Lorenzo Moreno
Senior Researcher

Lorenzo Moreno is a senior researcher at Mathematica. His work focuses on health information technology policy and Medicare value-based purchasing initiatives. He also consults on evaluation design and implementation for international development programs.

Moreno, who has been with Mathematica since 1991, has designed and implemented numerous experimental and nonexperimental impact evaluations of health care interventions in the United States and international development programs. For the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, he is currently examining the adoption and use of electronic health records in small physician practices serving Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions, a precursor to the Federal Electronic Health Records Incentive Program; how health IT can support the patient-centered medical home concept; the evaluation of the HITECH Act; patient perceptions of the delivery of health care through electronic health records; and the Personal Health Records Choice Pilot. For the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation, he is advising on the implementation of experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluation designs of productive-development technical and investment-support assistance and vocational education programs in El Salvador. For the Harvard Graduate School of Education and The World Bank, he is advising on the design and monitoring of an evaluation of early childhood education and health in Chile.

Prior to joining Mathematica, Moreno participated in studies of population dynamics in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and several international foundations.

 

Moreno has published in internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals, including Health Affairs, the Journal of Well-Being and Social Policy, Social Science and Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Diabetes Care, the American Journal of Public Health, American Statistician, Population Studies, Demography, and Mathematical Population Studies. He also has briefed U.S. federal government officials and government officers in several Latin American countries.

 

Moreno is a visiting lecturer in public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, where he has lectured on comparative-effectiveness research policies in the United States. He has a Ph.D. in demography and population studies.

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