Angela Snyder

Angie Snyder is the director of health policy and financing at the Georgia Health Policy Center. Her work focuses on applied research, policy and program evaluation, and technical assistance in program implementation for state- and community-level health projects. Her research uses both qualitative and quantitative data (including administrative databases) to study the health outcomes that result from the organization and financing of public health systems.

Her current research focuses on evaluating policy options for increasing health insurance coverage for children and the quality of care received by children enrolled in PeachCarefor Kids (Georgia’s Children’s Health Insurance Program). Recently, she has provided Medicaid and maternal health policy guidance for the Health Resources and Services Administration-funded Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center, housed at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Snyder also directs the Georgia Public Health Research and Surveillance for Hemoglobinopathies projects in partnership with the Georgia Department of Public Health. These federally funded projects focus on surveillance of and health promotion for individuals with hemoglobin disorders.

Snyder founded and is a current member of the leadership team for the Center of Excellence for Children’s Behavioral Health. Her research activities within the Center of Excellence focus on integrating data sources to provide a holistic view of Georgia’s child and adolescent behavioral health system of care and enable longitudinal tracking of individual-level child outcomes.

Snyder’s published research has appeared in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Public Health Reports, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of the American Medical Information Association, Health Services Research, JAMA Health Forum, and JAMA Pediatrics.