Shoshanna Sofaer

Dr. Shoshanna Sofaer is Managing Researcher at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Senior Scholar at the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy at the City University of New York (CUNY) and is an independent consultant. From 1998 to 2014 Dr. Sofaer was the Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs (CUNY). She previously held academic positions at George Washington University Medical Center and the UCLA School of Public Health. She completed her M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. degrees at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Her career spans the fields of health care delivery and public health. She is a nationally recognized policy expert in such diverse areas as Medicare, health insurance access and reform, disparities in maternal and infant outcomes, quality measurement, public reporting and patient and family engagement. She has studied issues in the delivery of care for infectious diseases included HIV/AIDS and TB. She has expertise in a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods, and in the translation and dissemination of findings, topics on which she has trained many other researchers. Dr. Sofaer has published over 65 peer-reviewed articles and has designed and led over 30 research and evaluation studies in her fields of expertise. She is a member of the Board of Directors of AcademyHealth, the professional society of health services and policy researchers and Public Health Solutions, the largest non-profit public health organization in New York City.