Linda Bilheimer, Ph.D., rejoined CBO in June 2011. Earlier, from 1991 to 1999, she had been an analyst in and then a deputy assistant director of the division that she now leads. In between her times at CBO, Dr. Bilheimer was a senior program officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and, most recently, the Associate Director for Analysis and Epidemiology at the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she oversaw a group of about 70 epidemiologists, statisticians, demographers, physicians, and programmers. Before coming to CBO the first time, Dr. Bilheimer was an assistant professor of biometry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; the Director, Division of Health Statistics and Epidemiology at the Arkansas Department of health; and a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research.

Dr. Bilheimer’s recent research has focused on evaluating metrics of population health, measurement issues in analyzing health disparities, and trends in health insurance coverage. Her work has been published in Health Services Research and Health Affairs, among other journals. Linda Bilheimer earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and her B.A. in economics and economic statistics from the University of York, in the United Kingdom.