Erin Fries Taylor is a Senior Vice President of Health at Mathematica, leading and managing a group of several hundred staff whose work focuses on health services research, evaluation, analytics, and survey data collection. In this role, she manages a varied and growing research portfolio across federal, philanthropic, and commercial clients; oversees strategy and business development; and helps staff develop and grow into new roles and become leaders in the organization.  She holds a Ph.D. in Health Services Organization and Policy from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health and a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan’s Ford School.

Dr. Taylor’s recent research has focused on primary care and delivery system redesign, including improving access and care coordination, promoting multipayer collaboration, and developing quality improvement capacity in primary care practices. She has helped lead several large-scale, mixed-methods evaluations of advanced primary care models for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Her other work has focused on the patient-centered medical home and medical neighborhood, access to and quality of care for publicly-insured persons, and use of learning collaboratives to improve care. In partnership with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, she has studied supports for increasing primary care capacity for quality improvement, created operational manuals on developing primary care practice facilitation programs, helped develop a practice facilitation training curriculum, and profiled leading practice facilitation programs. Throughout her work, Dr. Taylor has been particularly interested in developing strong logic models or theories of change for programs studied, providing timely formative feedback to clients so that implementation issues and other challenges faced by the programs or models can be addressed quickly, and ensuring that a study’s findings on program implementation are fully synthesized with all other aspects of an evaluation, including provider and patient survey findings and impact analyses.

Dr. Taylor has published in a variety of venues, including Health Affairs, Health Services Research, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Health Economics, Annals of Family Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Implementation Science