About CHRT

Samantha Iovan is an associate director of health policy at CHRT. She leads projects that aim to improve the integration of health care, public health, and social services through data quality improvement, payer alignment, and delivery system reform. Iovan also works to analyze Medicare and Medicaid policy, health care reimbursement structure, and health insurance enrollment at the local, state, and federal levels. She works with a variety of stakeholders to design and implement policy analysis and research projects to improve health equity by better aligning care and financing models.

Prior to joining CHRT, Iovan worked as a project manager in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan. There, she managed an NIH-funded health services research project focused on addressing cardiac arrest outcomes in the state of Michigan and worked to improve care coordination and person-centered care for Michigan Medicine patients.

Before joining Michigan Medicine, Iovan managed multiple population health policy projects at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policies for Action signature research program, she led data collection and analysis efforts to understand health care financing models and interventions to address super-utilizers of acute care.

Iovan holds a master’s degree in public health from Wayne State University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.