SNAC Member: Cheryl L. Damberg, Ph.D., M.P.H.
RAND Distinguished Chair in Healthcare Payment Policy, Principal Economist
RAND Corporation
Cheryl L. Damberg, Ph.D., M.P.H., is senior principal researcher and the RAND distinguished chair in health care payment policy. Her research focuses on health system redesign, alternative payment models, and performance measurement and transparency. She is an international expert in pay for performance and value-based payment reforms and has advised Congress, federal agencies, the U.K. National Health Service, and the governments of Germany and South Korea on embedding performance-based incentives into provider payments schemes. She has testified before Congress regarding how to revise Medicare physician payments to embed value-based payment elements. In 2021, Dr. Damberg was appointed to the Department of Labor's State All Payer Claims Database (APCD) Committee. She is a member of the California Healthcare Payments Database Committee, and prior to that, was appointed by Governor Newsom to serve as vice chair of the California Healthcare Payments Database Review Committee to establish a plan for California's APCD. Dr. Damberg is the principal investigator and director of RAND's Center of Excellence on Health System Performance, which is funded under a 5-year, $17.5 million center grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Damberg is the principal investigator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Star Ratings project and the Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Disenrollment Survey. Dr. Damberg previously was director of research and quality for the Pacific Business Group on Health, where she led early efforts to measure provider quality and publicly report performance results to consumers. She also was a research fellow in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Dr. Damberg holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies and a Master's degree of public health from the University of Michigan.
