Health Policy Center, independent research for better health policy: The Urban Institute

Brenda C. Spillman, Ph.D., a health economist and senior fellow at the Urban Institute, has 20 years of experience developing and conducting research projects on health and long term care use and spending among the elderly and on the nonelderly uninsured. Recent research has examined trends in elderly disability and implications for public and private spending, long term care financing, residential long term care alternatives, projected long term care use and costs, and informal caregiving.

She has extensive experience with a broad range of national surveys, Medicare, and Medicaid data, and with survey design and analytic oversight work. Prior to joining UI in 1998 she worked at what is now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).  She received her Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse University.