- Assistant Director
- Bruce Vavrichek
- Deputy Assistant Directors
- James Baumgardner (Health, income security, employment, and long-term modeling)
- Philip Ellis (Health)
- Unit Chiefs
- Gregory Acs (Income security and employment)
- Joyce M. Manchester (Long-Term Modeling Group)
- Division Administrative Assistant
- Ronald L. Moore
- Analysts
- Nabeel A. Alsalam (Education and labor markets)
- David Auerbach (Private health insurance, uninsured, health workforce, health care spending)
- Sarah Axeen (Research assistant)
- William J. Carrington (Income security and labor markets)
- Anna E. Cook (Prescription drugs, pharmaceutical industry)
- Molly W. Dahl (Income security, labor markets)
- Noelia J. Duchovny (Medicare payments to physicians, Medicaid, obesity, disability)
- Stuart A. Hagen (Private health insurance, uninsured, long-term care, medical malpractice, Medicaid)
- Tamara Hayford (Health policy, prescription drugs)
- Paul Jacobs (Private health insurance, uninsured)
- Jimmy Jin (Research assistant)
- Daniel J. Kao (Medicare, payments to providers)
- Noah P. Meyerson (Long-term Social Security and budget projections)
- Alexandra L. Minicozzi (Private health insurance, uninsured)
- Lyle Nelson (Medicare, State Children's Health Insurance Program, uninsured)
- Romain Parsad (Computer modeling, survey analysis)
- Charles Pineles-Mark (Model development)
- Jonathan A. Schwabish (Labor force and earnings micro-modeling)
- Michael S. Simpson (Model development)
- Julie H. Topoleski (Social Security, Medicare, long-term health micro-modeling)
- Christopher Zogby (Computer modeling, survey analysis)
Health and Human Resources Division
Telephone: (202) 226-2666
Fax: (202) 225-3149
The Health and Human Resources Division analyzes policies and programs in the areas of health (Medicare, Medicaid, public health, and private health markets), Social Security and pensions, labor markets (employment, wages, training), income assistance, education, housing, and social services. The staff perform detailed analyses of proposed legislation, develop models that underlie a number of CBO's cost estimates, prepare studies for the Congress, and assess the impact of legislative initiatives on the private sector.
Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources
Bruce Vavrichek joined CBO in 1981. Before being named Assistant Director, he was an analyst and the Deputy Assistant Director in CBO's Health and Human Resources Division, where he focused on issues related to labor economics, health economics, and public policy. Previously, he was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland, where he taught and conducted research on microeconomics and econometrics.