Ian Hill, MSW, MPH Senior Research Analyst The Urban Institute, Health Policy Center 2100 M Street, NW Washington DC 20037 PH: 202 261-5374 FAX: 202 223-1149 Email: ihill@ui.urban.org

Ian Hill joined the Urban Institute in April 1999 as a Senior Research Associate. He possesses over 17 years of experience directing both federal- and state-funded evaluation and technical assistance projects related to maternal and child health, Medicaid, public health, children with special health care needs, managed care, and health care financing.

At Urban, Mr. Hill is directing the qualitative components of the Institute's evaluation of the Title XXI/Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Specifically, Mr. Hill is managing the conduct of a series of site visits to a representative sample of states to explore the various implementation challenges they encounter while working to extend health care coverage to uninsured children. In addition, he will participate in various ongoing studies of strategies for improving systems of care for chronically ill and disabled children.

Prior to joining The Urban Institute, Mr. Hill was the Associate Director of Health Systems Research, Inc. (HSR), a Washington, DC-based health care research and consulting firm. During his eight-year tenure at HSR, Mr. Hill was the director of the firm's research and technical assistance projects related to maternal and child health. Specifically, he co-founded the National Policy Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs, a collaborative research effort funded by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) to study strategies for ensuring that chronically ill and disabled children receive high-quality care under managed care arrangements; directed the Maternal and Child Health Information Resource Center, a project designed to strengthen the capacity of federal, state, and local MCH programs to collect, analyze, and use data for effective program design and management; directed contracts which supported technical assistance efforts for Title V/MCH programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico in support of their efforts to build more comprehensive and effective systems of care for mothers and children; and directed a large number of federally-funded qualitative evaluations of federal and state programs, including evaluations of the impact of OBRA-89 on Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) program, the effectiveness of five Perinatal Substance Abuse Demonstration Projects, the effects of the State of Florida's Medicaid expansions for pregnant women and infants, and the impacts of alternative models of infant mortality reduction carried out under the federal Healthy Start program.

Prior to joining HSR, Mr. Hill worked for nearly six years with the National Governors' Association where he directed projects to monitor and analyze states' expansions of Medicaid for pregnant women and children. Mr. Hill began his professional career as a Presidential Management Intern for the federal government and worked for over two years at the Health Care Financing Administration's Office of Legislation and Policy. He received his masters degrees in both public administration and social work from Syracuse University.