Andrea Thoumi MPP MSc

Andrea Thoumi, MPP MSc is Research Director, Global Health at Duke-Margolis. She directs a portfolio of projects linking health financing, provider payment and policy to advance care delivery models that improve population health. Through collaborations with Duke faculty and research staff, she has forged relationships with public and private sector senior health leaders globally to develop partnerships or projects in Brazil, England, Ghana, Peru, and Singapore.  

Prior to joining Duke, Andrea was a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution. In that role, she conducted research on alternative payment models that informed the national payment model for oncology and managed research on accountable care in global settings with collaborators in Japan, Mexico and Spain. Previously, she was an analyst at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC), Argentina, a Local Fund Agent for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. She conducted monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities to assess programmatic performance of health product procurement, supply chain management and health indicators of HIV/AIDS programs in Argentina and Belize. She has also consulted for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Pan American Health Organization and World Bank.

Andrea is a subject matter expert in health policy, health financing, global health and community health. She holds a Master of Public Policy with a concentration in economics and international development from Georgetown University, a Master of Science in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Bachelor of Arts in Community Health and International Relations from Tufts University. She has published in leading health policy journals and blogs including BMJ Global Health, Brookings Future Development, and Health Affairs.