Carrie H. Colla

Carrie H. Colla is the Levy Distinguished Chair in Health Care Delivery Science and a professor in The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine. Her research portfolio focuses on value, physician payment, delivery system reforms, health insurance markets, and rural health care. Her work is aimed at improving the quality, accessibility, and cost of health care.

Dr. Colla is the former director of health analysis at CBO, where she led a team of economists to research, develop, and refine the models used to estimate the economic and budgetary effects of health policy for the Congress. Dr. Colla participated in the 2017-2018 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program, with placements in the House of Representatives and as a senior advisor to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In 2020, Dr. Colla was selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine. From 2020-2021, Dr. Colla was a member of the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, an independent federal advisory committee making recommendations to the US Secretary of Health and Human Services on payment models. Colla led the payment workgroup for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Implementing High-Quality Primary Care Committee.

Colla received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, and her PhD in health economics from the University of California, Berkeley.