M. Anne Powell

Public policy professional with more than 30 years of experience in state and local health and human service policy research and analysis based on knowledge of intergovernmental statutory responsibilities and resources.

Professional experience includes legislative and policy analysis, advocacy and development relating to all aspects to health, and family-centered public policy research and education of key legislative staff and mid-level management in the executive branch.

Graduate education includes MSW at the San Francisco State University, specializing in Program Planning and Administration, and nine years of education and experience conducting applied research toward a PhD in Social Welfare at University of California, Berkeley, focusing on valuing public administrative data to improve the measurement of program impact on immediate and long-term client outcomes. This policy research was conducted for state agencies (e.g., protecting the privacy of individual health data records; use of program data for research; and analyzing potential implications should race and ethnic data no longer collected).