Carrie Graham

Carrie Graham, PhD, is the director of long-term services and supports at the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS). In this role, she oversees CHCS’ portfolio of work to improve care delivery for older adults and people with disabilities who need long-term services and supports (LTSS). Dr. Graham has been working in the field of aging research, health policy, and evaluation research for 20 years. Prior to CHCS, she was the principal investigator of several studies examining how different aspects of health reform in California have impacted health care and LTSS for seniors and people with disabilities. Most recently, she led a multi-institution evaluation of California’s efforts to integrate care for dually eligible beneficiaries in managed care delivery systems. She was recently promoted to full professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Institute for Health and Aging and holds a joint appointment at UC Berkeley in the School of Public Health. In 2018, she spent the year in Washington, DC, as a health and aging policy fellow in the Health Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means. In this role, she worked on Medicare policy including prescription drug pricing, skilled nursing facilities, post-acute care, surprise billing, and LTSS. After returning to California in 2019, she was appointed as senior policy advisor to Governor Newsom’s Master Plan for Aging.