Juliana Lewis is a research scientist in the Health Care Programs department at NORC. Her work focuses on health care policy, Medicaid, maternal health, and behavioral health. She provides technical assistance to state Medicaid agencies, supports implementation and monitoring efforts, and manages complex projects to advance program goals.

Juliana currently serves as the assistant project manager for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center’s Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model Implementation & Monitoring project. She is the project director for the From Policy to Practice: Systems Efforts to Advance Maternal Health in Arkansas project and previously was the project director for the Georgia Health Initiative Progress Towards Vitality project, in which she led a 10 year retrospective analysis of systems-focused efforts to improve maternal health. She has experience conducting beneficiary interviews, environmental scans, literature reviews, and policy analysis.

Prior to joining NORC, Juliana worked as a consultant for The Lewin Group, where she supported Medicaid projects, including serving as cycle manager for the Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) project. She previously worked as a research intern at Ibis Reproductive Health and as an AmeriCorps member at StayWell Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Connecticut.