About CHRT

Samantha Iovan is an associate director of health policy at CHRT. She leads projects designed to improve integration of health care, public health, and social services through data quality improvement, payer alignment, and delivery system reform. Samantha also has expertise in Medicaid policy, health care payment structure, and health insurance coverage and enrollment. She works with payers, providers, and other stakeholders to better align health care and financing models through policy analysis and program evaluation.

Prior to joining CHRT, Samantha 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 disparities in 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, Samantha 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.

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