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Sunyna "Nyna" S. Williams
Senior Researcher
Nyna Williams is a senior health researcher at Mathematica whose research focuses on health care quality, transparency, and value-driven health care, and on health care consumer issues, especially consumer engagement, patient activation, and audience segmentation.
Her current research includes studies for the Minnesota Department of Health on the development of provider feedback reports and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services to evaluate the ARRA-funded comparative effectiveness research portfolio.
Before joining Mathematica in 2008, Williams spent six years at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), first as a social science research analyst and then as director of the division that conducted formative consumer research and assessment research in support of CMS communication activities. Prior to joining CMS, she had 14 years of experience conducting health behavior research while holding academic and research positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the State University of New York College at Buffalo, the Institute for Community Research in Hartford, Conn., the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and the University of Hartford. She holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Columbia University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Publications
- Health care quality, transparency, and value-driven health care
- Health care consumer issues, consumer engagement, patient activation, and audience segmentation
- Minnesota's Health Reform Initiative: Provider Peer Grouping
- Development of Physician Feedback Reports from Medicare Fee-for-Service Claims