Research Analyst for the Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR). She is currently managing multiple projects, including an evaluation of CalAIM’s PATH initiative for the California Department of Health Care Services, an evaluation of Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Health Center Program, and an evaluation of Los Angeles County’s Parks After Dark program.
Her past projects with the HEER program include evaluations of Whole Person Care, Health Homes Programs, and Housing for a Healthy California, all of which are programs coordinating care for high utilizing and high-cost Medi-Cal enrollees. Her primary area of focus for these evaluations were qualitative analysis of survey and interview data.
Prior to joining UCLA CHPR, Haley was an evaluation assistant at the University of Southern California (USC) for a CDC REACH Demonstration Project, which promoted health equity through community-based interventions to reduce hypertension and obesity for racial and ethnic minority residents in South Los Angeles.
Haley completed a master's degree in public policy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, received her bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Virginia, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Her master's practicum project worked with the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to explore differential prescription drug pricing for uninsured patients in Los Angeles County.
