Andrea Thoumi MPP, MSc

Andrea Thoumi, MPP, MSc, serves as Health Equity Policy Fellow at Duke-Margolis. In this capacity, she advances the Center’s aim to incorporate health equity through collaborations with faculty and the Center's education and research teams. Her research interests include addressing structural policies, systemic barriers, and social determinants of health that create health inequities among the Latino(x) community in the US and among women in accessing reproductive health prevention, screening, and treatment globally. She also serves as a course instructor on Bass Connections courses and is a research collaborator with LATIN-19, RADx-UP, and Women-Inspired Strategies for Healthcare. 

She brings over a decade of research and policy with subject matter expertise in health policy, health financing, global health, and health equity and management experience on CMMI, Global Fund, and USAID funded projects. Previously, she led Duke-Margolis’s global health portfolio, which focused on value-based care and payment reform globally. Focus areas included health policy in Brazil, England, Peru, and Singapore, and universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to Duke, she worked in the Brookings Institution and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), and consulted for the World Bank, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), and Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She has published in the American Journal of Managed Care, BMJ Global Health, Brookings Future Development, Health Affairs, and Journal of Oncology Practice. She holds a MSc in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Master in Public Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.