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Jessica Pollak Kahn serves as the CMS Project Officer in the Family and Children’s Health Programs
Group, Division of Quality, Evaluation and Health Outcomes, managing three large grant programs:
Medicaid Transformation Grants, Emergency Room Diversion Grants and High-Risk Insurance Pool
Grants. The primary focus areas for her grant portfolio are quality improvement, health information
technology, and improving access to primary care services for the un- and under-insured. She has worked
at both the state and federal levels, in healthcare service delivery, program management and evaluation.
Her work has focused primarily on reproductive health, HIV/STD and disability and long-term care-with
an emphasis on quality/performance improvement and monitoring/evaluation. She has 15+ years of
experience in state and federal government, having worked domestically and internationally as both a
civil servant and contractor. She has a Masters in Public Health from Tulane School of Public Health and
served in the US Peace Corps in West Africa.